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TOSC (rhymes with task): provider-first, AI-driven consulting.

We map pain points, deliver quick workflow-fit AI, and scale what works—less admin, calmer days, better access. Privacy-first, vendor-agnostic. Canada-based, human-centred.

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BC builds medtech—but it ships abroad because we’re risk-averse about trying/buying at home. Patients wait; clinicians burn out. Fix it: pilot, show results, buy local.
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#BCHealth #MadeInBC @davidebybc.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social
‘Really sad’ procurement hurdles drive B.C. medtech innovations abroad
Regulatory barriers and risk-averse mindset keep homegrown technology out of Canadian hospitals
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November 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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☕ New TOSC newsletter out!
• $44.8 M for dementia research 🧠
• Canada’s data-sovereignty SOS 🔐
• Hep D now carcinogenic ⚠️
• Virtual care wins in rural BC 🚑

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Need a hand turning these insights into your next project? Ping me!

#Healthcare #Innovation #HealthTech #TOSC
☕ Dementia Dollars
Canada pours $44.8 M into dementia R&D, experts warn of U.S. cloud risks, WHO tags Hep D carcinogenic, and BC’s RTVS shows virtual-care wins for rural providers.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Overdose funding 💸, AI consent 🤖 & Keytruda wins ✅—this week’s #OtherSideOfCare newsletter is live! Real-world case study shows AI scribes saving 1.7K doc days.

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🤖 Sign Here, Then Speak?
Explore Canada’s latest healthcare wins: overdose funding, Keytruda nod, AI scribes case study, and more. Join Other Siders for insights & impact.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🚀 Public IVF, menopause mastery & at-home stem-cell transplants—Canada’s health news is 🔥 this week. Catch every insight (and a few laughs) in Other Side of Care. We turn healthcare chaos into impact—see how inside.

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☕ Fertility Freedom! 🌱
Discover BC’s first public IVF program, Western Canada’s Complex Menopause Clinic, and Windsor’s new stem cell transplant service—all in one concise, engaging newsletter. Get actionable digital…
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July 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Canada-EU pact 🤝, Alberta hospitals unleashed 🏥, AI scribes 🚀—our new edition breaks it all down and shows how we turn insight into action. Grab it here & join the care-side revolution

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#HealthNews #DigitalHealth #CanadaCare
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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🦠 Variant updates, wallet-draining healthcare costs 💸, and digital wins in Nova Scotia 📲this week's newsletter has it all!

Providers: tired of waiting for solutions? Let our team speed up your digital and operational transformation.

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💳 Swipe Right on Care?
Explore the latest in Canadian healthcare—from soaring costs and growing wait times to digital wins like Nova Scotia’s YourHealthNS platform. This edition breaks down real stories, COVID variant…
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June 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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BC ER reality check: an emergency doc blows the whistle on dangerous crowding & marathon hallway waits at TWO Fraser Health hospitals. A 2-min watch that should jolt every policymaker. Solutions, not slogans, needed NOW.

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#BCHealth #ERCrisis #PowerToPatients
B.C. doctor speaks out about conditions at 2 Fraser Health ERs
YouTube video by CBC News
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June 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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BC’s bribing U.S. providers🌧️💸, Ontario finally fixes primary care 🎯, Hope Air flies hope ✈️, and Alberta bots nuke 200 yrs of admin 🤖💥.

Read the latest “Other Side of Care” drop + see how our team makes these wins stick for real orgs 👉 buff.ly/O6kck3g

#DigitalHealth #CdnHealth #Automation
🧠 Admin Work? Not My Problem
BC woos U.S. clinicians, Ontario revamps primary care, Hope Air uplifts rural patients, and AHS bots erase 200 years of admin—discover the wins, laughs, and proven fixes.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Kelowna’s peds ward closes, a 96-yo buys a front-page ad for a GP, and an ER startup chops triage clicks from 64 ➡️ 4. 🤯 All in this week’s “Other Side of the Care.” Dive in + see how we help orgs make change stick. 💡

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🩺Paging Dr. Anyone?
This week’s newsletter tackles Canada’s primary care physician shortage, a BC pediatric ward shutdown, Ontario’s digital triage success slashing ER wait times, and a Quebec walk-in clinic’s e-booking…
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June 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Doctors call on Province for overdose prevention sites in Vancouver Island hospitals cheknews.ca/doctors-call...
Doctors call on Province for overdose prevention sites in Vancouver Island hospitals
"Politicians, don't pretend to be doctors," says the physician behind an unsanctioned overdose prevention site near Royal Jubilee Hospital.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Soup-can rehab, wage-parity wins, and data saving hips—this week’s newsletter is live! Grab the quick reads + real fixes, and ping us if your org needs help making change stick.

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#HealthTech #DigitalHealth #Canada #Newsletter
💼 Pay Raise or Praise?
Dive into real-world healthcare wins from Canada and beyond. From wage parity for New Brunswick eldercare workers and AI-powered rural rehab, to policy shake-ups in nurse practitioner funding and…
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May 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Alberta paid more than six times usual price for pain medications in $70-million import deal, according to government briefing note, by @carrietait.bsky.social @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com
Alberta paid more than six times usual price for pain medications in $70-million import deal, according to government briefing note
Briefing note indicates health authority could have reduced overall bill by ordering less medicine
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May 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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☕️ $2.1B healthcare boost? ✅
💍 Toxic jewelry warnings? Yikes! ✅
🏥 ER wait-times down 40%? Amazing! ✅

This week's edition has it all. If your org needs a digital or operational health check, we’ve got your back!

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#CanadianHealthcare #DigitalHealth #HealthcareNews #Innovation
💰 Budget Booyah!
Dive into Canada's latest healthcare buzz—Ontario's massive $2.1B primary care boost, Health Canada's urgent jewelry recall, and the digital patient portal puzzle frustrating Canadians. Plus, learn…
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May 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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May 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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BC just slashed U.S. nurse credentialing from 4 months to 4 days 🚀. Clinics flipping your “anonymous” rash data for cash 💰. AI triage zapping ER wait times ⚡.

That’s this week’s newsletter—live now!

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🚨 Privacy Sold Separately
This week's edition of The Other Side of Care dives into Canada's turbocharged recruitment of U.S. nurses, alarming trends in healthcare data privacy, Ontario’s costly reliance on private staffing…
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May 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Would it be too much to ask from the BC government to automatically generate this sort of report on ER wait times?

p.s. any guesses how I obtained this?
May 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Carney to announce new health minister next week www.healthcoalition.ca/carney-to-an... @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social

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Prime Minister Mark Carney will be moving forward on his health care agenda in the coming weeks, starting with naming a new minister of health as part of his Cabinet, which will be revealed next week.
May 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Hearing concerning reports about BC medical specialists facing significant delays in getting their travel costs covered for vital trips to the North and Interior. This can't be good for ensuring access to care in rural communities! #bchealthcare #RuralHealth #BCPolitics
May 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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PM Carney goes full boss-mode—“Canada’s not for sale—not now, not ever.”

This week’s edition covers- Wait‑time $$ pain, first NS measles case, house‑call paramedics, & a mole‑scanning app that’s faster than your Uber Eats.

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#healthcare #canada #digitalhealth #CDNHealth
💸 Wallets vs. Waitlists
Explore Canada’s healthcare sovereignty debate as PM Mark Carney declares 'not for sale,' dive into measles outbreaks, wait-time costs, and digital health innovations like Skinopathy’s mole-scanning…
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May 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The LifeLabs strike in BC isn't just about a contract – it's raising alarms about foreign ownership of vital Canadian health services & data. Are profits trumping patients & accountability? Concerns grows.
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#cdnhealth #bcpoli #privatization #healthcare
LifeLabs strike highlights risks of foreign ownership in Canadian health care - Healthy Debate
The months-long strike at British Columbia’s LifeLabs has raised questions about foreign ownership of medical services and Canadians’ health data.
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May 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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This week: Ontario’s measles surge, Yellowknife ER on the brink, virtual therapy wins, and a global cholera alert. Don’t miss our case study on reimagining primary care through team-based redesign.

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#Healthcare #Telehealth #PrimaryCare #ClinicTransformation
☕ Shots Fired, Shots Missed
Explore Canada's latest healthcare challenges: record measles cases, ER staffing shortages in Yellowknife, the rise of virtual mental health platforms, and a global cholera surge. Discover a…
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April 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Hey folks! Our latest newsletter is out—covering everything from election promises in healthcare to Quebec slashing ER wait times. Get the inside scoop on digital health trends!

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Need help navigating the digital shift? Let’s chat.

#DigitalHealth #HealthcareConsulting
🗳️ Promises, Promises.....
Explore the latest in Canadian and U.S. healthcare: election promises, Indigenous-led virtual care initiatives, global pandemic treaty developments, and a Quebec case study on reducing ER wait times…
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April 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Finally! This is such a welcome change for the doctors. Great one of many steps to reduce the administrative burden on the doctors!
doctorsofbc.bsky.social Doctors of BC @doctorsofbc.bsky.social · Apr 15
Doctors of BC has been advocating for the elimination of routine #sicknotes for more than ten years; it places an unnecessary burden on an already overburdened health care system. Read our statement: www.doctorsofbc.ca/advocacy/202...
April 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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NDP promises a doc for every Canadian by 2030. Bold move or election hype? 🤔 We dig into that, plus Ontario finally linking more hospital records and a cool case study on smarter IV pumps making meds safer.

Lots to unpack here: buff.ly/j03xXw2

#cdnpoli #cdnhealth #HealthTech #PatientSafety #NDP
🍁 Care & Election Promises
Dive into Canadian healthcare: NDP doc plan analysis, US physician trends, Ontario EMR integration, WHO pandemic drill insights & a smart IV med safety case study.
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April 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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UPCC does require looking into- Are they even adequately operational, have they contributed to reducing burden on ERs, has there been a third party/ independent review of these UPCCs? So many questions still remains unanswered..
markroseman.com Mark Roseman @markroseman.com · Apr 8
Still waiting for BC MOH to provide internal data on UPCCs requested in July.

OIPC has been involved for a month now—still no results.

Some transparency and accountability.

Planning to announce a sham "review" of UPCCs?

@josieosborne.bsky.social #bcpoli
April 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM