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Modernizing the Health Information System

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HC-SPB_SC-DGPS <HC-SPB_SC-DGPS@hc-sc.gc.ca>	11:12 AM (12 hours ago)
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Dear Mr. Raglione:

Thank you for your e-mail of July 21, 2016, addressed to Minister Philpott, in which you shared your suggestions for modernizing the health information system.

Since 2001, the Government of Canada has supported work to digitize the health information system. To date we have invested $2.15 billion in Canada Health Infoway, which works with the provinces and territories to implement digital health innovations such as electronic medical and health records and patient portals. 

Thanks to these investments, many physicians are now able to record patient health information electronically, refer patients to specialists, order and receive laboratory and diagnostic test results, and more. Patients are also gaining easier access to their health information through the introduction of patient web portals, which can be used to access information such as laboratory and diagnostic test results from home.

Although progress has been made on digitizing the health information system, there is still work to be done, as you have indicated. Innovation and digital health are current priorities for the Government of Canada. While the administration and delivery of health care falls under provincial and territorial jurisdiction, the federal government is committed to working with the provinces and territories. Through Budget 2016, Canada Health Infoway received $50 million to support digital health innovations. This includes funding to build an e-prescribing system which will allow physicians to send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically.

As part of our commitment, federal, provincial, and territorial discussions on a new Health Accord are ongoing. In the coming months, work will continue collaboratively with the provincial and territorial Ministers to create a more adaptable, innovative, and affordable health care system for all Canadians.

Again, thank you for writing. We encourage your continued contributions toward a health care system that is efficient, connected, and patient-centered.

Sincerely, 

Strategic Policy Branch / Direction générale de la politique stratégique
Health Canada / Santé Canada
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Giving every patient a flash drive with his or her personal health information digitized upon it is not difficult or complicated and it will not cost 50 million dollars to implement the idea. Simply pass the word along to medical practitioners and ask patients to supply the small flash drives. It will save waiting time for both the patient and for medical health professionals. The same small flash drive can be used multiple times by both patient and his medical practitioner.

Your political information is noted and I will be happy to notify Canada's media of your progress forward. Thanks for replying! 

                

Are we having fun...yet? How gambling machines work.

Official notice!

  I Joseph Raglione am giving up my addiction to no-chance lottery gambling machine games. Doing this will save me money every month which I will use to pay important debts. Not doing this means I am indirectly giving back to the federal and provincial governments a large junk of my meagre pension and creating a large debt hole for myself!

 I am not alone with this emotionally and financially destructive gambling addiction! Millions of lonely elderly people with time on their hands can be seen in restaurants and Casinos across Canada putting Twenty Dollar bills into no-chance lottery machines. I write no-chance because the machines allow for only a small percentage of people to win small jack-pots in the full psychological understanding that these people will most probably, with a few stubborn exceptions, return the money into the machines. In fact insiders made a joke about the probability factor! Gamblers will most probably return their winnings sooner rather than later and to make sure this happens, the friendly ambiance created within gambling areas of restaurants and Casinos are created on purpose to sell alcohol beverages and to make it easy for gamblers to spend money.

 Addiction takes hold when a gambler quickly wins and then slowly and irrevocably returns his or her winnings into the machine in the hope of winning more money. Often a game will allow a player to win free spins and the game will not pay out more than the gambler paid in! Sometimes nothing at all is paid during the rare times free spins are awarded! When one finally does arrive...zero...no money is returned! The question is why bother gambling when there is almost zero chance of winning? The answer is: loneliness and need and a small hope to win.

  During my short career as a gambler I often heard people say they were only playing a short time to amuse themselves and they were only betting small amounts of money. I always smiled and thought to myself that the machines paid in proportion to the bet. A small bet meant a small win. It was enough to keep people playing but never enough to let them walk out with money left in their pockets. The large Jack Pot's are reserved only for large cash players. Small time players are rewarded with frequent free games and when money is awarded it is always less than the player puts in. Often, nothing at all is awarded and that is patently cruel and unfair! The government should at the very least provide a reasonable pay-out during the rare times any player, small bet or large bet, wins a free game!

  After beginning to lose a gambler will often attempt to recoup his or her losses by putting even more money into one or more machines. Some sad characters are driven close to insanity trying to win back their heavy losses. Every Lottery gambling machine game allows a quick win after money slides into the machine. The small win at the beginning of a game draws a new player deeper into the game. I recommend immediately pushing the cash-in exit button the second you win and then walk away as fast as possible. Smile on your way out! Don't expect more after your first small win because the odds are it won't happen! Jack-Pots are few and far between and winning a Jack-Pot means you spent hundreds of Dollars in the effort to win! Going broke is no fun for anybody!

 Unfortunately, walking away is not easy! When anybody walks into a gambling area of a bar or restaurant there is always a host or hostess waiting with a friendly smile and a free cup of coffee or a soft drink. The client immediately feels like a winner and remains seated past the point of zero returns.

 Life is going to become quieter for me for a while...a very short while... and I am going to catch up on my reading...Bye for now!

Joseph.

P.S. Since I wrote this article I have returned to lose more money to the lottery machines. However, I have learned that with the exception of basic repairs to the machines, the government does not put money intro the machines. Gamblers put money into the machines and then they play against each other. This has led me to the conclusion that if the gambling area is empty, don't sit down! The only person putting money into the machines will be you!

   

Dear Jeanne Lambrew:

 As a social scientist and writer living in Quebec, Canada, I feel privileged to receive your email. If you ask yourself why a Canadian is receiving emails from the U.S. government, it is because years ago I joined several thousand computer geeks to help the Obama campaign. I and millions of new computer users joined forces to remove from power a corrupt Bush family controlled U.S.government and after that we continued to send good ideas to your Democratic government.

 Sadly, even though access to your government policies and people boosted my ego, a nice donation to my non-profit foundation would have been greatly appreciated and used for the common good. Although we Canadians have a Medicare system, our last Conservative (Republican) government under prime minister Harper, was all about selling oil and reducing social policies. The horrific and polluting Athabasca Tar Sands project is today his legacy! 

  Today, I suffer from chronic back pain and old age and I am still working alone for the common good. Good ideas are wonderful and they continue to filter into the system and they allow for commerce and humanitarian socialism to co-exist. Oil is not the enemy! Burning it into the atmosphere, however, is absolutely wrong! Extracting it out of the ground at the expense of forest and nature is absolutely wrong! Drilling for oil while risking to pollute by accident and on purpose places like the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic is absolutely wrong! Global warming is absolutely wrong!

 What did Obama do right! He helped the fledgling Electric car company Tesla get started and he signed into law the affordable care act.He fought for the environment and he helped college and university students obtain affordable loans. He went after greedy banks and loan shark companies and demanded restitution.

 Not all was glory, however, as his disasters included: allowing the drilling for Oil in the Gulf of Mexico, a war in Afghanistan and a Drone program that escalated hatred! His inability to stop a genocide in Syria was obvious to the world and understandable because terminating the president of Syria meant facing off with Russian president Putin. This U.S. vs Russia stalemate allowed Syrian president Hassad to murder thousands of his own people. I hope Hillary Clinton has the capacity to continue what Obama started and can work to bring back world peace and a cleaner environment. Thanks for reading and thank you for your letter!

Signed: Joseph Raglione.

Executive Director: The world humanitarian peace and ecology movement.

P.S. Michelle Obama is a magnificent crusader for the rights of women and girls to receive a better education.

A possible way to create peace with al-Qaeda.

Dear Hillary Clinton:

 Four brave journalists and film makers risked their lives to infiltrate and contact the

al-Qaeda | Islamic militant organization ...

 After watching and listening carefully to a journalist question an al-Qaeda leader while a member of his crew filmed the interview,  I derived an important concept. Every past and present Drone strike created and continues to create more angry and vengeful terrorist members willing to retaliate against the U.S.and die in the name of Allah.  If the U.S. government wants to mitigate any further terrorist attacks from al-Qaeda and create peace with the Muslim world, it needs to apologize to the surviving relatives of Drone strikes in the countries affected,  

 Doing this will shift the onus away from war and towards peace. A good way to create this action is to drop on al-Qaeda occupied villages millions of leaflets and flyers apologizing and then explaining how the U.S. is willing to help al-Qaeda change from a militaristic organization into a political and peaceful organization working to help the people.  It is a powerful psychological response to present al-Qaeda leaders who hate the U.S. for past and present actions.  Apologizing and then offering to work with your enemy to improve the lives of average non-combatant civilians places full responsibility for any further terrorist acts directly on the terrorists. I believe you will win the November 2016 federal election, gentle Hillary Clinton. I suggest that directly afterwards you create a non-stop bombardment of peace mail in every Muslim country affected by war and do not let up until it works! The alternative is continual terrorism from psychopathic kids willing to die in the name of Allah.. 

Kiss your kids and apologize for the future!

The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently

• Published: September 27th, 2016

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By Brian Kahn

In the centuries to come, history books will likely look back on September 2016 as a major milestone for the world’s climate. At a time when atmospheric carbon dioxide is usually at its minimum, the monthly value failed to drop below 400 parts per million.

That all but ensures that 2016 will be the year that carbon dioxide officially passed the symbolic 400 ppm mark, never to return below it in our lifetimes, according to scientists.

Because carbon pollution has been increasing since the start of the Industrial Revolution and has shown no signs of abating, it was more a question of “when” rather than “if” we would cross this threshold. The inevitability doesn’t make it any less significant, though.

September is usually the month when carbon dioxide is at its lowest after a summer of plants growing and sucking it up in the northern hemisphere. As fall wears on, those plants lose their leaves, which in turn decompose, releasing the stored carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. At Mauna Loa Observatory, the world’s marquee site for monitoring carbon dioxide, there are signs that the process has begun but levels have remained above 400 ppm.

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Since the industrial revolution, humans have been altering this process by adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than plants can take up. That’s driven carbon dioxide levels higher and with it, global temperatures, along with a host of other climate change impacts.

“Is it possible that October 2016 will yield a lower monthly value than September and dip below 400 ppm? Almost impossible,” Ralph Keeling, the scientist who runs the Scripps Institute for Oceanography’s carbon dioxide monitoring program, wrote in a blog post. “Brief excursions toward lower values are still possible, but it already seems safe to conclude that we won’t be seeing a monthly value below 400 ppm this year – or ever again for the indefinite future.”

We may get a day or two reprieve in the next month, similar to August when Tropical Storm Madeline blew by Hawaii and knocked carbon dioxide below 400 ppm for a day. But otherwise, we’re living in a 400 ppm world. Even if the world stopped emitting carbon dioxide tomorrow, what has already put in the atmosphere will linger for many decades to come.

An animation showing how carbon dioxide moves around the planet.
Credit: NASA/YouTube

“At best (in that scenario), one might expect a balance in the near term and so CO2 levels probably wouldn't change much — but would start to fall off in a decade or so,” Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s chief climate scientist, said in an email. “In my opinion, we won’t ever see a month below 400 ppm.”

The carbon dioxide we’ve already committed to the atmosphere has warmed the world about 1.8°F since the start of the industrial revolution. This year, in addition to marking the start of our new 400 ppm world, is also set to be thehottest year on record. The planet has edged right up against the 1.5°C (2.7°F) warming threshold, a key metric in last year’s Paris climate agreement.

Even though there are some hopeful signs that world leaders will take actions to reduce emissions, those actions will have to happen on an accelerating timetable in order to avoid 2°C (3.6°F) of warming. That’s the level outlined by policymakers as a safe threshold for climate change. And even if the world limits warming to that benchmark, it will still likely spell doom for low-lying small island states and have serious repercussions around the world, from more extreme heat waves to droughts, coastal flooding and the extinction of many coral reefs.

It’s against this backdrop that the measurements on top of Mauna Loa take on added importance. They’re a reminder that with each passing day, we’re moving further from the climate humans have known and thrived in and closer to a more unstable future.

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Keep your brother busy planting vegetables everywhere!

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President Barack Obama <info@mail.whitehouse.gov> Unsubscribe	11:33 AM (1 hour ago)
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Dear Barack Obama: why not do what this wonderful lady did? It works to keep all your brothers and sisters busy and well fed. Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes. Ted.com One of my favorite things about launching our My Brother's Keeper initiative has been spending time with some outstanding young people from across the country. Whether it's shooting hoops with the young people in our White House Mentorship and Leadership program, or chatting over soul food with teens from New Orleans, I've gotten to know some great kids who are succeeding despite the odds. Many of them are going through the same issues I faced growing up. I was angry about not having a dad in the house -- something I didn't realize at the time. I made dumb mistakes. I didn't always follow the straight path. But I was fortunate. I had people in my life who encouraged me -- my mom, my grandparents, my teachers. I had a support system of folks who pushed me to work hard and make the most of myself. Every young person in America deserves the same opportunities I had: a world-class education, a pathway to apply for college or find a job, and a chance to lay a foundation for a career and a family. But the fact is that in America, some groups have the odds stacked against them across multiple generations. And by so many measures, the group that is facing some of the most severe challenges in the 21st century are boys and young men of color. That's why we started My Brother's Keeper: to bring together the private and public sector to ensure that all young people in America can reach their full potential. In just two years, My Brother's Keeper has come a long way. Nearly 250 communities across 50 states, 19 tribal nations, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have committed to supporting our kids from cradle to college to career. We've implemented new federal programs that are breaking down barriers to opportunity. And foundations and companies have made more than $1 billion in commitments to strengthen communities and transform lives. I'll be talking more about the progress that we've made with My Brother's Keepertonight in a conversation at North Carolina A&T State University. You can watch on ESPN's Facebook page at 10pm ET. We'll also be celebrating several major new commitments supporting MBK's goals -- like nearly 50 companies signing on to our new #FirstJob Compact, committing to develop better practices to hire disconnected youth, and the Sprint Corporation's announcement that it will provide 1 million high-school students who don’t have the Internet at home with mobile devices. If Michelle and I had a son, we’d want him to have the same thing we want for our daughters -- to grow up with a boundless sense of possibility. We'd want him to have respect for himself and for others, a commitment to hard work, and the opportunity to achieve his dreams. As Americans, that’s what we should all want for all children. President Barack Obama This email was sent to human4usbillions@gmail.com. Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy Please do not reply to this email. Contact the White House The White House • 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW • Washington, DC 20500 • 202-456-1111

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Hello Gentle Friends!

 For those of you wondering how much I earn as a Blogger, here is the absolute but sad truth. As a many year veteran Blogger and a director of  'The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement' I earn exactly > drum roll please >

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$46.83 CAD

 I am not in this for the money but it would sure take an economic burden off my shoulders if I had a few donations. For one thing I would be able to donate more money to some great non-profit organizations. My problem is that I am finicky about who advertises on this Blog. If I talk about protecting the environment I don't want an Oil company or internal combustion engine car company advertising below my article!

 I am stubborn and after years of creating Blogs to help other people, I am creating this one to help myself. If you want to help me please click on the advertising below this article. If not I don't really care but this is a good way to keep Google honest. After all they do collect millions of dollars from advertisers and they do use Bloggers to attract advertisers. Hopefully every click will send a penny into my Google account and every penny will count. Thanks for reading! 

Signed: Joseph Raglone...Executive director. The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. 

Great ideas never die, they are merely hidden in archives.

This lady is a heroine of the environment movement and deserves more recognition. If she is still alive find her and learn her wonderful ideas for growing food plants everywhere.

Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community.

http://www.ted.com/talks/pam_warhurst_how_we_can_eat_our_landscapes

Pam Warhurst | TED Speaker

Pam Warhurst cofounded Incredible Edible, an initiative in Todmorden, England dedicated to growing food locally by planting on unused land throughout the community.

Cofounder, Incredible Edible

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Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes.

 

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What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TED Salon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community.

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