A former data analyst for Nova Scotia's health authority says his contract wasn't extended after he raised concerns about what he calls "corrupted data" being used for a new online emergency department wait-time prediction tool. Nova Scotia Health denies this and stands by the prediction tool.
Although relieved to no longer be one of the more than 150,000 names on the Need a Family Practice Registry, Shira Lurie says the worry hasn't gone away.
Officials with Nova Scotia Health believe they’ve identified 17,500 people who can be removed from the province’s need-a-family-practice registry, and now they’re calling them to confirm.