StewartMedicine

09/03/2025

🚨 PATIENT SAFETY ALERT 🚨

Ontario doctors are being flooded with partial lab reports from LifeLabs’ new system. Instead of one clear final report, we now get multiple fragmented versions clogging our EMR inboxes (TELUS PS Suite).

This isn’t just extra admin work — it’s a patient safety risk. When 10+ versions of the same report pile up, it becomes dangerously easy to miss what’s new and clinically urgent.

LifeLabs + TELUS Health: fix this NOW.
👉 Stop pushing partial reports or give us the choice of final reports only.
👉 TELUS: adjust your feeds — don’t leave doctors holding the bag.

Doctors weren’t consulted. Patients deserve better. We need action immediately.

📖 Full article Medical Post (gated): https://canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/doctors-arms-over-lab-report-fatigue

📑 Shareable PDF version:https://stewartmedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Personal-—-Doctors-up-in-arms-over-lab-report-fatigue-Canadian-Healthcare-Network.pdf

Ontario Medical Association FordNation Sylvia Jones Jane Philpott LifeLabs TELUS TELUS Digital

08/29/2025

FHO PLUS – MIGHT IT REDUCE FRUSTRATION?

Family Medicine in Ontario is about to change. Negotiations between the OMA and Government have generated a new “FHO Plus” model. One unintended GOOD consequence is that it may help reduce frustration for both doctors and patients.

📲 WATCH NOW

📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/-cbntplCvvE

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLnHx-sipZm

🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com//video/7522260019455282488

💻 LEARN MORE
Stewart Medicine’s FHO-Plus page: https://stewartmedicine.com/fho-plus/


Ontario Medical Association FordNation Sylvia Jones Jane Philpott

08/27/2025

FHO+ Math: Practice Size and Visit Frequency

In the FHO+ model, significantly more emphasis (and payment) is put on seeing patients in person.

As shown, the math incentivizes VOLUME of visits and unfortunately disincentivizes EFFICIENCY, DELEGATION, and SCALABILITY.

…. For better or (much more likely) worse, this is the way the Government wants it …

📲 WATCH NOW

📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/KDxsLHryp-c

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN3-6nZgjzg

🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com//video/7543390444705680645

💻 LEARN MORE
My FHO+ Webpage: https://stewartmedicine.com/fho-plus/


Ontario Medical Association FordNation Sylvia Jones Jane Philpott

08/22/2025

FHO+ Math: An Individual Patient Example

The new FHO+ model will change the way Family Doctors practice. It incentives seeing patients in person as opposed to leveraging technology and innovation.

Here is the math to illustrate this at the level of an individual patient example.

📲 WATCH NOW

📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/E7HgYiOLA0Q

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNowTJmC663

🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com//video/7541196808295288070

💻 LEARN MORE
My FHO+ Webpage: https://stewartmedicine.com/fho-plus/


Ontario Medical Association FordNation Sylvia Jones Jane Philpott

08/19/2025

OHIP Only Pays Doctor for One Issue

Here is why you often hear about doctors limiting patients to just “one issue per visit.”

It’s your government’s rules.

📲 WATCH NOW

📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/sZDFEPAhkhU

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNjiE5Lif6n

🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com//video/7540444675723758854

💻 LEARN MORE
My FHO+ Webpage: https://stewartmedicine.com/fho-plus/


Ontario Medical Association FordNation Sylvia Jones Jane Philpott

08/19/2025

Hear! Hear!

Our healthcare system will continue to fail until is appropriately addressed.

But no politician will touch this third rail …

Ontario Medical Association Sylvia Jones FordNation Jane Philpott

Canadians want a high functioning health care system. This requires (but is not limited to): appropriate funding a seamless electronic medical record strong support for Family Doctors (the back bon…

08/19/2025

FHO+ Basics – How Your Family Doctor is Paid

What’s all the buzz about the new FHO+ model and how Family Doctors in Ontario are getting paid? What has changed?

Here are the basics.

📲 WATCH NOW

📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/4koJOMBra9U

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNjVgtwijmh

🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com//video/7540416373374373126

💻 LEARN MORE
My FHO+ Webpage: https://stewartmedicine.com/fho-plus/

08/16/2025

🚨 CHANGES ARE COMING! 🚨

Starting April 2026, the Ontario Government's new FHO+ model will dramatically change the way family medicine is delivered in Ontario. (FHO-Plus info: https://stewartmedicine.com/fho-plus/ )

➡️ Up until now, I’ve built my practice around accessibility, thoroughness, and patient convenience:
✔️ Same-day / next-day appointments
✔️ Multi-issue visits (covering all your concerns in one sitting)
✔️ Secure online submissions & after-hours responses
✔️ Preventative care reminders & mass email notifications
( 📺 Summary Video Links in the comments )

But with the FHO+ changes, the system will now incentivize:
⚡ Short, fast visits (5–10 minutes each)
⚡ One-issue-per-visit approach
⚡ In-person appointments as the point of communication
⚡ Far less emails and online messaging, and especially not after-hours

👉 What does this mean for patients?
It means I’ll need to change how I practice to align with the new model.

Stay tuned. I’ll be sharing exactly what this looks like in the coming weeks and months.


Ontario Medical Association Jane Philpott FordNation Sylvia Jones

07/29/2025

Back when humans lived in caves, everyone was eating organic!!

… but only lived until 30yo …

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400.4K likes, 5678 comments. ““Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson”

07/14/2025

In case you've been missing them, I have them all posted here!

WEBPAGE: https://stewartmedicine.com/talks/

07/04/2025

WAIT LIST NOW CLOSED

The new “FHO-plus” Family Medicine in Ontario has many benefits.

But here is a foreseeable unintended consequence for those who do the math. It incentivizes keeping practices small and seeing patients more frequently.

LINK: https://stewartmedicine.com/wait-list/

Having a large, efficient practice – including encouraging patient self-management – is financially disincentivized.

Notably, this is the OPPOSITE of trying to help the millions of Ontarians who do NOT have a Family Doctor.


Ontario Medical Association Jane Philpott FordNationSylvia Jones

07/02/2025

THE NEW FHO PLUS MODEL

Family Medicine in Ontario is about to change. Negotiations between the OMA and Government have generated a new “FHO Plus” model.

I have done six short videos that dive into the details:
1 – General Summary
2 – Summary of Benefits
3 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
4 – Repurposing CCM Fees & Access Bonus
5 – How My Practice Will Change
6 – Might It Reduce Frustration?

📲 WATCH NOW
Stewart Medicine’s FHO-Plus page: https://stewartmedicine.com/fho-plus/

The "FHO plus" Model