Recent measles outbreak opens conversation again with national vaccine registry C urrently each province and territory in Canada has own immunization schedule and recording system. However, with the recent measles outbreak there are more and more conversations that there should be a centralized placewhere people can look up their health and immunization records regardless of what province or territory you are from or have lived in. This recent outbreak is just one of a long list of reasons why public health advocates have spent more than two decades calling for a national immunization registry in Canada and why those calls have been renewed recently with an outbreak of measles in Saint John. Which saw a patient with measles being treated for something unrelated to measles in a Halifax hospital and because of that, all cleaners, doctors and nurses had to be tested to see if they were immune before they could return to work. This has also spilled over to others outside the hospital as concert goers and even taxi drivers have had to be tested for possible exposure to the virus and treatment. •
CVS expanding its HealthHUB concept L ike other retailers, CVS needs to figure out how to keep people coming into its stores, and health services gives consumers something they can’t buy online. That is why the company announced that it will open 1,500 HealthHUB stores by the end of 2021. The HealthHUB stores are remodeled drugstores that focus more on health services, which include expanded health clinic, with a lab for blood testing and health screenings. There are also wellness rooms for yoga and seminars, dietitians and respiratory specialists and less of non health related productions like groceries and gift related products. CVS opened its first three HealthHUB locations in Houston in February and plan to open more in Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, southern New Jersey and Tampa by the end of the year.
Apple continue to invest in new health- care features to its products A pple acquired Tueo Health; a small start-up that was developing a system to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in sleeping children. Tueo Health was developing a mobile app that worked with commercial breathing sensors to help manage asthma symptoms in children.The appwould send alerts to parents if their child’s breathing changed at night. Apple has been investing into adding more health features across its product lines, especially the Apple Watch.The latest version of the AppleWatch can perform an electrocardiogram and detect when a user falls as the company looks to add additional health applications for its customers.
When is the right time to leave the family nest? M illennials are living with their parents longer than any other generation. Most moving back in with their parents after college to help them save money. This is not a new concept, but when is it time to leave the nest? Well according to a new survey from TD Ameritrade the answer is 28 and that goes for all of the generations surveyed, including youngmillennials and even younger Gen Z respondents, as well as parents. About one-third of Gen Z members said it would be embarrassing to live at home at age 30 and up, while 44% of millennials said the same with 45% of parents agreeing that 30 was time to be living on your own. The survey did point out that the many reasons kids move back in with their parents is student debt.
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • JULY 2019
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