The Real Answer to ER Overcrowding Lies in Understanding What Lies Upstream and Downstream of the Hospital
We need to solve hospital overcapacity issues and long waits for admission. Adding more beds or increasing capacity in the ER only brings temporary improvement. The real answer lies back ...
Video Visits are Now Everyday Healthcare
Virtual healthcare saves patients time — about four hours on average — and travel. About one in five said they saved more than 100 kms of travel. Patients, both rural ...
The Climate Emergency: A Role for Health Systems?
As hospitals and health networks in England declare climate emergencies, Fiona Miller asks whether it’s time for Canadian health systems to act.
Clinical Population Medicine: A Population Health Roadmap for Ontario Health Teams
The population health goals of OHTs are among their most promising features, but few healthcare organizations are doing population health or have existing capacity and expertise to take on this ...
KO eHealth & OTN: 10 years and counting
From the beginning, I was inspired by how much the people of K-OeTS cared about their communities and how skilled they were in engaging a community to be receptive to ...
Humber River Hospital Introduces a New Standard of Patient Care for Ontario and the World
Humber River Hospital CEO Barb Collins describes how the hospital is making a big step toward high-reliability healthcare thanks to their innovative clinical applications, which combine professional expertise with predictive ...
What’s Missing from the Opioid Conversation in Canada? Healthcare Workers
Drug diversion in hospitals has dire and broad implications. Diversion by caregivers often involves self-administration of all or part of a dose intended for patients. Consequences include patients receiving less ...
Let’s Increase Vaccine Accessibility for Ontario’s Youth
Children often do not receive the flu vaccine because of lack of convenience. If the flu vaccine is offered in schools, this problem is combated, thereby increasing herd immunity while ...
OHTs and Social Prescribing
Considering 10% of Ontarians live in poverty, the CEP’s Poverty Tool can be a starting point for Ontario Health Teams to address the needs of those most vulnerable to the ...
What Ontario Health Teams can learn from Ed Sheeran
As the first wave of partners begin working together towards the establishment of Ontario Health Teams, it’s imperative that we continue to stretch our thinking and stay open to novel ...
