Project Management Skills At The Point of Care Can Empower Staff and Drive Change
At any given time in healthcare organizations point of care clinicians are working on quality improvement projects. Project management skills can help immensely.
Harnessing Simple Rules for System Thinking in Healthcare Transformation
The author cites three problems when stressing the importance of building innovation on an evidence foundation for health system improvements.
Why do we need a National Seniors Strategy? Because it’s 2016
Five million Canadians over 65 now represent 16 per cent of our overall population, but that number is expected to double over the next two decades. Many experts also agree ...
The Informal Chat May Not Be Enough
A Chief of Staff is told by a nursing supervisor that one of the senior physicians is making inappropriate comments about the appearance of some of the nurses on his ...
Healthcare is 24/7
Like fires, emergencies, and criminal activities, illnesses and injuries occur independently of the clock and calendar. They have to be dealt with 24/7, 365 days a year. Sadly, that fact ...
Health Quality in Canada: a cup half full
We would expect Canada, as one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with per capita health expenditures among the highest of its peer countries, and cherishing a publicly funded ...
A Perfect Storm: Get Ready for a Paradigm Shift in Health Services and Policy Research
There are major forces, worldwide, that are shifting the way in which health systems will operate, how health services will be delivered, and the role that health services and policy ...
Directions for Healthcare in Canada – The Next 3 – 5 Years: A Patient / Family / Citizen Perspective
In a more open and transparent health system we would all have a sense of the timelines of developments as important as digital access to our health records. In the ...
Let's unwind the red tape around Canadian cancer data
Access to medical data is an issue for the health system broadly but since Canada has a long history of collecting information through its cancer registries, this is a place ...
Primary Healthcare – It’s Time for Disruptive Innovation!
As a family physician, I’m used to hearing intimate details of a patient’s life experience and after thirty years in this profession, there aren’t too many things that surprise me. ...
