Best Laid Plans: When a Pandemic Complicates Hospital Funding Reform
COVID-19 threw a wrench in Ontario’s hospital funding plans. What can we learn from how funders and hospitals responded to the pandemic? How does that fit with what we know ...
Supporting Canadian Seniors Through Improved Care Systems
The rapid and severe impact of COVID-19 has shown us that the complexity of elderly care compels us to revisit the tools and practices in many continuing care facilities.
Use of Race-Based Data in the Pandemic: Let’s Move from Stigma to Solutions
As the pandemic unfolds, we see some communities left behind, where a blanketed approach has been ineffective. What may work for the majority of community settings may not be effective ...
Limits on Privately Financed Healthcare Upheld by the BC Supreme Court
On September 10, Justice Steeves of the BC Supreme Court released his decision in Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia (2020), which has significant implications for the future of Canada’s ...
Steps to Determine a Better Physician Compensation Model: An Interview with Dr. Marchildon
Fee-for-service, capitation, or salary? Maybe it doesn’t matter if you have the right governance and accountability. An interview with Dr. Marchildon explores more.
Is Australia a COVID-19 Role Model for Canada? Outcomes Alone Don’t Tell the Tale
How COVID-19 travels and its impact are still not fully understood. The science and the scientific debates are in a constant state of flux.
iKNOW Health: Helping People Navigate Complex Health Systems by Addressing Health and Digital Health Literacy
With this article we hope to draw others into a conversation about building health and digital health literacy to support people’s ability to navigate complex health systems more independently. We ...
Where Do We Go from Here? Confronting Racism in Healthcare
As Canadians we are not special or much different from our neighbours. Racism, both individual and systemic, is rampant throughout our country. And no, the health system is not the ...
COVID-19: Canada’s Response Must Now Focus on Quality
Canada must now focus on quality in its COVID-19 response by aggressively managing each process related to test-trace-isolate, treatment and prevention; building quality teams; setting targets; publicly reporting real-time on ...
Proposed Legislation Erodes Independence and Expertise of Alberta’s Healthcare Institutions
The Alberta government bill will give the minister of health control over independent partners in the healthcare system. This risks eliminating accountability, non-partisanship and objective evidence-gathering functions in the system.
