Patients as Partners in Research and Quality: A Roadmap to an Effective Data Knowledge Translation
There has been growing interest in partnering with patients, caregivers and community members in research and quality improvement (QI) to bridge the gap between research, practice and lived experience.
Today’s Healthcare Photo Albums
There is an opportunity before us to transform and reset healthcare so that it can achieve its purpose of improving health.
Can the COVID-19 Pandemic Help Bring our Fragmented Health Systems Together?
Health system integration helped Lakeridge Health and its regional partners respond effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis response has, however, highlighted long-standing, systemic issues related to planning for and ...
Privatization is Not the Solution to Problems in Our Healthcare System, Healthcare Leadership Is
In a world where the best example of a private health system is in the United States, and for which the US Health System ranks dead last out of 11 ...
Privacy Community of Practice Model Reduces Duplication, Eliminates Silos and Facilitates Collaboration among OHTs
With more than 50 different OHTs operating in the province, if we do not collaborate, we risk costly duplication of efforts, wasting of resources and the creation of silos that ...
Canadian Healthcare Leaders: Impromptu Insights
Longwoods is approaching several of our leaders and asking them to share their thoughts and opinions on what is happening in the Canadian Healthcare System in the summer of 2022
How Can We Start Addressing Disparities in Patient Care and Move Toward Health Equity? A Behavioural Science Perspective
With discrimination endemic in many social systems, including our medical system, it is essential to have an understanding and respect for how these experiences shape behaviours and attitudes around healthcare, ...
Rethinking Physician Contracts: A Focus on Non-Financial Incentives
In Canada, and globally, there has been an emphasis on physician payment models and other financial incentives over the past decade to encourage health system improvement. Non-financial incentives (e.g., audit ...
Nurses: We Answer the Call
As a registered nurse, as well as someone who contracted COVID-19 early in the first wave, I have had a unique front-row seat to this pandemic, and I will carry ...
Supplying the Healthcare Front Lines: Future Pandemic Planning Can Learn Much from Purpose-Driven Companies
When the pandemic began, Canada was not ready for the challenges that awaited the healthcare system and the supply chain. No one was. With medical supplies at their highest demand, ...
