Health Outcomes: Improving Canada’s Health Information Literacy
As Ontario joins several other provinces in lifting mask mandates for most indoor settings, it remains critical that health information and proper analysis of health data are at the forefront ...
Advancing Patient-Partnered Research: Empowerment, Innovation and Evolution
From the perspective of patient partners, the Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit Engaging Multi-stakeholders for Patient Oriented-research Wider Effects and Reach Awards have facilitated successful patient-partnered research projects, which, in turn, ...
Déjà vu: Seventy Years of Hallway Medicine in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-standing shortcomings and inequities in the Canadian healthcare system. While various publications have attempted to describe the root causes of these challenges, the subject is not ...
Hospitals Need to Give Front-line Workers More Flexibility to Prevent Burnout
As bleak as they are, the increasingly frequent headlines about healthcare workers getting burnt out by the COVID-19 pandemic should come as no surprise.
The Legacy of “Google Ali”
Ali Abid used to say, “There is nothing hard in this world, so long as you are willing to do it.” Was it nature or nurture that made him view ...
Excellent Long-Term Care for Canadians and Federal Legislation
COVID-19 crashed into an already broken healthcare system, exposing its many abject vulnerabilities. Of Canada’s confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths, 85% were in LTC homes— far higher than the ...
There’s an Opening for a New Sheriff in Town
We seem to be stuck in the original paradigm of medicare, i.e., hospitals and doctors. It isn’t that they aren’t still important. But they cannot continue to be at ...
Keeping It Personal: In-Person Connection for Effective Knowledge Sharing in a Virtual World
Now that a great number of people in the US and Canada have been vaccinated against COVID-19, organizations find themselves at a defining moment. The choices they make regarding if, ...
How Innovative Technology is Paving the Way for More Patient-Centric Care
The demand for virtual care grew rapidly following the onset of the pandemic. COVID-19 was the catalyst for change in a system where silos and barriers had traditionally limited the ...
Reflections in a Time of Crisis: What it Takes to Manage and Lead Integrated Systems of Care
The leadership and management for integrated systems of care requires new capabilities, ones that challenge the status quo and overcome the institutionalized siloes within professions and within organizations.
