How Do We Nudge Patients to Follow Through with Appointments? 4 Behavioral Strategies
No-shows have been a long-standing problem, with anywhere from 23-43% of patients routinely failing to show up for their scheduled medical appointments. Healthcare professionals and leaders need no convincing that ...
Black Nurse Leaders in the Canadian Healthcare System
This article highlights a growing gap in the Canadian nursing workforce, specifically in nursing leadership. Black nurses are significantly underrepresented in nursing and even more so as nurse leaders. This ...
Supporting Primary Care Involvement in COVID-19 Vaccinations
Involving primary care providers should be central to all COVID-19 vaccination program initiatives with intentional engagement and co-design from inception. We acknowledge that implementing the COVID-19 vaccine has been a ...
Do You Know Who Your Community-Based Specialists Are? An Interview with Tommy Gerschman
In this interview, @DoctorTommy talks about the need to advocate for hospital and health authority awareness of the value-added contributions community-based specialists provide to patients and the healthcare system.
The Power of Collaboration
As the second wave of COVID-19 loomed in the fall of 2020, hospitals in Ottawa, ON, and the surrounding areas were all short-staffed. Where and how would they find the ...
Timely Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Healthcare Matters Now More Than Ever
COVID-19 has amplified what was already a growing problem – children struggling with their mental health and inadequate access to specialized mental healthcare, especially physician-delivered care.
A Perspective on Health Science Education: Challenges and Opportunities
The pandemic has exposed the inadequate standards of care – particularly in long-term care facilities – and the inadequate numbers of healthcare providers in the system, and it has served ...
Living Our Lessons: The Roadmap for the Healthcare System of Tomorrow
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the urgency to fix the fundamental pain points in our system and implement a vision for the future of healthcare that meets patients’ needs. It ...
Policy Barriers to Obesity Care
When we look at health policy barriers in general, much revolves around the failure to fully recognise and accept obesity as a chronic disease in its own right. Thus, the ...
Canada’s Aging Population: Who Pays and Who Acts?
There is a common misconception that if the government pays for a service, whether federal, provincial or municipal, then it is free to Canadians. It is not!
