Mind the Gap
Across our healthcare system there continues to be a big gap in addressing alternate level of care (ALC) issues at the right time, by the right people. For example, almost ...
The Demise of Evidence-based Alcohol Policies in Ontario
Health practitioners and researchers have long held that government should adopt evidence-based policies in order to maximize health benefit and minimize harm. However, recently adopted alcohol policies in Ontario illustrate ...
Virtual Care – The Front Door to Patient-Centred Care
Healthcare systems across Canada are aiming to turn themselves upside down, moving from a predominantly provider-centric world to a patient-centric one. Providers and governments from coast to coast are talking ...
The Time is Now
Most seniors hope to age at home indefinitely but their complex healthcare needs often mean it isn’t possible. The newly created Ontario Health Teams create opportunities to enable better outcomes ...
Mental Health is Health
I’m gratified to see a repeated articulation of better physical and mental health as aspirational goals for Ontario. Yet, I believe it’s time to abandon the false dichotomy of this ...
Collateral Damage: The Unintended Consequences of Misguided Hospital Funding Reform
When a small number of physicians are responsible for expensive low-value care, provide them with targeted supports to make the changes required. Broad based funding cuts hurt patient access to ...
Get it Right Ontario, The Rest of Canada is Watching
In the corporate world, amalgamations and mergers are primarily driven by economies of scale and economies of scope: the drive to do things more efficiently and the ability to do ...
A Cure for Chaos? Ontario’s Health System Transformation from Street Level
Integration has always been touted as the strategic ideal to ‘fix’ healthcare. The challenge of going beyond simple ‘joined-up’ care to real integration, however, is difficult to overstate, especially in ...
Nothing Truly Valuable can be Achieved Except by the Unselfish Cooperation of Many Individuals
The digital tools to transform #ONHealth exist today if practices share a common EMR. To spread and scale in OHTs, family MDs need meso-level supports to examine workflows and deploy ...
Everything I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Caregiving
As a caregiver, I’m here to tell you that healthcare is no picnic. Governments have come and gone, and we’ve struggled mightily for decades about how to transform healthcare so ...
