Healthcare ideas, policies, cases and best practices

Healthcare Quarterly, in association with Longwoods Publishing, brings you this microsite to highlight important topics facing healthcare leaders today. Periodically, this site will feature new content from Healthcare Quarterly, Longwoods.com, and other editor-selected information sources. All content on this page is presented free of charge by Cancer Care Ontario.

Editorial: Ontario's Wait Time Information System: Learning from Success (PDF)
Tom Closson

The Times They Are A-Changing: What Worked and What We Learned in Deploying Ontario's Wait Time Information System (PDF)
Hugh MacLeod, Alan Hudson, Sarah Kramer and Murray Martin

Developing an Effective IM/IT Strategy (PDF)
Sarah Kramer, Joanne Walker and Will Falk

Commentary: Waiting for the Referee or Refereeing the Wait? - CCO's Role in Hosting and Deploying the Wait Time Information System in Ontario (PDF)
Terrence Sullivan

Achieving Accountability (PDF)
Sarah Kramer, Rachel Solomon and Chris Dingman

Questions & Answers: Sustaining Accountability (PDF)
Matthew Anderson and Lewis Hooper

Taking it to the Streets: Delivering on Deployment (PDF)
Dafna Carr, Vickie Welch, Trish Fabik, Nadir Hirji and Casey O'Connor

Questions & Answers: Words from the Street: Delivering on a Provincial Mandate at the Local Level (PDF)
Jenny Cockram and Keary Fulton-Wallace

Building a Sustainable System: The Making of the WTIS (PDF)
Steve Hall, Rami Thabet and Mark Dummet

Questions & Answers: Lessons Learned for Local Solutions (PDF)
Glen Kearns and Gino Picciano

An Integrated Approach to Stakeholder Engagement (PDF)
Dafna Carr, Arlene Howells, Melissa Chang, Nadir Hirji and Ann English

Commentary: Stakeholder Engagement: Thoughts from a Clinician (PDF)
Michael Marcaccio

Turning Data into Meaningful Information (PDF)
Julian Martalog and Shalu Bains

Commentary: Clinical Engagement for Performance Improvements (PDF)
Jonathan Irish

Transitioning Initial Success into Sustainable Results: The Future of the WTIS (PDF)
Sharon Pfaff, Lynn Guerriero, Julian Martalog, Lindsay Arscott, Sandra Fontaine and Joseph Laforet

Commentary: With a View Toward the Future (PDF)
Denise Zarn

White Paper: The Linked Person Record: Managing the Cancer System through Data Integration (PDF)
Darren Edery

White Paper: Investing in Health IT: A Stimulus for a Healthier Canada (PDF)
Peter Neupert

Cancer Care Ontario White Papers and Case Studies

Collaborative Projects Standards and Evidence-based Series (EBS)

The Collaborative Projects produce Standards, Evidence-based Series, and Special Reports, developed by Expert Panels or Working Groups that are convened by Cancer Care Ontario. The groups work together with the Program in Evidence-Based Care (PEBC) to gather and examine evidence on specific topics relevant to providing quality cancer care in Ontario.

1. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment and Prevention of Radionecrosis and Other Radiation-Induced Injuries in Cancer Patients (PDF)
2. Organizational Standards for Diagnostic Assessment Programs (PDF)
3. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Screening of Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer (PDF)

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