A Perfect Storm: Get Ready for a Paradigm Shift in Health Services and Policy Research
There are major forces, worldwide, that are shifting the way in which health systems will operate, how health services will be delivered, and the role that health services and policy ...
Directions for Healthcare in Canada – The Next 3 – 5 Years: A Patient / Family / Citizen Perspective
In a more open and transparent health system we would all have a sense of the timelines of developments as important as digital access to our health records. In the ...
Let's unwind the red tape around Canadian cancer data
Access to medical data is an issue for the health system broadly but since Canada has a long history of collecting information through its cancer registries, this is a place ...
Primary Healthcare – It’s Time for Disruptive Innovation!
As a family physician, I’m used to hearing intimate details of a patient’s life experience and after thirty years in this profession, there aren’t too many things that surprise me. ...
Future of Healthcare 2036 – An Integration of Providers, Consumers and Technology
In many respects our concept of integration today needs to be replaced by the understanding that the relationships between consumers and healthcare providers are being “democratized” by technology.
Gaps in the Mental Health Story: A Chance to Do Good
Canada’s political leaders have the once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring justice to those who live with mental illness. They can choose to mandate equitable access to evidence-based mental healthcare and supports ...
Community and Home Care, the Digital Age
When I think about the future of Canadian healthcare, I wonder, ‘What would Tommy Douglas think?’ As the father of universal healthcare and a staunch social advocate for Canadians, ...
Frailty a better gauge for healthcare funding
The Trudeau government should craft a new arrangement for health-care funding based on the precise and evidence-based concept of frailty
Time to rethink healthcare policy for the elderly
We need an integrated healthcare system for older adults that increases the quality and continuity of care.
Canadians want patient online healthcare options
Eight in 10 Canadian adults want online access to their own health information yet fewer than one in 10 currently have it, according to a new study published in HealthcarePapers.
