The Systems Approach to Primary Care: Durham Region’s Comprehensive Strategy for Solving the Current Shortage of Family Doctors
The current shortage of family doctors is one of the most important challenges in healthcare. It is estimated that 2.2 million people in Ontario do not have a family doctor ...
The Call for Human Experience in Canadian Healthcare
The Canadian healthcare system must evolve alongside global healthcare conversations. Reflections from the Elevate PX conference call for patient empowerment, a culture of transparency and trust, and incorporating patients as ...
My Arctic Journey: A Personal Discovery of What Was Always There
The vision for Nunavut is to have an Inuit-led, Inuit-operated, and Inuit-staffed health system, but in the interim, the support of southern practitioners is needed to provide care and to keep ...
Reflections on Nunavut and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit
Prior to the establishment of the Health Information Unit (HIU) in the fall of 2022, Nunavut Health did not have a single organizational unit dedicated to the effective management, utilization, ...
So, You Say You Want Patients as Partners in Research, Eh?
Patient partners have unique insights into what works and what does not work in healthcare delivery in our local community, as well as the challenges and opportunities for improvement in ...
Patients as Partners in Research and Quality: A Roadmap to an Effective Data Knowledge Translation
There has been growing interest in partnering with patients, caregivers and community members in research and quality improvement (QI) to bridge the gap between research, practice and lived experience.
Today’s Healthcare Photo Albums
There is an opportunity before us to transform and reset healthcare so that it can achieve its purpose of improving health.
Can the COVID-19 Pandemic Help Bring our Fragmented Health Systems Together?
Health system integration helped Lakeridge Health and its regional partners respond effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis response has, however, highlighted long-standing, systemic issues related to planning for and ...
Privatization is Not the Solution to Problems in Our Healthcare System, Healthcare Leadership Is
In a world where the best example of a private health system is in the United States, and for which the US Health System ranks dead last out of 11 ...
Privacy Community of Practice Model Reduces Duplication, Eliminates Silos and Facilitates Collaboration among OHTs
With more than 50 different OHTs operating in the province, if we do not collaborate, we risk costly duplication of efforts, wasting of resources and the creation of silos that ...
