Breakfast with the Chiefs

For Dr. Kevin Smith good things come in threes – the rule of three in fact. During a recent Breakfast with the Chiefs hosted by Longwoods Notes, Dr. Smith referred to “the three” as an organization’s main priorities – having more can sometimes challenge focus and direction.

Healthcare Policy

The ripple effects of major policy changes are difficult to predict in advance. That is why the ability to track consequences of decisions – intended and unintended – is an important role of health services and policy research.

Healthcare Policy 10.3

Immunizing against influenza is tricky; against measles is not. Influenza comes in many constantly evolving strains, but one measles shot in childhood confers lifelong immunity. Unlike the flu, measles was wiped out. Its return represents an outbreak not of disease, but of stupidity.

Just Released! Healthcare Quarterly 21.3

Deploying integrated supply chain processes and technologies in clinical environments is a system-level strategy to support quality, safety and cost savings.

Longwoods Essays

The way we are delivering care as a health system is not working so well anymore. We are burdened with a health delivery system that hasn’t evolved all that much since Tommy Douglas invented medicare in the 1960s. But don’t take my word for it.