CIHI’s Health System Capacity Planning Tool
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has developed the interactive Excel-based Health System Capacity Planning Tool. The tool is designed to allow decision-makers to create their own scenarios to ...
Integrating Ontario’s Healthcare System: A Point of View
Ontario is clearly lagging behind any shift to population health management based on integration of care delivery. We can no longer view healthcare transformation as ‘stopping hallway medicine’ or delisting ...
Imperative for Healthcare: To Lead with Outcomes & Value
Canada has a history of finding solutions to big problems — from inventing the first working telephone and discovering insulin, to building the first cardiac pacemaker. In the 1960s, inspired ...
Comparison of Wait Times for New Patients Between the Private Sector and United States Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers
How do wait times for outpatient appointments compare between United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and private sector hospitals?
Unleashing Value – KPMG Report
In the face of unprecedented pressures on demand, expectations and resources, governments around the world are rethinking how they deliver health and human services including social care, family care and ...
Hallway Health Care:A System Under Strain
The first Interim Report from the Ontario Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine
Bluewater Health provides exemplary access to care through a patient-centered culture
Bluewater Health used this philosophy to strengthen the organization using what they were already doing successfully as a foundation for change and hiring new staff with appreciative qualities. Now it ...
Seamless Transitions: Hospital to Home
Transition planning is most effective when hospitals, community providers and primary care physicians work together to coordinate care for patients.
Pharmacare: Lost in Translation: July 2016
In many ways, national pharmacare remains an opaque concept in Canada. The mechanisms used vary, with some jurisdictions offering access to medications in a fully publicly funded and administered system, ...
