Healthcare Is Operationally Designed. It Is Relationally Experienced.
Healthcare leaders rightly devote enormous attention to the visible architecture of care: funding, staffing, regulation, technology, workflows, accountability and performance. These choices are essential. They also create the conditions in ...
Canada Must Renew Home Care Funding and It Must Prioritize Community Support Services
For the past decade, targeted federal funding has helped more Canadians receive care in their own homes. With the bilateral health agreements winding down, Ottawa now needs to decide what ...
The Future of AI in Healthcare Depends on Investments in National Data Assets
Excitement for artificial intelligence (AI) tools in healthcare soars as patients and practitioners alike welcome the prospect of newfound efficiencies.
The Overlooked Succession Risk in Primary Care
Across much of Canada, community primary care runs on physicians who own the business as well as practice the medicine. As those owners retire, failed succession can turn a clinic ...
Canada's Health AI Needs Authority Budgets Before Agents Scale
Canada is moving quickly from debating health AI to building the infrastructure that will let it operate at scale. Ottawa’s $100-million investment in the VITAL health data platform is designed ...
The Missing Skills in Healthcare Education: Intercultural Competence
Health sciences students are entering clinical practice without the intercultural skills needed to provide truly equitable care. Good intentions are not enough; students must learn about differing intercultural practices, question ...
Learning to Belong in Research: Reflections from Two Youth Advisors Participating in a CIHR Grant Application
Creating and connecting the necessary accounts was one of the first potential difficulties we encountered. The co-PI guided us through creating a ResearchNet account and obtaining a CIHR PIN, but ...
The Data is Not the Problem: Community Care Has Proven Its Case
Community support services have been telling the same story for years: demand is growing, client needs are becoming more complex and aging at home requires greater community capacity. The challenge ...
Canada’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Beneath Our Feet. It’s Our People.
If we truly want a stronger economy, a more secure nation and a better future for generations yet to come, we should judge our success not simply by what our ...
Effective Steps for Women to Advance into Healthcare Leadership Roles
Women clinicians, administrators, and public health professionals aiming for healthcare management roles often know they can lead, yet career progression in medicine can still feel like a closed loop.
