The Future of Digital Enablement is Here ... Today
Ready or not, the digital future is here... today. For those of us who have been part of virtual teams for years or even decades, mandated or self-imposed work from ...
Early Lessons: Tackling a Global Crisis with a Community Response
As early as January, our emergency pandemic planning team started investigating best practice solutions to divert potentially infected, lower needs patients from the hospital, including opening a community-based testing and ...
Eileen Dahl. A Dear Friend, Colleague and World-Class Patient Co-Design Expert Extraordinaire
In the last year of her life, she provided inspiring leadership to the Hills of Headwaters Collaborative which was recently selected as one of the first Ontario Health Teams. Despite ...
Leadership is Personal
At times, my leadership journey was like living on a three-dimensional chessboard. On one level, multiple product lines and business units, a diverse workforce, and networks. On another level, shifting ...
Helping Build Ontario Together
Long-term care facilities become overburdened when insufficient emphasis is placed on appropriate (and efficient) home and community care. The result is seniors being admitted to hospitals or long-term care homes, ...
From Start to Finish: High-Quality Cancer Surgery for Canadians
Dr. Finley discusses why the Pan-Canadian Standards for Cancer Surgery were created and how they will help to improve the quality of cancer surgery in all parts of Canada
A Model of Efficiency From the Eyes of a Resident Physician
Increasing efficiency while maintaining the quality and safety of care at the level of a hospital, the Kensington Eye Institute has dramatically reduced the wait times between the initial referral ...
Groundhog Day – Escaping the Loop in Healthcare
Taking inspiration from the classic 1990s film Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray, my latest article reflects on how we can escape the loop in healthcare and (finally) shift to a ...
Does Competition have a Place in a Universal Healthcare System?
How can we maintain our high quality universal healthcare system – a pillar of our Canadian identity – for future generations in a rapidly changing environment?
The Real Answer to ER Overcrowding Lies in Understanding What Lies Upstream and Downstream of the Hospital
We need to solve hospital overcapacity issues and long waits for admission. Adding more beds or increasing capacity in the ER only brings temporary improvement. The real answer lies back ...
