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Dr. Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer – International  for HIMSS on Health Outside the Hospital: Addressing Our Changing Healthcare Needs in the Age of COVID-19. This insightful discussion will demonstrate the increased demand for home and community care brought on by the pandemic, and the positive impacts of integrated health models that are helping alleviate pressures on hospitals and maint...

Canada’s Aging Population: Who Pays and Who Acts?  Don Drummond and Duncan Sinclair   There is a common misconception that if the government pays for a service, whether federal, provincial or municipal, then it is free to Canadians. It is not! The people of Canada will pay: as taxpayers, through premiums paid for LTC insurance, directly out of their savings and their families’ earned income and as...

Comprehensive Care and Prevention of Diabetes in Ontario: The Need of the Hour  Harpreet Bajaj, Kimberley Hanson, David Kaplan, Terrence Sullivan and Catharine Whiteside As the COVID-19 pandemic forges through the globe, clear evidence points to worse outcomes experienced by persons with chronic conditions. Coupled with susceptibility to infection and commonly associated risk factors such as hyper...

Anti-Mask Protests and Racism: What Is the Link?  Umair Majid, Judy Truong, Aghna Wasim and Matthew Truong In the past several months, we have heard, experienced or read about individuals who refuse to wear a mask and direct racist comments toward customers and members of staff in public places. We see that racism and discrimination are part of the rhetoric inherent in anti-mask sentiments. Howeve...

Diabetes Care and Management for Ontario on November 12, 2020. Addressing Chronic Disease to Recover from COVID-19 with Kimberley Hanson, Executive Director, Federal Affairs, Diabetes Canada, gives an overview of the current situation of care for people living with or at risk of living with diabetes and what’s next for management and delivery of care for diabetes in Ontario.

Optimizing Human Resource Management in the Time of COVID-19 at York Region Rina Lamba and Julia Roitenberg When the pandemic started in February 2020, York Region was faced with constantly changing conditions and minimal data to help guide decision making. We were challenged to make informed decisions with limited information as we redeployed our staff of 500 to support the COVID-19 response. The...

COVID-19: Five Learnings that Could Transform Ontario Healthcare  Gary Sims, Mike Lapaine, Dave Edwards and Pam McLaughlin It is clear that the various organizations within the healthcare system in Ontario have cooperated to manage the challenge of COVID-19 and – together with the public – avoided the high volumes of cases seen in other areas of the world in the early weeks of the pandemic. We exp...

October 21, 2020. Rick Glazier, Scientific Director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institute of Health Research updates us on strategic directions for CIHR-IHSPR and how they are being amplified and modified by the pandemic.

Best Laid Plans: When a Pandemic Complicates Hospital Funding Reform  Karen S. Palmer and Noah Ivers COVID-19 has created historic financial pressures for Canadian hospitals. When the pandemic escalated in March 2020, hospitals everywhere ramped up in heroic and unprecedented ways in anticipation of a sharp rise in demand for services. Governments – both provincial and federal – increased health s...

September 16, 2020. Get an update from Matthew Anderson President and CEO, Ontario Health and Helen Angus Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health, Ontario

Staffing for Nursing Home Care: COVID-19 and Beyond Pat Armstrong, Charlene Harrington and Margaret McGregor As we search for ways to deal with COVID-19 in nursing homes, and to prevent such tragedies in the future, it seems obvious that we need to begin with staffing. British Columbia began its efforts to control the spread of the virus in these homes; Ontario called in the military; and Quebec w...

June 23, 2020. Jennifer Zelmer, President & CEO of CFHI explores this evolving 'now normal,' addressing vulnerabilities the pandemic has highlighted and opportunities to move towards better care, closer to home and community...now and beyond.

Where Do We Go from Here? Confronting Racism in Healthcare Adnaan Bhyat As Canadians we are not special or much different from our neighbours. Racism, both individual and systemic, is rampant throughout our country. And no, the health system is not the altruistic, infallible institution we believe it to be.

March 4, 2020. Susan Fitzpatrick, former Interim CEO, Ontario Health in conversation with Brian Golden, Vice-Dean, MBA Programs; Sandra Rotman Chair in Health Sector Strategy at The University of Toronto engages Susan in a discussion about her journey through Health Integration in Ontario.

iKNOW Health: Helping People Navigate Complex Health Systems by Addressing Health and Digital Health Literacy  Jo-Louise Huq, Troy Stooke, Tracy Wasylak and Patty Wickson Navigation is a challenge in healthcare, and is increasingly becoming so as information, resources, digital tools and even providers grow in numbers and change rapidly. Navigation involves being able to find information and servi...

January 15, 2020. Chris Power, CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute. CPSI convened a National Patient Safety Consortium to deliver a pan-Canadian patient safety action plan in an effort to drive real change in patient safety. It could not succeed if it were seen to be simply one organization’s agenda, it required commitment from more than 40 organizations, governments, professional and patient g...

December 5, 2019. Dr. Hartley Stern, Executive Director and CEO, Canadian Medical Protective Association, how greater collaboration can improve the safety of care for all Canadians.

We Are All in This Together Carol Annett Different circumstances call for different leadership styles. In the turbulent, bewildering and ambiguous world of COVID-19, clear, confident, decisive and military-style leadership was the right and necessary response to navigate uncharted waters.  But the circumstances have now changed, and a different leadership style is in order – one that is more flexi...

November 26, 2019. The transformative impact of AI will be felt in making healthcare more affordable and accessible not just more effective. With Dr. Kaveh Safavi, Senior Managing Director, Global Health Practice, Accenture

October 8, 2019. Co-designing for Health and Wellbeing with Individuals and Communities featuring speakers Eileen Dahl, Patient Partner, Dr. Toni Dedeu, Interim CEO and Director, IFIC, Walter P. Wodchis, Professor, IHPME and Research Chair, IESIBE, Trillium Health Partners and Jodeme Goldhar, Executive Lead, Strategy and Innovation, The Change Foundation.

Let’s Talk COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Mobeen Ahmad, Judy Truong and Umair Majid With the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, healthcare providers must ensure widespread uptake of vaccination. This podcast explores the factors that might encourage COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

September 26, 2019. Dr. Chris Simpson, Former President, Canadian Medical Association speaks about how modern technology can help improve wait times and access to care across the care continuum.

Pandemic Underscores Transparency in Frontline Workforce Deployment Shawn Drake, Tila Smith, and John King Working on healthcare’s frontlines is, at best, dynamic and uncertain, and at worst, tumultuous. Under normal circumstances, methodologies behind planning, scheduling and deploying frontline workforce are highly emotive for the affected staff. During a pandemic – when the health workforce is...

June 4, 2019. By 2030, the world will be short of approximately 15 million health workers - a fifth of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going. Harnessing technology, how can we reimagine new models of care and workforce agility in ways that drive economic and human prosperity?

A Pandemic and OHT Symbiosis through Stages of Grief and Appreciative Inquiry by Barbara Heatley-O’Neil Healthcare leaders were recently challenged to create Ontario Health Teams (OHTs). In the midst of that game-changing work, came the COVID-19 pandemic.   Austerity and COVID-19 by Dr. Kwame McKenzie We will see the social determinants of health play out in the COVID-19 pandemic. In the US, there...