A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda

Author : A. Scott Carson,Kim Richard Nossal
Publisher : Queen's Policy Studies
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553395317

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A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda by A. Scott Carson,Kim Richard Nossal Pdf

This collection is the result of a 2016 national leaders conference sponsored by Queen’s University to explore the prospects for a pan-Canadian healthcare innovation strategy. The conference themes were inspired by the 2015 report of the federally commissioned Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, led by David Naylor, which examined how the federal government could support innovation. A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda features original commissioned chapters from academics and healthcare leaders addressing a range of issues such as the meaning of healthcare innovation, how a national healthcare agency and investment fund could be governed, the need for big data and evidence, adding value through Canadian supply-chain management, overcoming regulatory barriers to innovation, policy innovations for indigenous, military and elderly populations, the role of medical professions in promoting innovation, education, and the development of medical innovators. The Canadian healthcare system is so fragmented that any thought of a system-wide strategy for healthcare innovation is considered a far-distant ideal at best. This book presents a contrary view, outlining an agenda for Canadian healthcare innovation. It shows that Canada does indeed have the building blocks for innovation, and concludes that the time to act is now.

Author : A. Scott Carson,Kim Richard Nossal
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553395300

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A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda by A. Scott Carson,Kim Richard Nossal Pdf

This collection is the result of a 2016 national leaders conference sponsored by Queen’s University to explore the prospects for a pan-Canadian healthcare innovation strategy. The conference themes were inspired by the 2015 report of the federally commissioned Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, led by David Naylor, which examined how the federal government could support innovation. A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda features original commissioned chapters from academics and healthcare leaders addressing a range of issues such as the meaning of healthcare innovation, how a national healthcare agency and investment fund could be governed, the need for big data and evidence, adding value through Canadian supply-chain management, overcoming regulatory barriers to innovation, policy innovations for indigenous, military and elderly populations, the role of medical professions in promoting innovation, education, and the development of medical innovators. The Canadian healthcare system is so fragmented that any thought of a system-wide strategy for healthcare innovation is considered a far-distant ideal at best. This book presents a contrary view, outlining an agenda for Canadian healthcare innovation. It shows that Canada does indeed have the building blocks for innovation, and concludes that the time to act is now.

Author : A. Scott Carson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781553395041

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Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy by A. Scott Carson Pdf

Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehensive and coherent whole. Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy is a collection of ten policy research essays by leading Canadian and international scholars who address three important questions. First, if Canada had a unifying strategy, how would the country measure its success and monitor its performance? Second, who are the agents of change to bring about a Canadian system-wide strategy? Third, how can the jurisdictional realities of Canada’s political system be managed to bring about strategic reform? The final section in the volume explores ways to overcome the barriers and impediments that preoccupy Canadians’ concerns about healthcare. A companion volume to Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians, the contributors to Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy turn to the critical importance of how necessary healthcare changes can be best implemented.

Author : A. Scott Carson,Jeffrey Dixon,Kim Richard Nossal
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781553394402

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Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians by A. Scott Carson,Jeffrey Dixon,Kim Richard Nossal Pdf

While Canadians are proud of their healthcare system, the reality is that it is fragmented and disorganized. Instead of a pan-Canadian system, it is a "system of systems" - thirteen provincial and territorial systems and a federal system. As a result, Canadian healthcare has not only become one of the costliest in the world, but is falling well behind many developed countries in terms of quality. Canadians increasingly realize that their healthcare system is no longer fiscally sustainable, yet change remains elusive. The standard claim is that Canada's multijurisdictional approach makes system-wide reform nearly impossible. Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians disputes this reasoning, making the case for a comprehensive, system-wide, made-in-Canada healthcare strategy. It looks at the mechanics of change and suggests ways in which the various participants in the system - governments, healthcare professionals, the private sector, and patients - can work collaboratively to transform a second-rate system. Addressing critical issues of health human resources, electronic health records, integrated care, and pharmacare, Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians shows how a system-wide strategic approach to this crucial policy area can make a difference in Canada’s healthcare system in the future.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Federal aid to research
ISBN : OCLC:797155712

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A Canadian Innovation Agenda for the Twenty-first Century by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology Pdf

Author : Keith Banting,Jon Medow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781553393290

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Making EI Work by Keith Banting,Jon Medow Pdf

Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Making EI Work is the result of a panel of distinguished scholars gathered by the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, and future directions of EI. The authors identify the strengths and weaknesses of the system, and consider how it could be improved to better and more fairly support those in need. They make suggestions for facilitating a more efficient Canadian labour market, and meeting the human capital requirements of a dynamic economy for the present and the foreseeable future. The chapters that comprise Making EI Work informed the task force's final recommendations, and form an engaging dialogue that makes the case for, and defines the parameters of, a reformed support system for Canada's unemployed. Contributors include Ken Battle (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), Robin Boadway (Queen's University), Allison Bramwell (University of Toronto), Sujit Choudhry (New York University School of Law), Kathleen M. Day (University of Ottawa), Ross Finnie (University of Ottawa), Jean-Denis Garon (Queen's University), David Gray (University of Ottawa), Morley Gunderson (University of Toronto), Ian Irvine (Concordia University), Stephen Jones (McMaster University), Thomas R. Klassen (York University), Michael Mendelson (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), Alain Noël (Université de Montréal), Michael Pal (University of Toronto Faculty of Law), W. Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia), William Scarth (McMaster University), Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa), Leah F. Vosko (York University), Stanley L. Winer (Carleton University), Donna E. Wood (University of Victoria), and Yan Zhang (Statistics Canada).

Author : Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Public Administration,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies
Publisher : McGill Queens Univ
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0889116393

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Health Care by Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Public Administration,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies Pdf

Health Care addresses pressing economic challenges that Canada's health care system is facing and explores innovations and initiatives in program design and delivery that enhance the quality and affordability of health care.

Author : Charles M. Beach,Richard Chaykowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:805511389

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Health Services Restructuring in Canada by Charles M. Beach,Richard Chaykowski Pdf

The recent Chaoulli Supreme Court decision and health care proposals by Quebec and Alberta have led to renewed debate on how best to restructure the Canadian health care system. This volume offers a timely analysis of access and wait-times, alternative modes of health care delivery, and funding methods from the perspective of evidence-based policy making.

Author : Ross Finnie
Publisher : Queen's Policy Studies Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 1553392779

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Pursuing Higher Education in Canada by Ross Finnie Pdf

A helpful study of pertinent issues relating to university education.

Author : Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada,Roy J. Romanow
Publisher : Saskatoon : Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : UIUC:30112059382330

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Building on Values by Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada,Roy J. Romanow Pdf

In April 2001, the Prime Minister established the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. Its mandate was to review medicare, engage Canadians in a national dialogue on its future, and make recommendations to enhance the system's quality and sustainability. The 47 recommendations in this report outline actions that must be taken in 10 critical areas, starting by renewing the foundations of medicare and considering Canada's role in improving health around the world.

Author : Ian Douglas Clark
Publisher : Queen's School of Policy Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 1553392655

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Academic Transformation by Ian Douglas Clark Pdf

The large scale publicly funded system of postsecondary education in Ontario developed in the 1960s has been largely successful in fulfilling important societal needs in the areas of education, human resource development, and research. Existing approaches, however, are unlikely to be sufficient to address the challenges of the coming decade. Academic Transformation: The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario examines the developments that are re-shaping the province's post-secondary system, including higher enrollment, further development of a knowledge-based economy, increased demands for research focused on competitiveness and productivity, and Ontario's transition to a multicultural, internationally connected, urban, and aged society. Universities and colleges are also adjusting to internal changes in the composition of the student body and staff, faculty work profiles, and funding arrangements. The authors consider possible changes in the system's structure, policy, and governance that may be helpful in dealing with the anticipated changes in societal needs, and expectations related to post-secondary education.

Author : George Fallis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781553393337

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Rethinking Higher Education by George Fallis Pdf

The basic structure of universities and colleges in Ontario - one focused primarily on expansion and greater access and put in place in the 1960s - is outdated. The system is now large enough, the eligible age group for entering post-secondary studies is shrinking, and participation rates are as high as they are likely to go. In Rethinking Higher Education, George Fallis argues that policy-makers should shift their attention away from growth and towards improving and diversifying the range of programs available and creating new means of program delivery. He calls for increases in honours undergraduate programs and polytechnic education and envisions a group of research-intensive universities responsible for doctoral education. The existing design, Fallis contends, neglects the specific needs of graduate education and research, layering it on top of a system designed for undergraduate education. In addition, there is disconnection between Ontario's Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities and the research missions of the universities and colleges themselves. Fallis recommends that Ontario establish a system for documenting and assessing the quality of research published at universities. Thought-provoking and thoroughly argued, Rethinking Higher Education provides a detailed design for higher education in the twenty-first century.

Author : Gladys Osmond
Publisher : Queen's School of Policy Studies
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89100590934

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Dear Gladys by Gladys Osmond Pdf

Gladys Osmond wrote her first letter to a Canadian soldier serving overseas in 1983. She went on to found the Granny Brigade, a group that has written to countless Canadian soldiers, sailors, and airforce personnel serving in all parts of the world. The moral support Osmond provides to Canadian military personnel has been honoured formally on several occasions: in 2006 she was awarded the Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service, presented to her in Newfoundland by chief of the Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier. However, no formal honour, Osmond insists, can compare to the notes of sincere personal gratitude from the individuals and families to whom she has written. Now well into her eighties, Osmond's continued correspondence with her extended military family occupies her from dawn until long after dark.Dear Gladysprovides first-hand insight into the lives and duties of Canadians in conflicts past and present.

Author : John Biles
Publisher : Queen's Policy Studies Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1553392906

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Integration and Inclusion of Newcomers and Minorities Across Canada by John Biles Pdf

This volume explores the activities of provincial and municipal governments along with a range of other important local societal players.

Author : G. Bruce Doern,Peter W. B. Phillips,David Castle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Innovations
ISBN : 9780773547247

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Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy by G. Bruce Doern,Peter W. B. Phillips,David Castle Pdf

Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet and information. The authors scrutinize the different ways in which federal and provincial policies have impacted both levels of government, including how such policies impact on Canada's natural resources. They also study key government departments and agencies involved with science, technology, and innovation to show how these organizations function increasingly in networks and partnerships, as Canada seeks to keep up and lead in a highly competitive global system. The book also looks at numerous realms of technology across Canada in universities, business, and government and various efforts to analyze biotechnology, genomics, and the Internet, as well as earlier technologies such as nuclear reactors, and satellite technology. The authors assess whether a science-and-technology-centred innovation economy and society has been established in Canada - one that achieves a balance between commercial and social objectives, including the delivery of public goods and supporting values related to redistribution, fairness, and community and citizen empowerment. Probing the nature of science advice across prime ministerial eras, including recent concerns over the Harper government's claimed muzzling of scientists in an age of attack politics, Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy provides essential information for academics and practitioners in business and government in this crucial and complex field.