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Breakfast with the Chiefs: AI can Change the Future of Healthcare

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

Breakfast with the Chiefs: Innovation. Inspiration. Integration featuring IFIC

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.

Insights Episode 5: Let’s Talk COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

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.

Breakfast with the Chiefs: Ontario's Access to Care Challenges from My Side of the Gurney and Computer with Dr. Chris Simpson

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.

Insights Episode 4: Pandemic Underscores Transparency in Frontline Workforce Deployment & If COVID-19 Doesn’t Force Change, What Will?

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 essentially executing its roles in a continual state of emergency –  stress and anxiety is exacerbated. Logic dictates that when practices of health workforce deployment (HWD) are transparent and accessible, frontline staff benefit.

If COVID-19 Doesn’t Force Change, What Will?

Ron Kaczorowski

COVID-19 has also performed an unexpected stress test on our economies, including that of our healthcare systems. The outcomes have, on most counts, been discouraging. Similar to the aftermath of a tsunami, the data collected from the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a significant database to develop and build the information required for change. This information is the foundation for the knowledge required for meaningful and measurable change. But change to what and why? Who will benefit from this change and who won’t? And do we really, really need to change our healthcare systems?

Breakfast with the Chiefs: Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare with Mark Britnell

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?

Insights Episode 3: A Pandemic and OHT Symbiosis through Stages of Grief and Appreciative Inquiry & Austerity and COVID-19

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 already are early reports of race-based disparities in risk of infection, and ...

Breakfast with the Chiefs: Reshaping Healthcare Services and Delivery to Meet Changing Needs with Bernard Lord

May 28, 2019. Bernard Lord, CEO, Medavie. Patient needs and expectations are changing, and our health system must adapt. Hear about reshaping healthcare management and delivery to add capacity, create efficiencies and improve the well being of Canadians.

Insights Episode 2: Governments Must Prioritize Vulnerable Groups when Re-Opening Economies & Is Virtual Care the New Norm?

Governments Must Prioritize Vulnerable Groups when Re-Opening Economies by Naomi Lightman and Lorian Hardcastle

As governments re-open their economies, policymakers must balance the interests of the broader public with those who live and work in conditions that put them at risk.

Is Virtual Care the New Norm? by Michael Green

The evidence is clear: virtual care is an effective means of care delivery.

Insights Episode 1: The Light at the End of the COVID-19 Tunnel & COVID 19: Some Observations

COVID 19: Some Observations by Janet Davidson

My point of reference for COVID-19 is SARS. I was a Toronto hospital CEO in the thick of the SARS outbreak, but I am much more removed from the COVID-19 pandemic. I am, however, struck daily by some of the similarities as well as the significant differences.

The Light at the End of the COVID-19 Tunnel by Ron Kaczorowski

If history has taught us anything, these unusual times are not a first and they will definitely not be the last. As a Stockdale optimist, I am confident that this pandemic will also pass. What is difficult to know however – even with the required self-isolation and social distancing along with proactive testing and prompt treatment for those affected – is when will we triumph over COVID-19.