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Strategic Visioning

Exploring the Relationship Between Governance Models in Healthcare and Health Workforce Transformation_A Systematic Review 2013

Mon, 07/01/2013 - 00:00 -- nhalper
The objective of this systematic review funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research was to examine the relationship between health system governance and workforce transformation. Particular attention was paid to how specific governance elements facilitate transformational change in the workforce to ensure the effective use of all health providers.

Continuous Quality Improvement: A Shared Governance Model That Maximizes Agent-Specific Knowledge - 2013

Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00 -- nhalper
Motivate, Innovate, Celebrate: an innovative shared governance model through the establishment of continuous quality improvement (CQI) councils was implemented across the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). The model leverages agent-specific knowledge at the point of care and provides a structure aimed at building human resources capacity and sustaining enhancements to quality and safe care delivery. Interprofessional and cross-functional teams work through the CQI councils to identify, formulate, execute and evaluate CQI initiatives.

The Public Health Chief Nursing Initiative - Building Capacity in the Public Health Nursing - 2012

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 00:00 -- nhalper
This presentation includes: 
 
• Background of the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Initiative; 
• Literature review on CNOs; 
• Development of CNO roles and responsibilities; 
• CNO Working Group recommendations; 
• Current status of CNO Initiative implementation in Ontario; 
• Factors of successful initiative implementation; and 
• Next steps.

Reducing Health Disparities: How Can Health System Structure Contribute - 2012

Thu, 03/01/2012 - 00:00 -- nhalper

This paper develops, based on Canadian experiences, a picture of what organizational form would be effective for the health sector to do its part in reducing health disparities. The purpose is to inform discusiion and analysis of how to organize Ontario's health-care system to increase the potential for reducing health disparities, in the context of any possible reorganizing of Local Health Integrated Networks (LHINs). 

International Profiles of Health Care Systems - 2012

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 00:00 -- nhalper
This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations.

Advancing High Quality, High Value Palliative Care in Ontario - 2011

Thu, 12/01/2011 - 00:00 -- nhalper
A Declaration of Partnership and Commitment to Action. In Canada, most people die as the result of an advanced chronic disease. These illnesses include heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney failure and Alzheimer’s disease.
 
These diseases may run their course over many years – requiring extended care and support from family members and health care professionals.

Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research. Improving Health Outcomes Through Evidence-Informed Care - 2011

Mon, 08/01/2011 - 00:00 -- nhalper
Patient-oriented research, the cornerstone of evidence-informed health care, refers to a continuum of research, from initial studies in humans to comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, and the integration of this research into the health care system and clinical practice.
 
The goal of patient-oriented research is to better ensure the translation of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the point of care, as well as to help the provinces and territories meet the challenge of delive

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