Here André Picard offers a great approach to the issues facing our health care system. On Thursday, André Picard, The Globe and Mail’s health reporter, won the Hy Solomon Award for public policy. Here is an excerpt from his acceptance speech:
Mantras are short phrases designed to focus the mind. Here are five of my mantras for health-care reform:
Medicine is the easy part of health care.
"The goal of Clean Care is Safer Care is to ensure that infection control is acknowledged universally as a solid and essential basis towards patient safety and supports the reduction of health care-associated infections and their consequences."
Patients who question medical test results or diagnoses from their doctors should be "unafraid" to ask for a second opinion, because mistakes, although uncommon, can be made, according to the Canadian Medical Association.
"Imagine an innovative approach to make our health and health care better using information or communications technologies – what’s your idea?"
Canada Health Infoway is holding an exciting challenge for those interested in transforming health care in Canada through information and communications technologies.
The question is "how would you enhance access to services, improve quality of care delivery or make the system more efficient?"
From developing a user guide for navigating the healthcare system to participating in research supporting patient-engaged governance, a national patient group is taking flight.
The Patients’ Association of Canada (PAC), which is 700-plus members strong, celebrated its official launch Feb. 15 with a conference in Toronto.
Barb Farlow, a patient advocate in Ontario, mentions a debate going on in that province. Here is an excerpt from a legal blog called Legal Feeds:
Governments often slip little-noticed and seemingly unrelated items into their spending plans, but just a single line in the recent provincial budget measures bill is causing a split within Ontario’s medical community.
Physicians may choose riskier treatment for themselves than they'd recommend for their patients, according to a study that highlights a need for candid discussions about patients' preferences.
Catch PAC president Sholom Glouberman on The Agenda Monday at 8 & 11 PM on TVO. Don't miss it!