Ontario needs innovation in cost-effective care that improves patient outcomes and experience. Health TAPESTRY meets all of these requirements. If its evaluation remains positive, expect the program to scale across the province…
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‘Open for Business’ without strong public health is risky business
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Vaccination: A shared Responsibility
Our laws require adults to wear helmets while riding a motorcycle. How on earth is it that we do not protect our most vulnerable from completely preventable infectious diseases? Mandatory vaccination must…
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LaMal: Excellent universal care at an expensive cost
21% of Swiss citizens and 10% of Canadians avoid medically necessary care for economic reasons, suggesting that progressive taxation is the most equitable method to fund health care.
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OHIP billings need to be transparent
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Future of Ontario medicare depends on scrutiny of medical testing
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Swedish health care: An expensive publicly funded model
Many Canadians suggest we should look to Sweden for lessons in health care delivery. However, paying the same as Swedes do for health services would increase Ontario's deficit by more than $40…
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Competition between public and private care will not cure hallway medicine
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Male FPs out-earn women FPs annually by over 30%: Ontario data
As the proportion of women in medicine continues to rise, the pressure to examine, understand and potentially address the pay gap will also rise rapidly, writes Dr. Boris Kralj.
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Ontario health reform strategy ‘vindictive’ and a failure at effective change management