Seminars
Influential Coworker Dynamics
How Social Treatment by Coworkers Impacts Healthcare Workers’ Work Attitudes and Behaviour
If You’re Not Keeping Score You’re Only Practicing: Evaluating a System-wide Lean Implementation
Lean methods date back to the Toyota Production System which was developed shortly after World War II. Of late, they are finding wide spread usage in health care. This talk provides guidelines for evaluating a comprehensive Lean program.
Value Improvement: Are There Ways to Improve Health Service Quality and Save Money?
This presentation draws on three reviews of the evidence about changes which both improve quality and save money. It shows some of the research into the costs of poor quality, which interventions are effective and their costs, and considers how local providers could make estimates of what to expect locally.
Optimal timing of clinical interventions for chronic kidney disease
Operations Research can help solve many health care challenges.
Patient-centred care: Using operations research methods to improve care for spinal cord patients
What are the factors in patient care that influence outcomes?
Leadership Trends in Canadian Academic Surgery
Who are physician leaders and how are they developed? Drs. Jugpal Arneja and Daniel Skarlicki explore these questions.
Creating Safety in an Emergency Department
Dr. Garth Hunte looks at ways to overcome uncertainty, time constraints and overcrowding to reduce preventable patient harm.
Reforming the English National Health Service
Dr. Chris Ham of The King’s Fund discusses plans to radically extend patient choice and provider competition in the NHS.
Funding Policy: ‘Pushing’ or ‘Pulling’
From many vantage points, health system funding has reached a crisis point in Canada. Watch Dr. Jason Sutherland discuss.
