Top 20 Women Of The Year by Women’s Post
I was very honoured to have been selected as one of Women's Post Canada's Most Notable Women of 2009. Top 20 Women
Dianne on her family, career and beating the odds
Meet Dianne Carmichael, mother, daughter, Baby Boomer, and member of the Sandwich Generation. Profile in Women's Post (pdf)
Securing a Future for Healthcare
Historically, health care evolved from an acute-based system and we are now seeing a paradigm shift to a patient-centred model. Going forward we need to focus on engagement, prevention, wellness and self-management of chronic disease. Securing Healthcare National...
Lack of electronic records holds health-care system back: CMA president
In November 2011, Dr. John Haggie told a Toronto audience at The Economic Club of Canada’s annual health care outlook panel that establishing electronic medical records is the one of the best things Canada could do to improve its health-care system. Read the article...
Leader branding becoming as important as product branding
Financial Post Best Managed Denise Deveau, November 12, 2012 The expression “it’s business, not personal,” is slowly becoming extinct in the lexicon of Corporate Canada. In a media-savvy, 21st century workplace in which staff hear horror stories of excessive salaries,...
Medical apps that promote patient self-care could ease burden on health care
When Sara Nita's son Marcus was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last fall, she began keeping a written log of his multiple daily blood-sugar readings. But she soon started casting around for a way to keep an electronic record, something she could enter into her...
What is the business of health care?
With many large, older, established companies filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, what lessons can be learned for the business of health care? Whereas doctors and hospitals focus on producing health care, what people really want is health. Health care is just a means to...
Why hospitals don’t deliver great service
Patient-centred care and positive patient experiences at all touch points, is a cultural paradigm shift requiring a systematic change management model that must include the patients' voice. Hospitals try to deliver the best health outcomes. But many also aim to...
Woman sues surgeon, hospital over mistaken mastectomy
In 2010, Laurie Johnston decided to sue her surgeon and the Windsor hospital where the surgery took place, for removing her healthy breast in the mistaken belief it was cancerous. The suit alleges Lauire had her left breast and six lymph nodes removed based on her...
Patients increasingly seeking control of their own health records
In 2009, Kevin Leonard, PhD, opened the jam-packed One Patient, One Record symposium he staged in Toronto by saying he yearns for the day when the 19 specialists who treat his Crohn’s disease can consolidate their silos of separate data on him into a single electronic...
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