Top 20 Women to Watch in 2012
I'm pleased to be included in the Women's Post Top 20 Women to Watch in 2012.
Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Frustration
One of my favourite innovators - and a world-renowned expert - Clay Christensen from Harvard - discusses the need for a common language and the need to break down silos in addressing health care's need for transformation. While he speaks about the US specifically, it...
The silver bullet – the single most important thing we can do for our health
The paradigm shift in healthcare needs to be toward a culture of Health First vs. Health Care in order to sustain our system. Watch this entertaining video and please share it with everyone you know in an effort to raise awareness. Dr. Mike Evans answers the old...
Wait times for surgery vault to record high of 19 weeks in Canada
From The Fraser Institute, Dec. 12, 2011 VANCOUVER, BC—Canadians seeking surgical or other therapeutic treatment faced a median wait time of 19.0 weeks in 2011, the longest wait time since 1993 when the Fraser Institute first began measuring wait times. The median...
Alzheimer’s and the Downward Spiral: SWHR Holds Congressional Briefing About Women and Alzheimer’s Disease
How Alzheimer's Disease affects women is an important health issue. I am proud to be raising awareness and funds for this issue through my roles as Honourary Chair of the Sex, Aging & Memory conference and as Chair of Women's Brain Health Initiative. The Women's...
National Post editorial board: The status quo won’t fix health care
Most of the Canadian political class will acknowledge, at least in private, that the current one-tier health-care status quo cannot be sustained indefinitely. So long as health-care spending continues to grow faster than the combined rate of inflation and population...
Collaborative Health Care – 10 steps to a productive 7 minutes
Research shows that physicians have about 7 minutes to spend with each of the many patients they see every day. Planning ahead ensures the time is spent wisely and leads to the best care. The article I wrote for Canadian Health & Lifestyle Magazine's Winter...
How Smartphone Apps and Social Networks Will Revolutionize Medicine
A consumer revolution, powered by technology, will drive health care transformation. Read this article at Forbes.com, "How Smartphone Apps and Social Networks Will Revolutionize Medicine".
Lack of electronic records holds health-care system back: CMA president
Article posted on iPolitics.ca Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 4:07 pm by Emily Senger following the Healthcare Outlook 2012 panel held on November 29, 2011. TORONTO — For all the advancements in medical technology, Canada is mired in ancient times when it comes to simple data...
We Need Health Care 2.0
Our nation is often defined by our passion for hockey, our taste for beer, and our universal health care system. There is little question that Canada's hockey prowess endures and our beer remains cold. But our health care system? Overburdened, and totally ill-prepared...
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