With prices changing so rapidly, and new products being introduced so frequently, how can we make evidence-informed decisions about what to cover, ensure we are getting… Read moreĢ014 | Performance Anxiety: Can Performance Measurement and Reporting Help to Improve Canadian Healthcare? While “expensive” used to mean hundreds of dollars annually per patient, it can now mean hundreds of thousands of dollars. New, usually single source, and ever more expensive, treatments appear every year, stoking the controversy to a fever pitch. The pricing of new drugs has always been a controversial subject. Unfortunately all such ideas create winners and losers… Read moreĢ015 | Sticker Shock: Finding Value in an Era of High-Priced Drugs Why is it so difficult to improve our health care system? Good policy ideas abound. Collaboration between governments, local health jurisdictions and physicians, in particular, has increased but structures have been put in place for policy-makers to work collaboratively with physicians on funding and programs in some provinces but not others… Read moreĢ016 | Contested Ground: Why Are Some Policies Healthy and Others Not?ĬHSPR’s 28th annual health policy conference, held April 5-6, 2016, at the Pinnacle Hotel Vancouver Harbourfront, celebrated the career of Canada’s Undisciplined Economist, and our very own, Robert G. Over the last decade primary health care (PHC) reform has received sustained attention from professionals, governments and researchers. Speakers shared the latest thinking on learning health systems and facilitated conversations on how BC can adopt the principles and actions that define such systems… Read moreĢ017 | Taking the Pulse of Primary Health Care Reform In a learning health system, every patient interaction is treated as a learning activity, and the ethos of the system overall is improvement. Over two days, distinguished speakers shared their latest thinking and experiences on increasing value in healthcare… Read moreĢ018 | The System Awakens: Building Learning Health Systems in CanadaĬHSPR’s 30th annual health policy conference addressed the question of how BC can become a learning health system. Critical aspects of the conference aimed to describe opportunities for increasing value, discuss structures that support value measurement, and debate policy options for government and stakeholders. What evidence do we have on private financing? What remains to be known? What balance do other countries strike in these decisions? Read moreĢ019 | Value in Canadian Healthcare: Evolution or Revolution?ĬHSPR focused its 31st annual health policy conference improving the value of healthcare in Canada. At the 2020 CHSPR Conference, we delved into the evidence under these debates.
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What role the private sector plays in financing health care has been the subject of longstanding and intense debate in Canada, and the subject of major court battles, from Chaoulli in Quebec, to Allen in Alberta, and the Cambie trial in BC. Read moreĢ020 | Private Parts? Finding the Balance of Public and Private in Health Care
The effects of COVID-19 brought these problems into stark relief, in particular by exposing the problems that fragmented health and social care systems face in adapting to crises that require urgent and/or collaborative responses. Challenges of medical and social complexity are creating a population increasingly inadequately served by organizations and providers operating autonomously.
Integrated care systems are shifting the way that health and social care are organized, delivered and paid for. What should stay the same and what we need to do differently over the next 50 years? Read moreĢ021 | Working Together While Staying Apart: Integration in a Brave New World As we plan for the future, we recognize the challenges that existed prior to the pandemic, and the new ones that have emerged since. To mark the 50th anniversary of medicare we looked back at the roots of medicare, the values and design principles that underpinned the its establishment, and the heroic people who put the foundations in place.
2022 | Medicare at a Crossroads: Myths and Realities 50 Years In
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