Keep up to date with the latest activities of contributors and follow up on interesting initiatives related to themes we’ve dealt with in previous years. If you have news you’d like to relay, get in touch.
News
Quebec’s Bill 10: Implications for community and patient engagement
February 2015
Bill 10 treats as one “establishment” all facilities in a region. How will the user’s voice be heard in these regional megastructures?
The patient activation measure
June 2014
Patient activation improves health outcomes: it can be measured, improved and used to tailor health services to individual capacities
What people are saying about patient engagement
June 2014
Explore the meaning, value and mechanisms of patient engagement
Policy recommendations for patient empowerment
June 2014
Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group in the UK
Continuity, communication and community: A few thoughts on the Commissioner’s report on Quebec’s health system performance
May 2014
Comparing performance in Montreal, Quebec and Canada
Who’s using eHealth and mHealth?
April 2014
New reports provide a global view on use of health information and communication technologies
Federal transfers for Quebec health and social services
March 2014
Report from the Expert Committee on federal intervention in Québec’s health and social services sector between 2002 and 2013.
Partnerships to enhance health system performance
March 2014
Collaborations between industry and health institutions
The Dutch health care performance report: seven-year analysis
February 2014
Published in Health Research Policy and Systems, this article looks at the impact of the Report on policymaking.
Adoption, use and effects of electronic medical records in Quebec
February 2014
From Le Médecin du Québec, this study by Guy Paré finds that EMRs need to become better at seizing granular data and interoperable with hospital systems before more Quebec GPs embrace them
An aging population: our senior moment
December 2013
According to this Globe and Mail article, new ways of calculating dependency ratios are needed if we really want to understand the impact of aging populations.
