CMAJ 2011 election survey: health human resources

CMAJ 2011 election survey: health human resources.

proposal for health human resources advanced over the past decade was a comprehensive “pan-Canadian” strategy for educating, recruiting, licensing and equipping doctors that was recommended by a blue-ribbon panel called Task Force Two in 2006. The comprehensive plan, A Physician Human Resource Strategy for Canada: Final Report, urged wholesale reforms in five areas related to physician supply —...

CMAJ 2011 election survey: electronic health records.

“health” and “medical” interchangeably, often without consequence, on the presumption that everyone knows what everyone is talking about. The distinction, though, can create major difficulties, particularly in terms of people’s comprehension, as evidenced by debate surrounding Canada’s multibillion investment in the development of electronic record systems for health, or medicine, as the case m...

CMAJ 2011 election survey: public health.

CMAJ 2011 election survey: health transfers.

finance minister or health administrator in Canada who isn’t grinning like a Cheshire cat. When the writ dropped for the 2011 federal election, no one expected any of the political parties to spell out their intentions for annual transfer payments for health care made to the provinces after 2014, once the current intergovernmental health accord expires. In fact, conventional wisdom held that it...

CMAJ 2011 election survey: transparency.

criticized for the systemic secrecy in which it shrouds critical health data and decisionmaking processes, and recent forays into “open government” have done little to unlock that black box. While the United States and United Kingdom, among other countries, have introduced sweeping measures to improve public access to health data and regulatory processes, health experts argue Canada has “harmon...