Jean-Louis Denis
Department of Health Management, Evaluation and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
[ 2 ] - Governing Collaborative Healthcare Improvement: Lessons From an Atlantic Canadian Case
The Atlantic Healthcare Collaboration for Innovation and Improvement in Chronic Disease (AHC) Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) in Eastern Canada provided an approach to spur system-level reform across multiple health systems for patients and families living with chronic disease. Developed and led by senior executives with a unique governance approach and involving clinical front-line tea...
[ 3 ] - Providing Value to New Health Technology: The Early Contribution of Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Regulatory Agencies
Background New technologies constitute an important cost-driver in healthcare, but the dynamics that lead to their emergence remains poorly understood from a health policy standpoint. The goal of this paper is to clarify how entrepreneurs, investors, and regulatory agencies influence the value of emerging health technologies. Methods Our 5-year qualitative research program examined the proces...
[ 4 ] - Governance Must Dive Into Organizations to Make a Real Difference; Comment on “Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models”
In their 2016 article, Saltman and Duran provide a thoughtful examination of the governance challenges involved in different care delivery models adopted in primary care and hospitals in two European countries. This commentary examines the limited potential of structural changes to achieve real reform and considers that, unless governance arrangements actually succeed in penetrating organizatio...
[ 5 ] - Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity
Among the many reasons that may limit the adoption of promising reform ideas, policy capacity is the least recognized. The concept itself is not widely understood. Although policy capacity is concerned with the gathering of information and the formulation of options for public action in the initial phases of policy consultation and development, it also touches on all stages of the policy proces...
[ 6 ] - What Health System Challenges Should Responsible Innovation in Health Address? Insights From an International Scoping Review
Background While responsible innovation in health (RIH) suggests that health innovations could be purposefully designed to better support health systems, little is known about the system-level challenges that it should address. The goal of this paper is thus to document what is known about health systems’ demand for innovations. Methods We searched 8 databases to perfo...
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