Governing Collaborative Healthcare Improvement: Lessons From an Atlantic Canadian Case

Implementing a collaborative return-to-work program: Lessons from a qualitative study in a large Canadian healthcare organization

BACKGROUND Comprehensive workplace return-to-work policies, applied with consistency, can reduce length of time out of work and the risk of long-term disability. This paper reports on the findings from a qualitative study exploring managers' and return-to-work-coordinators' views on the implementation of their organization's new return-to-work program. OBJECTIVES To provide practical guidance...

Reviewing the Potential Roles of Financial Incentives for Funding Healthcare in Canada Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement Canadian Foundation For HealtHCare improvement

EHR Adoption in Healthcare Practices: Lessons from Two Case Studies

As electronic health records (EHRs) are becoming an integral part of the American Healthcare System, understanding their adoption processes and the associated barriers is of great importance. This research paper analyzes the status of EHR in two different sites, a large and a mid-sized hospital. We designed a framework to better comprehend their current status of EHR adoption. This framework is...

Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ): lessons learned.

The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality demonstrated that seven hospitals, six multi-specialty physician groups, four health plans and nine employers from across the state can agree upon goals and work collaboratively to achieve them. Together they created: A public/private partnership to define common measures of health care quality that make sense to purchasers/consumers. A report ...

IWRM In Practice: Lessons From Canadian Experiences

In Canada, IWRM has evolved from comprehensive river basin management in the 1940s, as an explicit way to integrate economic, social and environmental considerations, to incorporate the perspectives of stakeholders. IWRM is also designed to overcome ‘edge’ effects (overlap of responsibility and authority between two or more public agencies) as well as vertical and horizontal fragmentation. In t...