Healthcare benefits are provided universally to all Canadians through a national healthcare system with provincial differences. A history of the manner in which healthcare issues have been understood in different historical and constitutional periods reveals the ever present inequalities in many aspects of healthcare delivery.

Modern healthcare delivery services embrace the use of leading edge technologies and new scientific discoveries to enable better cures for diseases and better means to enable early detection of most life-threatening diseases. The healthcare industry is finding itself in a state of turbulence and flux. The major innovations lie with the use of information technologies and particularly, the adopt...

Today, healthcare organizations are faced with the growing realization that functional and professional silos within the organization are counter to the provision of efficient and effective patient care and are fertile grounds for errors or sentinel events to occur. The improvement of patient care and prevention of errors require that collaboration among professionals occur at the patient care ...

BACKGROUND Integrated healthcare delivery is a policy goal of healthcare systems. There is no consensus on how to measure the concept, which makes it difficult to monitor progress. PURPOSE To identify the different types of methods used to measure integrated healthcare delivery with emphasis on structural, cultural and process aspects. METHODS Medline/Pubmed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochran...

THE PREMISE OF LEATT, PINK AND GUERRIERE’S PAPER is that international experience with integrated healthcare can inform strategies for the establishment of integrated healthcare in Canada. The authors propose that based on international reforms, development of an integrated system of healthcare delivery for Canada can better meet the needs of consumers, improve quality of care and outcomes and ...

Healthcare information technology (HIT) is being offered as a transformer of modern healthcare delivery systems. Some believe that it has the potential to improve patient safety, increase the effectiveness of healthcare delivery, and generate significant cost savings. In other industrial sectors, information technology has dramatically influenced quality and profitability - sometimes for the be...

Healthcare systems in many developing countries do not have enough healthcare providers or healthcare facilities to service their populations. In recent times, nations and groups are setting up health insurance programmes as one way of addressing the myriad of problems that confront healthcare delivery. Develtere et al., discussed the role of mutual health insurance in helping address the situa...

Many healtcare organizations face the challenge of scaling up effective health care delivery. There is a growing agreement that a better understanding of the structure of the healthcare system is needed to achieve that goal. Networks analysis provides the formal framework of thought to understand such systems. Given the definition of health care system as as a network of actors who aim to provi...

The field of healthcare delivery is a large one, and neurosurgical health services research can be said to have only just begun. This chapter briefly addresses 3 components of excellence in health care delivery-quality, access, and cost-from a neurosurgical perspective.

We are surrounded today by “connected things.” While it was little more than five years ago that the internet of things (IoT) was an intriguing new concept, it is now well-entrenched in virtually every sector of the economy — including healthcare. A fast-emerging sub-sector of the phenomenon is the internet of medical things (IoMT). According to research firm Frost & Sullivan, $22.5 billion was...