As part of Ontario’s ambitious health transformation agenda, 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) were created with the responsibility to plan, fund and integrate local healthcare services. As a result, LHINs are key stakeholders and play a critical role in the future of the province’s Wait Time Information System (WTIS). As members of the WTIS project Steering Committee, these LHIN Lea...

Abstract This article presents a case for more rigorous application of complexity science in our efforts to evaluate activity that seeks bring about transformative change. It builds on the work is already going evaluation community. Three constructs from are employed – sensitive dependence, emergence, and social attractors. The paper argues if–then logic recommended small-scale change within tr...

Recent research in case-based reasoning suggests the use of metacognitive approaches to control the reasoning process. Whereas most of this research focuses on issues related to retrieval and representation, we describe a metacognitive approach to case adaptation based on the generation of questions and answers. The answer generation utilizes particular planning knowledge in the form of introsp...

OBJECTIVE To present the IMIA Strategic Plan, 'Towards IMIA 2015', to a wide audience within and outside the 'IMIA family', so as to aid in turning the vision of the plan into reality. METHODS IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association, unanimously adopted the IMIA Strategic Plan, 'Towards IMIA 2015', at its 2007 General Assembly meeting in Brisbane, Australia. The wide dissemina...

calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (ceot) is an uncommon odontogenic tumor with well-known histopathological features and a challenging treatment plan. although some investigators advocate conservative approach as the treatment of choice, others believe in radical surgical excision to avoid recurrence or malignant transformation. the main objective of this case report is presenting an unus...