Finance & Capital Management

To gain the full benefits of innovation, healthcare provider organizations need to change the way they think about procurement

U.S. officials laid a fresh charge against a former Canadian physician accused of taking part in a huge health fraud ring in Texas.

A private health-care company has donated $16,700 to the Ontario Liberals as it seeks government approval to purchase a private clinic.

“Canada does not have a high-performing health system” is the central message of Stephen Duckett’s Where to from Here? Keeping Medicare Sustainable (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012). In his view, the Canadian system might be better than many others and there may be pockets of excellence, but Canada does not have a health system in which, as the saying goes, “the right person enables the right care in the right setting, on time, every time.”

TORONTO | The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) says it is "extremely disappointed" with the provincial government's reported intention to cap salaries for newly hired hospital executives at $418,000 a year.

CALGARY | An average Canadian family of two adults and two children will pay about $11,400 in taxes for Canada’s so-called “free” healthcare in 2012, according to a new report from the conservative public-policy think tank, the Fraser Institute.

Following the loss of a legislative seat that his party held for more than 20 years, Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak needed something and he needed it fast. It had to be big and bold. Hudak, taking inspiration from the RIM launch of the Playbook, rushed out with a promise to eliminate $800 million in what he called wasteful spending on a duplicative healthcare administration. Like the Playbook, the promising parts were lost in the naïve and untested aspects of what was proposed.