Healthcare Management

Nova Scotia’s first collaborative emergency centre has opened in Parrsboro, enabling people in the area to see a doctor the same day or next day and giving them 24/7 access to emergency care.

The B.C. government and Interior Health, in collaboration with Partnerships BC, have released a request for proposals for the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre building at Kelowna General Hospital.

All managers understand the importance of value, but our thinking about what value is and how value can be created differs across strategies, organizations and sectors. Partnerships between healthcare organizations and for-profit firms can provide innovative ways to overcome current constraints.

Hospital Infrastructure Partners has signed a fixed-price contract to design, build, finance and maintain the new replacement Oakville Hospital in southern Ontario.

An operating room’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system generally uses a substantial amount of energy to ventilate and eliminate airborne contaminants. Johnson Controls’ new Healthcare Environment Optimization integrates a hospital’s building automation system with surgery scheduling to optimize air exchange rates and energy use – with projected annual savings of up to $10,000 in each operating room.

Healthcare culture and attitudes may be a greater barrier to innovation than jurisdictional structure

Decisions are made every day about what healthcare services will be offered, who will fund them and how they will be delivered. These decisions have important ramifications for millions of Canadians, and bad decisions can exhaust already scarce healthcare resources.