Healthcare Financing, Innovation and Transformation
Healthcare accounts for roughly half of most provincial budgets. As a result, policy-makers across Canada share a similar challenge – how to strengthen the quality of healthcare without further escalating costs. By disseminating the best knowledge and evidence—as well as promoting productive dialogue among policy-makers, researchers and the public—CHSRF is actively supporting improvements to Canadian healthcare by undertaking applied policy research and organizing a variety of policy dialogues in the areas of health system innovation and transformation, cost drivers and efficiency, and financing models.
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What If?
A series of healthcare ideas worth talking about
If you missed our successful symposium on healthcare financing in Toronto earlier this month, you can now share in the experience. Based on reports commissioned by CHSRF to provide policy options for healthcare financing in Canada, this series presents eight ideas for discussion. For each What If? scenario, many others can be found in the reports, also available through these pages.
» Watch the videos, read the summaries, view the presentations, read the reports
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What’s new
» Canadian Primary Healthcare Policy: The Evolving Status of Reform, January 16, 2012
» Transformation Lessons from Disease-based Strategies: An Environmental Scan Chronic disease: New frontier of healthcare, December 17, 2011
» Provincial and Teritorial Health System Priorities: An Environmental Scan, December 17, 2011
» Value-Based Pricing of Pharmaceuticals in Canada: Opportunities to Expand the Role of Health Technology Asessment?, December 16, 2011
» Opportunities to Promote Efficiency in Hospital Decision-Making through the Use of Health Technology Assessment, December 14, 2011
» The Use of Health Technology Assessment to Inform the Value of Provider Fees: Current Challenges and Future Oportunities , October 18, 2011
» Public Perceptions and Media Coverage of the Canadian Healthcare System: A Synthesis, October 6, 2011
» Research Synthesis on Health Financing Models: The Potential for Social Insurance in Canada, October 4, 2011
» Transforming Front-line Mental Health Care in Québec: Support and Follow-up, September 30, 2011
» The Sources of Attitudes on the Canadian Healthcare System, September 27, 2011
» Exploring alternative level of care (ALC) and the role of funding policies: An evolving evidence base for Canada, September 20, 2011
» Assessing initiatives to transform healthcare systems: Lessons for Canada, July 21, 2011
» Medical savings accounts in financing healthcare, July 21, 2011
» Experience with Medical Savings Accounts in Selected Jurisdictions, July 21, 2011
» Financing models for non-CHA services in Canada: Lessons from local and international experiences with social insurance, May 31, 2011
» Atlantic Regional Policy Dialogue on Health System Transformation, May 9, 2011
» Hospital payment policy in Canada: Options for the future, March 15, 2011
» Physician payment mechanisms: Overview and options for Canada, March 15, 2011
Work underway
Cost drivers and health-system efficiency
- Value-based pricing of pharmaceuticals in Canada: Opportunities to expand the role of health technology assessment?
- The use of technology assessment to inform the value of provider fees: Current challenges and future opportunites
- Opportunities to promote efficiency in hospital decision-making through the use of health technology assessment
- Private healthcare delivery in Canada
Financing models
Health-system innovation and transformation
Upcoming events
Exchanges and dialogues on healthcare transformation
These events will foster open and informed dialogue among policy-makers, researchers, healthcare providers and the public.
Monthly policy presentations on health-system financing will highlight the findings of recent research syntheses on cost drivers and financing options, and offer reflections from a variety of perspectives.
Policy roundtables will identify priorities for health-systems transformation, and the support and infrastructure needed to help move toward transformative change.
Engaging the public around issues of health system transformation. Focus groups and online opportunities will be conducted to gather expectations for the health system and priorities for its transformation.
More CHSRF publications and resources
Myth: In healthcare, more is always better
Myth: Canada’s system of healthcare is financing is unsustainable
Myth: A parallel private system would reduce waiting times in the public system
Myth: For-profit ownership of facilities would lead to a more efficient healthcare system
Defining the Medicare "Basket"
Building a public dialogue framework for defining the medicare basket
Romanow Commission summary and discussion papers
How Privately Funded Healthcare can save Medicare…or ruin it”
The Three Faces of Sustainability
Other resources
CHSRF contact:
Gillian Mulvale
Director, Healthcare Financing, Innovation and Transformation
Tel. (613) 728-2238 ext. 249
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