On October 3, 2017, the Telfer Health Transformation Exchange hosted their second event of the year and were pleased to welcome guest speaker Senator Kevin Ogilvie. The speaker discussed Canada’s current healthcare system situation and presented his assessment of possible ways to improve it. Senator Ogilvie advocated for systemic changes in the delivery and access […]
The Telfer School of Management welcomed over 80 health professionals, business leaders, civil servants and students on Wednesday, April 19 for an event organized by the Telfer Health Transformation Exchange (THTex) featuring Jean-François Beaulé, Dr. Deneen Vojta and Dr. Todd Staub of the UnitedHealth Group. After brief introductions from the Exchange co-leaders, Professor Wojtek Michalowski […]
Professor Wojtek Michalowski will be speaking at the I3 (Industry, Issues and Insights) Lunch Series on February 7th, 2017 at 11:30 am. Professor Michalowski will be talking about healthcare innovation, looking at some of the forces that can drive or kill innovation and how Ottawa is positioned to be a healthcare innovation hub. Further information […]
The Telfer School of Management welcomed over 70 health professionals, business leaders, civil servants and students on Wednesday, November 23 for an event organized by the Telfer Health Transformation Exchange (THTex) featuring Dr. Alain Mouttham from the Institut de Recherche de l’Hôpital Monfort. Dr. Mouttham’s presentation, entitled Transforming our Hospitals: Clinician-driven Operations Management highlighted the […]
The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Transformation Team and the extended clinical care teams have been awarded the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario’s Top Quality Award for their work in reducing wait times and streamlining access to high quality care for one of the most lethal cancers facing our population – lung cancer. Their work involved the […]
On Wednesday, May 18, health care professionals, business leaders, students and public servants gathered to attend an event organized by the Telfer Health Transformation Exchange (THTex), featuring Dr. Eric Isselbacher, Director of the Healthcare Transformation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Isselbacher described the activities and […]
Over sixty professors, health professionals, business leaders, civil servants and students gathered at the Telfer School of Management on March 30 to attend an event organized by the Telfer Health Transformation Exchange (THTex) and featuring Dr. Douglas Wood speaking about “innovating health, not healthcare”. During his presentation, Dr. Wood, who is cardiologist by training and […]
The Cleveland Clinic’s former Chief Innovation Officer speaks about why health systems must become innovation test beds and discusses his new book, Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Transforming Healthcare by Putting Ideas to Work. You can read the article here.
An interesting article from the Harvard Business Review on shifting from the structure of teams to the activities of teamwork, in order to function more efficiently. https://hbr.org/2015/12/the-kinds-of-teams-health-care-needs
Randy Giffen and Dr. Michael Fung-Kee-Fung attended and presented at the CASCON Conference in November 2015, a premiere industrial academic conference in computer science and software engineering hosted by IBM. Their session, entitled “Remote Patient Monitoring to Improve Health: Challenges and Opportunities” included a presentation and panel discussion to speak about the issues involved in […]
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