#health #healthpolicy #ontario #kpi #healthmanagement #ethics Ontario Health has retired the public tracking of “hallway health care” patients from its annual reports, ending reporting on care delivered in unconventional spaces such as emergency department hallways or on stretchers. This metric had climbed from an average of 1,326 patients per day in 2022-23 to 1,390 in early 2024, with peaks above 1,860 in January 2024, reflecting ongoing hospital overcrowding well after th

#ontario #canada #healthpolicies #health #government Did you know that Ontario Health, the largest healthcare department in Ontario, was responsible for publishing a yearly report on the performance of Ontario’s health system? It appears, however, that no report has been published since 2019, almost 7 years. That's because it has evolved into a topic-specific performance report: https://www.ontariohealth.ca/system/reporting/performance These reports contain a trove of data

#healthpolicies #management #government #health The Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail recently published an OECD comparison of MRI machines per million people, showing Canada near the bottom. While this facilitates quick country-to-country comparisons, interpreting the data without context can be misleading. The real issue is not only the number of machines but how this relates to health care access and delivery in Canada. To build on this point, while a better supply of MRIs s

#innovation #canada #health #medicaldevice Yesterday, the Frontier Center for Public Policy published a rebuttal to a Globe & Mail...