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From the Burgundy Chairs
by Santis Health
From the Burgundy Chairs is a podcast for health system leaders created by Santis Health. Bringing you insight, understanding, and thoughtful discussion on issues affecting Canada’s health system, From the Burgundy Chairs will take you beyond the immediacy of the daily news cycle to untangle some of the health sector’s most intractable problems.
Episodes
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Beyond the Agenda: The Unspoken Priorities for Canada’s Health System
When Canada’s Health Ministers meet this October, the headline issues will take up most of the oxygen. Tariffs and wait times are driving the news cycle, and a number of equally consequential health challenges are being pushed to the margins. The long-term sustainability of our health care system...
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Digital Health Founders: Mike Wessinger, PointClickCare
Digital Health Founders is a Santis Health series featuring one-on-one conversations with leaders from across Canada’s digital health ecosystem. From transformative startups to public sector changemakers, these episodes explore how innovators are shaping the future of care through collaboration,...
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Finding the Safe Harbour: AI & the Future of Health Policy
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping the landscape of Canadian health care, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and critical regulatory challenges. In this episode of From the Burgundy Chairs, Santis Health's Digital Health Practice Lead, Ben King, is joined by Will Falk, an...
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The New Clinical Reality: AI at the Point of Care
Canadian health systems are facing sustained pressure from workforce shortages, rising patient complexity, and increasing administrative burden on clinicians. In response, artificial intelligence tools are beginning to be introduced into clinical environments with evidence demonstrating...
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Digital Health Founders: Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia, Amplify Care
Digital Health Founders is a Santis Health series featuring one-on-one conversations with leaders from across Canada’s digital health ecosystem. From transformative startups to public sector changemakers, these episodes explore how innovators are shaping the future of care through collaboration,...
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Unpacking the Inaugural Canadian Health Perspective Research
In this deep dive, veteran health journalist Avis Favaro sits down with Nik Nanos (Nanos Research) and Patrick Nelson (Santis Health) to break down the inaugural Santis-Nanos Canadian Health Perspective - a national survey tracking public sentiment on health care delivery, priorities, and system...
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A Critical Moment for Canada: Ensuring World-Leading Access to Innovative Medicines
While Canadian researchers are making incredible biomedical breakthroughs in labs across the country, our capacity to bring those medicines to patients and their health care teams is inefficient, complex and fragmented. The challenges that currently shape Canada’s access environment are being...
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Unlocking the Script: The Future of Vaccine Access in Ontario
With over 2.5 million Ontarians currently without a family doctor, the pharmacy is no longer just a place to pick up prescriptions—it is where health care must start. Yet, a significant regulatory bottleneck remains: while Ontario pharmacists can now administer a wider range of vaccines, they…
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Digital Health Founders: Adrian Schauer, AlayaCare
Digital Health Founders is a Santis Health series featuring one-on-one conversations with leaders from across Canada’s digital health ecosystem. From transformative startups to public sector changemakers, these episodes explore how innovators are shaping the future of care through collaboration,...
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Rethinking Care Approaches to Reduce Stigma
When pregnancy overlaps with incarceration, trauma histories, or systemic discrimination, care decisions become deeply influenced by power imbalances and stigma. These intersecting challenges often leave vulnerable populations facing significant gaps as they navigate pregnancy and childbirth. How...
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Trust in Science: Confronting Misinformation, Rebuilding Confidence
Trust in traditional public health systems is eroding. At the same time, health misinformation - and disinformation - is spreading faster than ever, reshaping how Canadians view and interpret science and health care. The 2025 Health and Media Annual Tracking Survey, commissioned by the Canadian...
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The Future of MedTech: A Strategic Investment in Canada’s Economic Health
As Canada prepares for the fall return of Parliament, a major policy question is emerging across industries: what is the country’s economic strategy for the next decade, and what role should health play in it? After attending the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s B7 summit in May, BD-Canada posed…
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Digital Health Founders: Mike Checkley, Accuro EMR
Digital Health Founders is a Santis Health series featuring one-on-one conversations with leaders from across Canada’s digital health ecosystem. From transformative startups to public sector changemakers, these episodes explore how innovators are shaping the future of care through collaboration,...
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Episode 41: The Health Data Imperative: Why Canada’s Health Future Depends on Collaboration
Canada is making important strides in modernizing its health data infrastructure, but progress remains uneven and insufficient. While digital health investments continue at both the federal and provincial levels, health data across the system remains fragmented. Many provinces still lack...
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Episode 40: Theranostics: The Leading Edge of Precision Care in Cancer Treatment
This podcast was created with support from GE HealthCare Canada. Theranostics is a patient-centric approach in medicine that combines diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to precisely visualize and treat cancer without harming healthy tissue. This innovative treatment method is an incredible...
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New Insights into the Essential Role of the Practical Nurse in Health Care
To build a stronger, more resilient health system in Ontario, we must fully recognize and support Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs). RPNs deliver more than one-third of nursing care in Ontario, yet many remain underrecognized, underutilized, and misunderstood across the health care system. As...
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Episode 38: Crisis & the Ballot Box: Who Keeps Government Running?
On March 23, Prime Minister Mark Carney asked Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election, officially kicking off what’s known as the Writ Period. During this time, the federal government and its 370,000 public servants must follow the Caretaker Convention—a set...
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Episode 37: Tackling Physician Burnout - Building a Resilient Health Care System for Physicians
Episode 37 | Tackling Physician Burnout - Building a Resilient Health Care System for Physicians To foster patient-first care, Canada needs healthy physicians. In Canada, the issue of burnout is reaching critical levels, with nearly three-quarters of health care providers reporting symptoms of...
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Episode 36: Leading the Way: Partnering and Innovating in Mental Health and Addictions Care
Mental health and addictions care is a critical issue affecting countless individuals and families across Ontario. As the demand for services continues to grow, the challenges within the system have become increasingly apparent, from long wait times to inadequate access to community supports. In...
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Episode 35: Navigating Change: The Growing Role of Caregivers in Ontario
Caregivers exist in all areas of our communities, whether it’s a family member providing physical support to their loved one or a friend providing emotional support to their neighbour. Caregiving has recently taken center stage with government decision makers considering policies like the…
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Episode 34: Navigating Cognitive Challenges: Advancing Understanding and Support for Schizophrenia
This podcast was created with support from Boehringer Ingelheim Canada. Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder that affects millions worldwide. Though psychosis is the hallmark symptom of this serious mental illness, cognitive impairment is another core feature that significantly impacts...
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Episode 33: Bilateral Health Agreements: Changing the Paradigm in FPT Health Relations
Since the 2004 Paul Martin deal to fix health care for a generation, which guaranteed federal health transfers would increase by 6% annually, the Government of Canada has sought to constrain the growth of the Canada Health Transfer (CHT). First, the Harper Government lowered the annual CHT growth...
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Episode 32: The Next Step for PrEP: Expanding the Fight Against HIV
Supported by Gilead Sciences Canada. Canada is experiencing an HIV crisis and we’re moving in the wrong direction. By the end of 2020, there were 62,790 Canadians living with HIV. The following year, there were 1,472 additional diagnoses in Canada — a 11.3% increase from the previous year. PrEP...
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Episode 31: Interprofessionalism: The Role of Team-Based Primary Care within Canada’s Health System
Primary care is the foundation of Canada’s health care system; however, the sector is facing a multitude of pressing challenges. Currently, more than 6.5 million Canadians do not have regular access to primary care and the one third of Canadians who have a family doctor find it difficult to get…
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Episode 30: From Challenges to Change: A Hospital Leader’s Perspective
Delivering world-class care and research, Ontario’s hospitals play a pivotal role in diagnosing, treating and coordinating care for a growing population. But Ontario’s health system is under incredible pressure. Hospitals are faced with a series of unique challenges including capacity restraints,...
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Episode 29: Addressing the Health Workforce Crisis Through Fostering Healthy Workplaces
The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated capacity and health human resource (HHR) challenges across health systems in Canada, and around the world. The extent of these challenges has necessitated governments, providers and organizations to think differently about their respective roles and commit to…
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Episode 28: Walking with Humility - Culturally Safe Care for Indigenous Peoples
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its report “Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future.” The report detailed how colonization historically undermined the health of Indigenous Peoples and how past policies continue to contribute towards the persistent health gap...
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Episode 27: The Pharmacy Evolution
Pharmacists’ scope of practice has expanded and evolved in recent years, and Canada's pharmacists are doing more for their patients than ever before. Pharmacists in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario have seen their prescribing powers expand significantly this year — with Ontario further...
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Episode 26: Reflecting on the State of Addictions Care
In February 2023, the Government of Canada announced it will increase health funding to the provinces and territories by $196.1 billion over the next 10 years. Included in this funding, in an effort to address Canada’s overdose crisis, is targeted support for mental health and substance use to...
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AI Podcast Series: How AI is Changing How Hospitals Work
Artificial intelligence has made remarkable advancements in recent years, with the potential to revolutionize the health care industry. From aiding in disease diagnosis and treatment planning to optimizing patient care and streamlining administrative tasks, AI systems can enhance medical outcomes...
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AI Podcast Series: Exploring the Crossroads of AI and Clinical Care
Artificial intelligence has made remarkable advancements in recent years, with the potential to revolutionize the health care industry. From aiding in disease diagnosis and treatment planning to optimizing patient care and streamlining administrative tasks, AI systems can enhance medical outcomes...
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Episode 23: Connecting the Health Care System: Canada’s Approach to Health Data and Implications for Cancer Care
Canadians take pride in the health care system. However, access to health care services across Canada remains an ongoing challenge. The pressures within our system – an aging population, chronic illness, hallway medicine and increased demand, among others – have only been heightened by the…
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Episode 22: Overcoming Ideology in Health System Delivery
There is a strong belief in Canada that our health system is inherently “universal” and “public”, despite longstanding and long-term collaborations between partners from across sectors. Recent debates about the pros and cons of opening health care to “other organizations” have ramped up on the...
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Episode 21: Creating Equity in First Nations Addictions Treatment Programs
First Nations communities experience inequitable access to health care, as well as a disproportionate burden of harm related to substance use. It is now widely recognized that this reality reflects the impact of policies implemented to assimilate Indigenous peoples, as well as the effects of…
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Episode 20: The Future of Research, Advocacy and Care for the Parkinson’s Community
With April being Parkinson’s Awareness Month, and April 11 being World Parkinson’s Day, Parkinson Canada is sharing the story of the “Why”; why Parkinson’s continues to be so prominent in Canada. Parkinson Canada is also sharing the “How”, exploring the four pillars of support Parkinson Canada...
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Episode 19: Rute Fernandes on What we Need in Canada to Have a Successful Rare Disease Strategy
Canadians rightfully ask why it takes so long to access new, innovative medicines. Government’s ability to review, approve and regulate the marketing of drugs is a robust, complex process. This is particularly true in Canada for people who need treatments for rare diseases, where access can vary...
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Episode 18: Bernard Lord on Reimagining Health Care to Improve the Wellbeing of Canadians
Across Canada, access to health care remains an ongoing challenge and the pressures within our system – aging population, chronic illness, hallway medicine and increased demand – have only been heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. As health care continues to be debated in legislatures, virtual...
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Episode 17: Deborah Simon on the Health Human Resource Crisis
Moving beyond COVID-19 will require a multi-faceted solution that involves government, the health care sector and the will of the Canadian population. Pre-existing issues that have been amplified throughout the pandemic, including the health human resource crisis. Advocates have called on all...
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Episode 16: Durhane Wong-Rieger on Canada’s Approach to a Rare Drugs Strategy
Earlier this year, the Government of Canada began a public consultation on their 2019 commitment for a national strategy to address high-cost rare drugs. Now, almost seven months after the start of the public consultation and years after their initial commitment, there are few details on the...
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Episode 15: Suzanne McGurn on the Future of CADTH
Vaccination numbers are rising and Canada is now emerging from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. This episode spotlights the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) and how the organization is incorporating key lessons learned as it prepares to refresh its own strategy later...
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Episode 14: Ontario's Mental Health Temperature Check
Ontario has been in and out of lockdowns over the past year. Experts have alluded to a fourth wave that could be more disastrous than the first three due to the mental health and addiction crises that have been pushed aside due to COVID-19. With more Ontarians facing addictions and mental health...
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Episode 13: The Agility of Canada’s Health Charities
The past 12 months have been a historic period of challenge and change for Canadian health care charities. The pandemic has impacted how they fundraise, conduct research programs, engage donors and volunteers, and ultimately deliver support to Canadians living with disease. Despite this, health...
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Episode 12: Doug Clark on PMPRB’s Path Forward
Last October, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) published new guidelines aimed at modernizing Canada’s pricing framework for patented medicines. The guidelines and regulations are the culmination of a five-year process that began in 2016 and the regulations are currently scheduled...
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Episode 11: A Breakthrough Year for Physician Assistants
2020 will undoubtedly be remembered as a challenging year for Canada’s health care system. From hospital capacity challenges to the realities of staff burnout, all facets of the health sector have been impacted by COVID-19 in some shape or form. Despite a turbulent year, there are positive…
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Episode 10: Health Profession Regulation - Is Ontario's Current Model Working?
Like many jurisdictions in Canada, Ontario is struggling to regulate health professionals in a way that both protects patients and the public, but also provides flexible oversight to ensure health professionals are able to exercise their full scope of practice including their depth of knowledge,...
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Episode 9: Jodi Hall on the Federal Government's Role in Long-Term Care
It’s been one week since Governor General Julie Payette delivered the Speech from the Throne, opening Parliament with a significant commitment to long-term care. But what now? What will the national standards for long-term care mean for operators and, most importantly, residents and staff? In…
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Episode 8: Donna Duncan on Long-Term Care Before, During and Post COVID-1
The Ontario Long Term Care Association’s Wave 2 Action Plan for long-term care consists of 11 elements that aim to ensure long-term care homes have what they need moving forward to prevent and contain COVID-19. In this episode, Donna Duncan, Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Long Term Care...
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Episode 7: Innovation in Times of Uncertainty
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and, at the same time, a unique opportunity to embrace digital health solutions. Responding to COVID-19 requires swift and innovative thinking, and although digital health has been on governments’ radars for decades, progress has been...
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Episode 6: The Federal Fiscal Snapshot. What Does it Mean and What’s Next for Canada?
On July 8, the federal Liberal government updated the country on Canada’s finances. This fiscal snapshot was unlike any other as it arrived after four months of reactionary spending as the Trudeau Government responded to COVID-19. As the government moves beyond the emergency phase of its response...
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Episode 5: Dr. Naveed Mohammad on a Path Forward for Ontario’s Hospitals
Building capacity in Ontario’s hospitals has been a core pillar in the province’s COVID-19 response. More than three months after the provincial government declared a state of emergency, the question is, how are our hospitals holding up? How are they navigating this next — somewhat uncertain —...
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From the Burgundy Chairs is a podcast for health system leaders created by Santis Health. Bringing you insight, understanding, and thoughtful discussion on issues affecting Canada’s health system, From the Burgundy Chairs will take you beyond the immediacy of the daily news cycle to untangle some of the health sector’s most intractable problems.
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