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Longwoods Healthcare Services Radio
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Longwoods provides audio versions of our events, insights, and case studies, all related to best practices, policy, innovations and opinions in Healthcare Services.
Episodes
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Longwoods Information Session with Dr. Anne Wojtak and Dr. Richard Lewanczuk
A conversation with the two leaders in integrated care and co-editors of Healthcare Quarterly. We'll explore the journal, learn more about integrated care and maybe offer a special little tidbit. Editors of Healthcare Quarterly Dr. Anne Wojtak, East Toronto Health Partners and University of…
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A Longwoods Information Session with Dr. Sara Allin
Dr. Sara Allin is the co-editor for the Longwoods journal HealthcarePapers, as well Director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public…
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Longwoods Breakfast Series Event: The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook
How to Fight for What You Need: Advocating for Care in Canada’s Health Care System Canada’s healthcare system is built on principles of universality and access, yet many patients and families experience delays, confusion, barriers and frustration when trying to secure the care they need. In this...
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Do Politics and Healthcare Intersect in 2026? with Jason Sutherland
In this episode, the discussion examines whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's 2025 pledge to “build a stronger Canadian health care system” can be trusted—exploring provincial budget limits, public appetite for targeted healthcare spending, and the trade-offs between building hospitals, hiring...
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How to get published in Healthcare Policy
Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé is a peer‑reviewed academic journal published by Longwoods Publishing in Canada. Focusing on healthcare policy research and policy translation, with an emphasis on issues relevant to health systems, governance, financing, and service delivery, particularly…
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Connected Care in Action Episode 5 Testing What’s Possible Projectathons and the Future of Interoperability
Canada’s progress toward a fully connected health system is measured not just in policies and plans but in how systems actually work together. Projectathons are where that vision is put to the test – structured, non-competitive events that bring together vendors, jurisdictions, and clinical…
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Connected Care in Action Episode 4 Accelerating Together How Public-Private Collaboration Drives System Change
A connected health system cannot be built within technological silos or fragmented partnerships. It requires sustained collaboration across government, industry, clinical leaders, patients and communities, and many more, who share a vision for more modern, efficient, and collaborative care. This...
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Connected Care in Action Episode 3 Built to Scale Rethinking Interoperability for Smarter, Connected Care
Innovation can’t scale without strong, connected foundations. As Canada’s health system becomes more digitally enabled, it needs infrastructure that supports secure, seamless, and real-time information sharing. That is where interoperability comes in. But achieving it means more than just linking...
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Connected Care in Action Episode 2 From the Ground Up Community-Driven Innovation in Underserved Settings
Digital health innovation often emerges from research labs and policy tables, but some of the most impactful solutions begin at the community level, in response to real-world needs. Across Canada, clinicians, Indigenous leaders, health organizations, and local changemakers are designing and...
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Connected Care in Action Episode 1 At the Front Line How AI Is Giving Clinicians Time Back
Explore how AI-powered scribe tools are easing clinicians’ documentation burden, improving care workflows, and giving time back to patients through responsible, real-world integration. Speakers Dr. Rashaad Bhyat, Senior Clinical Leader, Canada Health Infoway Dr. Eileen Lynn McCallum, Primary Care...
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Why Some Types of Cancer are Harder to Treat Than Others: New Frontiers in Oncology
Over the past thirty years, groundbreaking innovations have saved and transformed thousands of lives of Canadians with cancer. Immunotherapies and precision medicines in particular have made huge strides for many cancer types, including lung, prostate and melanoma, sometimes turning a diagnosis...
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Why Canada Should Look to Australia for Health-System Fixes
Canadian provinces are struggling with affordability, access and equity as populations age and demand rises. This episode compares Canada’s provincial systems with Australia’s states, highlighting Australia’s stronger performance on equity and health outcomes and examining how private insurance...
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Innovations in Primary Care: The Power of Virtual Triage
The Renfrew County Virtual Triage and Assessment Centre (RC VTAC) is an innovative, collaborative healthcare program launched in 2020 to provide timely, rural-focused care, connecting patients with virtual or in-person support from family doctors and paramedics, reducing ED visits, and managing...
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Vaccine Policies for Older Canadians
How Can We Better Protect Older Canadians – A Booster Shot for Canada’s Vaccine Policies With Canada’s age demographics continuously shifting, policymakers and science hubs have invested in strategies that can better serve our social, economic, and healthcare infrastructures. This session will...
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The Path to Connect all Ontarians to Team-Based Primary Care
Ontario faces a significant challenge: 2.5 million Ontarians do not have a family doctor or any other access to primary care, and that number is projected to grow to 4.4 million people in 2026. This challenge is even greater for people in Ontario living with complex, difficult to manage chronic...
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The Canadian Thoracic Society COPD Pharmacotherapy Guidelines: Implementing Science to Improve Outcomes
The Canadian Thoracic Society COPD Guidelines were updated in the Fall of 2023. The evidence based recommendations represent a significant change in the pharmacological management of COPD when compared to the previous versions. They represent a pro-active management approach to improve quality of...
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Practical Application of AI to Support Medical Event Prediction and Clinician Decision Making
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can introduce clarity to the clinical journey for the most-challenging diseases and treatment pathways. AI brings power to consume large disparate data sets and transform information into succinct, actionable insights with the power to identify opportunities to reduce...
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From Approval to Access How will Canadians See the Full Potential of Gene Therapy
Gene therapy has emerged as an exciting innovation for Canadians with rare diseases. As more gene therapy treatments gain approval in Canada, there is promise for transforming and advancing healthcare, especially in areas of high unmet need. Access to those new therapies, however, remains...
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Thinking Differently Recreating a Health System We Are Proud Of
Ontario healthcare landscape. There was a time when Canadians could confidently claim theirs was the best health system in the world. Time to face reality – that is no longer true. The system faces major challenges, with access to care at the top of the list of concerns. Despite spending more on...
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Dignity in Care
Insights on the struggles of life limiting experiences and understanding end-of-life care for patients, care providers and medical professionals. Patients and their caregivers require physical and emotional care, especially as they enter the later stages of life. Failure to attend to personhood…
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Is Our Health System Ready for Where Science is Taking Us
After decades of research and innovation, cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are unlocking new ways to revolutionize medicine. Distinct from traditional pharmaceutical treatments, CGTs represent highly precise and innovative approaches that target the underlying causes of genetic and acquired…
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Improving the Prevention, Management, and Treatment of Diabetes and Other Chronic Diseases
Featuring: Kimberley Hanson, Chief Executive Officer, HealthPartners Dr. David M. Kaplan, Vice President, Quality, Ontario Health Dr. Karen Cross, Chief Executive Officer, MIMOSA Diagnostics Dr. Lorraine Lipscombe, Senior Scientist, Women's College Hospital Research Institute Amir Naseri, Senior...
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You Can’t Recruit Your Way Out of a Crisis
Leigh Chapman, Chief Nursing Officer, Health Canada with Tim Guest, CEO, Canadian Nurses Association and Carly Weeks, Health Reporter, The Globe and Mail discuss why Retention is critical to today’s health workforce challenges in the context of a global nursing shortage. This title “You can’t...
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Long-Term Care - In Conversation with Donna Duncan, CEO, Ontario Long Term Care Association
The Ontario Long Term Care Association represents 70% of Ontario's long-term care homes. In four years, the oldest of the baby boomers’ generation will turn 80. By 2040, Ontario’s population over that age will nearly double. Listen to today's conversation with Donna Duncan, CEO for the Ontario…
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Health Beyond - In Conversation with Dr. Jim Feng, CEO and Founder for Phyxable
Phyxable – a world-class virtual care provider – and its partners, Micron Digital and Wizcraft Design Build Inc., have been selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) as one of five Canadian companies to contribute to its “Health Beyond Initiative” for 2023. By initiating a leading role in...
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A Path to High-Quality Respiratory Care for Canadians Living with Asthma
More than 150 certified respiratory educators, respirologists, allergists, general practitioners/family physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists from across the country participated in the first Canadian stakeholder consensus to lay out a path for high-quality respiratory care...
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Right Sizing Pediatric Healthcare
Following three years of pandemic, Ontario children faced escalating waits for medically necessary care. In most communities they wait longer than adults, often impacting their development and always impacting their families. In response, the Ontario government made an historic investment of…
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Increasing Access to Primary Care
The healthcare system is in crisis, with access appearing to be at an all-time low due to increased demand and reduced supply. There is an urgent need, particularly in primary care, to create evidence-informed, value-based strategies that improve efficiency and enhance care. First Contact...
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The Impact of Administrative Burden on Physician Burnout
In today’s turbulent healthcare sector, significant macro-level trends are impacting the health and wellbeing of our doctors, nurses, and support staff. Of all the headwinds straining the physician’s ability to deliver high quality care, physician burnout is the common thread that ties them...
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The Future of Technology Enabled Healthcare Work with Helen Angus and Cameron Love
The Future of Technology Enabled Healthcare Work Featuring: Helen Angus, CEO, AMS Healthcare Cameron Love, CEO, The Ottawa Hospital Helen Angus and Cameron Love discuss the just released McMaster Forum Deliberative Dialogue on the future of technology enabled healthcare work. In their…
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Connected Care. Creating Better Healthcare Experiences. With UHN and VHA
Dr. Kevin Smith, President and CEO, University Health Network, Dr. Kathryn Nichol, President and CEO, VHA Home HealthCare, Carolyn Gosse, Vice President, Clinical, UHN at Home and Seniors Care and Courtney Bean, Vice President, Strategic Solutions and Partnerships, VHA Home HealthCare University...
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Joy in Work Nicety or Necessity with Dr Chris Hayes
Longwoods Leadership Discussion with Dr. Chris Hayes, Chief Information Officer, Trillium Health Partners. Joy in Work: Nicety or Necessity The predicted shortage of the healthcare workforce has reached a crisis state. National and provincial agencies are advocating for greater resources and new...
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Equitable Care Anywhere. A Partnership that is Untethering Care from Place, at System Scale
Healthcare is at the tipping point (finally) of going "Omnichannel". This means organizations and clinicians design and deliver care models that enable patients to access services (and the clinicians who deliver the care) at the most appropriate time and setting—whether virtual or…
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Rebalancing Care for Aging Canadians with SE Health
As pressures mount in healthcare settings across the country, how can we shift the financing and delivery of continuing care to better support older Canadians to live and age at home and in their communities? This Longwoods Breakfast briefing will explore how we can leverage evidence, experience,...
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Health System Sustainability and Resilience
Featuring: Moderator: Dr. Robert Bell Panelists: Sara Allin, Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation Darran Fischer, Managing Director, Philips Canada Kiersten Combs, Country President – Canada, AstraZeneca Dr. Leigh Chapman, Chief Nursing Officer of Canada Our...
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Missed Vaccines are Putting our Kids at Increased Risk of Cancer and Meningitis - A Longwoods Leadership Discussion
Falling through the Cracks: Missed Vaccines are Putting our Kids at Increased Risk of Cancer and Meningitis The COVID-19 pandemic created a crisis in delivering routine and school-based vaccinations to school-age children, resulting in delayed and missed vaccinations for many children across the...
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Longwoods Breakfast - Dr. Michael Gardam, Health PEI, CEO. Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land: Moving from Toronto’s Hospital Row to PEI The healthcare systems in downtown Toronto versus PEI could not be further apart. In May 2021 Dr. Gardam left academia to take on the role of CEO of the PEI provincial health authority, with the intent of trying to bring...
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Engaging Patients in Research Evidence Uptake: Episode 3 - Engaging Patient Stakeholders
EPISODE 3 Engaging Patient Stakeholders Patient-oriented research partnerships require adequate planning, support, and funding to mobilize knowledge and accelerate impact. The following conversations, along with the Healthcare Quarterly Special Issue outline three themes that were critical for…
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Engaging Patients in Research Evidence Uptake: Episode 1 - Identifying and Encouraging Patient-Oriented Research Partnerships
EPISODE 1 Identifying and Encouraging Patient-Oriented Research Partnerships Patient-oriented research partnerships require adequate planning, support, and funding to mobilize knowledge and accelerate impact. The following conversations, along with the Healthcare Quarterly Special Issue outline...
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Engaging Patients in Research Evidence Uptake: Episode 2 - Engaging the Research Community
EPISODE 2 Engaging the Research Community Patient-oriented research partnerships require adequate planning, support, and funding to mobilize knowledge and accelerate impact. The following conversations, along with the Healthcare Quarterly Special Issue outline three themes that were critical for...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare
What strategies should Canadian healthcare leaders be considering when crafting their AI strategies to better benefit patients, providers, and payors? From shorter wait times to improved patient outcomes—A successful AI strategy must consider cultural, business, technological and ethical issues…
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Toward a World Class Health Data System
In response to the health data challenges highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy (pCHDS) Expert Advisory Group (EAG)’s Third Report has made recommendations toward a world-class health data system. Featuring Jeff Nesbitt, CEO, Canada Health Information...
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Digital Compassion: Do You Have a Choice?
A Longwoods Breakfast Series discussion. Featuring: Brian Hodges, Executive-Vice President Education and Chief Medical Officer, University Health Network David Wiljer, Executive Director of Education/Technology & Innovation for UHN Digital Gillian Strudwick, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer and...
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Expanding Care Out of Hospitals – Connected, Patient-Centric Care Across the Health Continuum
Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Royal Philips and Darran Fischer, Managing Director, Philips Canada A Longwoods Breakfast Series event. As we look to a post-pandemic world, healthcare industry leaders are asking themselves – how do we transform the technology we turned to in...
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Digitally Enabled Community Care Models
Digitally enabled community care models facilitate hospital to home patient flow. The power of digital platforms to enhance community care. Showcasing three very different stories; virtual after hours patient support program, patient engagement and remote patient monitoring program, utilizing AI…
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‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic
‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic with Dr. Kevin Smith, President and CEO, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario. Kevin Smith will explore how the University Health Network responded to the biggest public health challenge in a century and the many…
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The Opioid Overdose Crisis in Ontario as a Public Health Emergency
Matthew Anderson, President and CEO for Ontario Health and Dirk Huyer, Chief Coroner for Ontario discuss; The Opioid Overdose Crisis as a Public Health Emergency: What Could We Achieve by Applying Lessons from our Pandemic Response? Opioid-related deaths have risen dramatically during the…
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Toward a New Era of Quality Improvement: Transforming Ideas into Action
Leslee Thompson, CEO, Health Standards Organization & Accreditation Canada G. Ross Baker, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto A dynamic, thought-provoking conversation with two leading health and healthcare experts in Quality…
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Panel Discussion: How Meaningful Change in DEI from Healthcare Leaders Matters
An open discussion with the panelists as they review and comment on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in healthcare. Chaired by: Yinka Macaulay, Founder, Well Millennial and Lead, Health Equity, North York Toronto Health Partners Featuring Moderator: Ryan Hinds, Director of Equity, Diversity and...
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Panel Presentation: How Meaningful Change in DEI from Healthcare Leaders Matters
Chaired by: Yinka Macaulay, Founder, Well Millennial and Lead, Health Equity, North York Toronto Health Partners Featuring Moderator: Ryan Hinds, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Panelists: Dr. Rani Srivastava, Associate...
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