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Turning Experience into System Insight in Emergency Services
Emergency services operate in some of the most complex, high-stakes environments in healthcare. As demand grows and call profiles shift, particularly with rising mental health and social complexity, organizations need more than operational metrics to understand performance. They need reliable insight into patient, workforce, and partner experience. Satisfaction and engagement data, when designed rigorously, can serve as a powerful system-learning tool. For emergency and criti
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Why Evaluation Must Catch Up with Co-Design in Healthcare
Co-design is now a cornerstone of healthcare research, policy, and service transformation. Engaging patients, clinicians, and communities is widely seen as both ethically sound and practically valuable. Yet evaluation has not kept pace. Recent evidence shows that while co-design is increasingly used across health systems, its processes and impacts are rarely evaluated in a rigorous or structured ways.[1] Too often, evaluation focuses on end results or participant satisfaction
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The investment that builds intangible value: research
When budgets tighten, research is often the first to go. By some, it is seen as an expense - a cost centre rather than a growth engine. Visionary companies, however, do not see research as another expense but rather an investment in the future, and in the intangible assets that define a company’s worth. Why research matters for value creation Today, intangible assets including intellectual property, patents, proprietary technology, and brand equity, make up the majority of ma
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Optimizing Evidence Synthesis with AI: Practical Implications for Governments and Businesses
In an era of information overload, systematic reviews remain essential for informed decision‑making, but traditional methods are...
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RN Prescribing: Speeding Implementation, Evaluation, and Expansion
Initially introduced in the United Kingdom in 1986, Registered Nurse (RN) prescribing is driven by the need for improving access to care...
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Supporting Guidance on AI, and Fast
Organizations – both public and private – delivering services across various industries and domains are increasingly needing guidance on...
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Implementing the Optimal Healthcare Funding Mix: The Role of Governance
The mix between public and private funding is important as it impacts healthcare access, quality, and costs. While some countries opt for...
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The Importance of Specialized Knowledge in Strategy
Strategy is essential to an organization’s success, yet more than half of all strategies fail to be executed or achieve their intended...
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Strengthening the Learning Health System Framework by Embedding Environmentally Sustainable Principles
Recent climate-related disasters are shedding light on the significant health and economic impacts they can have on our society. As...
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The Use of AI in Scientific Research: Accelerating Discovery and Innovation
Introduction Scientific research is the cornerstone of modern society, influencing everything from the digital tools we use everyday,...
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Community Improvement Plans as an Opportunity to Embed Sustainability Principles
“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal” – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NASA, 2024). For an...
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Why and How to Efficiently Collaborate Across Ministries to Achieve Common Goals: Sustainable Communities
Progress on sustainability goals rely on the coordination across key sectors such as education, social services, and health. The linkages...
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Enabling the Workforce Through Green Skills: CanADAPT, the Canadian Example
The sustainability transition requires green skills which are defined by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization as “the...
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Five key considerations for organizations training their workforce on sustainability
Organizations are increasingly publishing bold sustainability action plans. Many are also undergoing digital transformations. These...
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Seamless Transitions: The Path to Sustainable Health Care for Canadian Seniors
Improving the sustainability of health system depends in part on reducing demand for resource intensive acute care services by ensuring...
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Who shares responsibility for advancing sustainable healthcare?
Despite the urgency of the climate crisis, healthcare systems lack coordinated efforts to raise awareness and take the necessary actions...
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Screening for depression in primary care: latest evidence
The WHO estimates that approximately 280 million people in the world have depression, a health condition that is more common among women...
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Intersectoral action in achieving sustainability goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are closely linked to the sustainability of health systems, emphasizing a holistic approach to...
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Trust in health institutions can improve health outcomes: how is it measured?
Trust is indispensable in health systems as it underpins the patient-provider relationship, facilitating open communication, treatment...
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Improving pandemic responses by learning from previous ones
A Learning Health Systems (LHS) framework is crucial for enhancing the sustainability of health systems by promoting continuous learning...
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