On June 24, 2014, Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced
the creation of the Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation to look at creative
healthcare ideas and approaches that exist in Canada and abroad, identify those
that hold the greatest promise for Canada, and offer its recommendations on how
the federal government can support them.
Over the next year, the Panel
will seek to identify five promising areas of healthcare innovation in Canada
and internationally that have the potential to reduce growth in health spending
while leading to better care. The Panel will also be recommending ways in which
the federal government can support those innovations.
Stakeholder consultations
As part of its work, the Panel would like to hear from
stakeholders. This will be done through written submissions as well as
face-to-face meetings and consultations across Canada, beginning this fall. The
Panel is soliciting input on your experiences in dealing with innovation within
the healthcare system and what more can be done to support it in Canada.
Stakeholder consultations are
targeted at organizations and individuals involved in healthcare system
innovation, such as researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, charities,
professional associations or healthcare providers.
What is healthcare
innovation?
Healthcare
innovation involves a range of activities around the development, uptake and
adoption of new approaches that generate value in terms of quality and safety
of care, administrative efficiency, the patient experience, and patient
outcomes. Innovation can occur within a single healthcare facility or
department (micro-level), across a regional health system (meso-level) or at
the level of a provincial, territorial or national healthcare system
(macro-level).
The Panel
are interested in innovation that is cost-effective (i.e. yields a meaningful
improvement in health outcomes for a modest increase in expenditures), or,
better yet, that is cost-neutral with improved outcomes, or results in cost
savings for the health system with the same or better outcomes.
Innovation
depends on the support and interaction of three critical components:
·
Practice, which
encompasses people and the way they work. This is not only clinical practice,
but also includes processes and interactions between clinicians and patients,
clinicians and administrators, administrators and policymakers, etc.
·
Structure, which
includes physical, organizational, economic, legal or other mechanisms that
constrain or enable the actions of individuals in the system.
·
Culture: the shared
values, perceptions and opinions of individuals, and groups of individuals,
with the system.
What is the panel
interested in hearing about?
Successful
innovation requires partnerships that cut across multiple sectors – including governments,
healthcare providers and organizations, industry and research. For success,
especially at the macro-level, change is needed in practice, structure and/or
culture.
The Panel would
like to hear about innovation that is improving the healthcare system, and what
more needs to be done. This could relate to the successful introduction of new
technologies and tools, new ways of working, new ways of organizing and/or
financing healthcare, new ways of capturing and using information, and much
more. This is an opportunity for you to share big ideas and perspectives, which
would inform The Panel’s work and ultimately the advice it provides.
The Panel is interested in receiving written briefs from stakeholders of
no more than five (5) pages. To
assist you in drafting your submissions, go to http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/innovation/cons/_2014/chi-cis/consult-eng.php
to access a series of questions . Feel free to address some or all of these,
but please ensure that your submission does not exceed five pages in length.
Submissions will be accepted by email at innovation@hc-sc.gc.ca
Public
consultations
This
consultation is designed to offer all Canadians a chance to provide the Panel
with information about their experiences with the healthcare system.
Go to http://surveys-sondages.hc-sc.gc.ca/s/healthcare_innovation_soinsdesante/?l=en
where you can provide information about having seen or experienced innovations
in healthcare that you think other Canadians should know about. This could
include new ways in which doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers are
providing healthcare to you. It could also be about ways that you, as a
patient, have taken a new role in your own healthcare. Finally, it could be
about your ideas as a citizen and/or taxpayer.
This consultation
began on Tuesday, September 16th, and will end on Friday, November 14th, at
11:59 p.m. EST.
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