Health Systems Management
A PhD Student’s Search for Balance in Healthcare Resources
Telfer PhD candidate, Peyman Varshoei, started his doctoral journey in 2017 when he moved from Iran to Ottawa. Since then, he has started on his three-chaptered thesis for his PhD in Management with a Specialization in Health Systems. He met his wife (Elmira Mirbahaeddin) who is also a doctoral candidate in the same PhD program at Telfer School. Read more ›
When will Canadian health care fully ride the digital connectivity wave?
Access and use of digital health tools remains uneven, and system interoperability inconsistent. Federal leadership is needed to drive change. Read more ›
Telfer MHA Students are Shaping a Healthier Debate for Health Care in Canada
Our Master of Health Administration (MHA) students are shaping a healthier debate with their final assignment as part of the Health Care in Canada course (MHA6360). This course, led by Assistant Professor Agnes Grudniewicz, consists of an interesting project as the final class assignment which involves an online publication opportunity. The students were to prepare an opinion article on a chosen topic of interest with the ultimate objective of being published in Healthy Debate, a Canadian online publication that aims to provide easy-to-understand information about the health care system. Read more ›
Researcher looks into e-health and telehomecare applications among elderly patients
A first-of-its-kind Canada-wide survey of seniors’ health technology-related behavior. Read more ›
Craig Kuziemsky Presented a Study on Unintended Benefits of Health Information Systems
Craig Kuziemsky tackled the unintended benefits of introducing health information systems (HIS) at the European Medical Informatics Conference in Pisa, Italy on Aug. 27. Professor Kuziemsky and a team of researchers from Canada, Denmark, and Australia used several case studies of HIS implementation to develop a model of unintended benefits of HIS usage with three categories of benefits: patient, service delivery and administrative. They also examined the implications of these benefits on the design and evaluation of HISs. The benefits were not visible until after these systems were used in real clinical situations and settings. This was in contrast to studies of negative consequences of HIS implementation, which are often easier to identify because they raise issues which tend to draw immediate attention. Read more ›
