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Op Ed: Ontario’s hospitals: Pitfalls and opportunities for high-quality care

May 9, 2013

Sutherland and Hellsten publish Toronto Star commentary.

Op Ed: Should Canada punish hospitals for poor care? Other countries do it

April 26, 2013

Sutherland and Repin publish Globe and Mail commentary.

Op Ed: Hospital funding with few strings attached is now inexcusable

April 22, 2013

Sutherland and Repin publish a Toronto Sun op-ed.

Paying for Hospital Services: A Hard Look at the Options

April 18, 2013

An April 2013 report by Sutherland, Crump, Repin, and Hellsten published by the CD Howe Institute finds ABF is a viable complement to fixed annual lump sum budgets for rebalancing the financial incentives for Canadian hospitals.

New issue of Health Care Funding News

April 17, 2013

The April 2013 issue examines methods of measuring healthcare quality and costs and previews upcoming health care funding-related presentations.

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Hospitals and quality: Some initial thoughts on measurement and funding

March 25, 2013

We pay people to do things. It’s an underpinning of western civilization, which has evolved to a point where we pay people to do more of things we want. This concept holds remarkably true right up until we begin talking about healthcare. In healthcare, we either do not pay people to do things better (often in public systems), or paying people to do things better doesn’t seem to work. Paying hospitals for what they do is common elsewhere. Read more

Upcoming CAHSPR presentations

March 12, 2013

The Health Care Funding team will be giving two presentations at the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research conference in Vancouver in May. The first examines methods for analyzing costs of care and the second the effect of ABF in BC.

Funding health care in Quebec

February 28, 2013

The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement has released two reports by Sutherland, Repin, and Crump that review the roles of financial incentives in funding health care and then examine these incentives in the context of Montreal, Quebec.

Evidence and policy: How do we make a difference?

February 4, 2013

The track record for traction between evidence and policy is weak. We can also see that the relationship between evidence and policy is fluid, and subject to change based on politics, governments, public opinion and a host of other factors. How do we as researchers and subject experts, get our research and our voices heard by the right people? Read more

Reflections on bundled payments in Canada

January 9, 2013

What can we learn in Canada from US evidence about bundled payments? While costs of care and the overall sustainability of the healthcare system is a consideration in Canada, the more pressing reason to adopt bundled payments is related to quality, as bundles can address gaps in care between the acute care and post-acute care settings. Read more