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Resolving the collision of public and private interests Issue #126 |
HEALTHCARE REFORM - We just can't wait any longer! Why and how to personalize healthcare services |
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Fusion Workshop 24OCT23 - FOR MORE |
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Last week |
Webinar - Episode #1 Healthcare Reform - The truth about political dynamics 4:00PM MST Thursday September 14th, 2023 |
Leaders are challenged to guide us and their organizations through a future of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Stephen Murgatroyd's webinar and interview, "Leadership - Navigating uncertainty", last week highlighted the sources and forces of change and the competencies required of our future leaders. HERE
HEALTHCARE REFORM - We just can't wait any longer!
Several years ago, the federal government introduced it's commitment to develop and operate a public health system. Thank you - the Honourable Thomas "Tommy" Douglas, who envisioned, built and tirelessly promoted Canada's national system of healthcare. His proposal in 1959 for a universal, pre-paid and publicly administered health care system in Saskatchewan introduced the first program of its kind in North America. Since then the focus has been on supply management supporting the system's development and warranting that citizens, patients, you, must tolerate waiting and from time to time sub-standard care. Primary has been the public's interest in ensuring the system develop within the boundaries of "public" tolerance as defined by the operator - the government in partnership with the regulated professions.
At some point accountability must shift from a focus on supply to demand - to the personalization of the system. When prompted, ChatGPT provided a succinct summary of the patient benefits of personalizing healthcare HERE including a reduction in theraputic misadventures HERE
The transition is underway, driven largely by decreasing tolerance among patients for waiting and voter intolerance of the ever persistent cry, always for more, more, more supply! Technology is contributing to an improvement in outcomes and service access, but it can also complicate expectations. Also complicating is that the population is changing: ageing, better educated, and more multi-cultural. There is also a growing pressure internally as so called managers act out their frustration that they lack the authority to innovate and do more than maintain the status quo and hence be more than adminstrators. Already there are corporate initiatives and practitioner breakaways responding to the changing demands of the healthcare market. Note also, recent and widespread public frustration with how the public health system managed Covid.
If real change is to occur it will require the owner - the governments, to acknowledge that system change is overdue. That the commitment to supply must transition to focus on the very reason the system was developed - for people. FOR MORE join us this Thursday. - Editor, KEInetwork.net
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WEBINAR Healthcare Reform - The truth about political dynamics Perry Kinkaide as the KEI Network's HOST will introduce and discuss with Ted Ball his experience and perspectives from a patient, taxpayer, citizen perspective the “lessons learned“ from success and failure in achieving patient-centric health system reform. 4:00PM MST Thursday September 14th, 2023 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82390691947
Ted Ball has served as Chief-of-Staff to two Bill Davis-era Ontario Ministers of Health— and as a policy speech-writer to NDP and Liberal Party Ministers of Health. He led Quantum Transformation Technologies, a capacity-building consulting firm, utilizing systems-thinking tools for Patient Experience Co-Design; for aligning systems, structures and processes to achieve the goals of the organization or local integrated delivery system; and for tapping into the collective intelligence of the organization. He has a full grasp of the management/ leadership challenges faced by healthcare leaders over the past twenty years as an executive and personal coach to top hospital CEOs, Community Care Access CEOs, and Local Health Integration Network CEOs. As a founding member of Patients Canada, and with a passion for patient experience co-design methodologies which have created “seamless, high-quality, compassionate care services for patients”, while also enabling patient family members and frontline healthcare professionals, to generate other additional improvements to the systems, structures and processes that can be improved for both patients and staff. |
Fusion Energy Workshop - Where are we at?
Visit HERE https://www.xcdsystem.com/cns/program/iP2V2Rk/index.cfm?pgid=1520
The Fusion Energy Council of Canada and Canadian Nuclear Society are cohosting a virtual workshop focussed on the commercialization of fusion energy on 24 October 2023. The workshop features twelve speakers, each presenting on the second successful fusion reaction in July, the rapid growth of private sector investments globally, and the various unique approaches to commercializing fusion energy by eight companies including Canada’s General Fusion. Fusion is often seen as a “science stuck in the future” however given recent advances fusion development it is rapidly becoming the ultimate energy solution delivering unlimited, clean, and safe energy to the world.
On 5 December2022, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California achieved, for the first time on Earth, a major net gain of fusion energy output to laser energy input providing “proof of possibility”.
This was a Kitty Hawk moment for fusion energy. When the Wright brothers first flew their heavier than air flying machine for just 12 seconds and 36 meters flight was no longer stuck in the future. Within 44-years supersonic flight was achieved and mass air travel in 50-years thanks to a collaboration of private, public and academic sectors at national and international levels. On 30 July 2023 NIF repeated the ignition and improved its performance.
According to the Fusion Industry Association (FIA) 2023 Global Fusion Energy Report https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/fusion-industry-reports/ :
- 43 private fusion companies were surveyed that,
- attracted US$6.21 bn from 27 investors and funders (up from 4.1 bn in 2022),
- 12 countries are active in fusion energy development, creating 975 direct jobs and 3000 in the supply chain,
- Four companies predict they will deliver power to the grid by 2030 and nineteen by 2035.
Current conditions are right for Canada to become a major contributor and beneficiary of fusion developments.
For more information about the WORKSHOP and REGISTRATION - visit CWFEST https://www.xcdsystem.com/cns/program/iP2V2Rk/index.cfm?pgid=1520