WEBINAR

HEALTHCARE REFORM - Making it real this time!

Perry Kinkaide as the KEI Network's HOST will introduce the panel Chair - Denis Vincent who will facilitate a panel discussion with Ted Ball, Peter Fenwick, and Shawn Whatley.  The discussion is about transitioning Canada's healthcare system from one dominated by supply considerations to one that is focused and accountable for patient care whether it be from a patient or practitionner, taxpayer or citizen perspective.

4:00PM MST Thursday

September 28th, 2023

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82390691947

  Denis Vincent - CHAIR.  Family physician and Founder Medical Director of EZReferral.org  Denis has over 35 years of experience as a family doctor in both rural and urban settings in Alberta including 10 years in the Peace River country and Edmonton the last 24 years. He has seen it all - the swings of the health reform pendulum over the years.  Borne out of frustration he developed EZReferral, a cloud based, patient-centric medical referral platform designed to streamline communication between all health care providers AND the patient with the goal to save time, save frustration, save our health care system money, and above all to save lives.  www.ezreferral.org

PANEL

 Shsawn Whatley is a highly regarded figure in healthcare policy, politics, financing, leadership, and management. He is known for his practical approach to driving change in healthcare through public speaking, consulting, writing, and book publication. Shawn is a collaborative and energetic alliance builder who empowers teams while challenging inefficient processes while preserving the dignity of his colleagues.

Currently, Shawn holds the position of Munk Senior Fellow in Health Care at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. He served as the Past President of the Ontario Medical Association, a Board Director of the Canadian Medical Association, and a Physician Leader/Medical Director of the Emergency Services Program at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, ON. Additionally, he is a faculty member of the International Master of Health Leadership Program at McGill University in Montreal.

Shawn is an accomplished communicator, with two bestselling: When Politics Comes Before Patients—Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing and No More Lethal Waits – 10 Steps to Transform Canada’s Emergency Departments. He is published across Canada inlcuding more than 60 articles for Canadian Healthcare Network and his blog has received over 3.5 million visits. His recent National Post article HERE highlights Sweden's approach to the pandemic, emphasizing the success of voluntary measures over mandatory masking policies.

   Peter Fenwick has a diverse career with public and private sector experience, including executive roles inside government, health insurance, multi-national health technology firms, health service delivery, digital health start-ups, all with transformative change and value creation mandates.

Former Deputy Minister in the Ontario Cabinet Office co-chairing transformation tables during a time of system-wide consolidation inside the Ontario health system; this included creation of Ontario Health Teams. Senior Leadership Team (former) of Alberta Health Services; one major initiative being decentralization of AHS decision making via creating Self-Managed Operating Units. Collaborated with the City of Airdrie to establish Abrio Health (Co-operative) to guide primary care payment reform.

Peter is currently on the faculty of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Lethbridge and also has a staff role at Mount Royal University’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Calgary). He is a board member of the Imagine Citizens Network, an Alberta-based network of people and community-minded partners that creates pathways of citizen voices to transform the healthcare system.

   Ted Ball was the featured guest in Episode #1 of our HEALTHCARE REFORM series HERE. He 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. Ted 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.