‘Leading Health Care Innovation’ is a collaboration of the editors of the Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine. It is an eight-week online forum devoted to helping leaders, managers, and others in health care increase value by improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. The ‘insight center’ will run from Sept. 17 […]

Shhh. The 1200 people packed into the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University put down their paper airplanes and signal to each other to be quiet. The time has come. Five genuinely bemused, genuine Nobel Laureates are about to announce the 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes for science. The Ig Nobels were first awarded by the magazine […]

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort” John Ruskin Medicare Locals aim to improve the health of their communities. They will be ‘system redesigners’ for primary care, creating a more equitable, joined up system. And they will work to improve the quality and capacity of the GPs, specialists, allied […]

Will sent me this and seemed to think it was amusing. Looks perfectly fine to me.

My favourite podcast is the Therapeutics Education Collaboration Mike Allan is part of the podcast team, and is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta, He leads a group at the Alberta College of Family Physicians that produces “Tools for Practice“, a biweekly article summarizing medical evidence with a focus on […]