Health committee  Having been a patient myself of one of Dr. Bohm's colleagues—after five months in a wheelchair I walked here from my hotel this morning—I have to say they do great work. That's the voice of the customer, but I don't want to end up in his retrieval lab somehow. We actually did a

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I am suggesting support for research and education provided by university partners on a subject such as Lean transformation in health care. As I understand it, that is not solely a provincial responsibility. Yesterday, I was having breakfast with th

Health committee  It's more like $1,500. But acute cases are much more expensive than patients who stay for a long time.

Health committee  Good morning, Madam Chair and members. I want to thank the members who are here today. It's a privilege to be here, so I want to thank you for that. I got a bit worried when I saw the title of this session. It said “Technological Innovation”. What I want to talk about isn't r

Finance committee  Thank you, and thank you for the kind words. John Toussaint is one of the world leaders in the lean movement. He's the CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and as such has dealt with 60 organizations. We collaborate already quite closely with them in terms of how we

Finance committee  Briefly, there are two pieces. On the research part, the return doesn't come to the hospital but to society, because the jobs are created outside of us by the people we help along. On the health care side, our own return on investment is so far about six to one: for every doll

Finance committee  On the one hand, that is absolutely true. On the other hand, I think that the current health care system is not compatible with peoples' needs. In fact, the people with the most needs are those who are the least well-off. The health care system should be adjusted based on those

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I was going to start by saying thank you for the opportunity to talk about some daunting challenges, but when you said speak slowly and do it in five minutes, that just replaced the first challenge. However, I'