The role of government in health care delivery - 2nd annual ISAI Conference - 2009

2nd Annual Conference of the McGill University Health Centre’s Institute for Strategic Analysis and Innovation, August 19 and 20, 2009, Montreal

Osler Auditorium and Livingston Hall
Montreal General Hospital (MUHC)
1650 Cedar Ave., Montreal, Québec

Conference Chairs:  Welcome address
	The Honourable Arthur T. Porter, P.C. MD Director General and CEO, McGill University Health Centre	Bernard Lord Scholar-in-residence, MUHC Institute for Strategic Analysis and Innovation; President and CEO, Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association; former Premier of New Brunswick

About the McGill University Health Centre’s Institute for Strategic Analysis and Innovation:
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is strongly committed to a tradition of adopting, developing and deploying pioneering health care innovations to improve the quality of care and outcomes for the patients it serves. Recognizing that both the external policy environment and its own mandate were undergoing significant changes, the MUHC saw the need for better linkage between health care policy development and the hospital reality. In 2007, the MUHC created the Institute for Strategic Analysis and Innovation (ISAI). The Institute’s objective is to enable the MUHC as a tertiary care teaching hospital to contribute to the ongoing development of health care policy and promote innovations that improve patient outcomes.

Debate: “This House Believes that Government’s Only Role Is in Funding Health Care.”
Introduction: Mr. Bernard Lord
Moderator: The Hon. Arthur T. Porter
For the resolution: Sophie MacIntyre and Vinay Kumar Mysore from the McGill University Debating Club
Against the resolution: Robin McNamara and Michael Portner Gartke from the Queen’s University Debating Club

Panel: Recent and Planned Changes to Provincial Health Structures — Preparing for the Future
Chair: Dr. Penny Ballem, Vancouver City Manager, former Deputy Minister of Health, British Columbia
Speakers:
The Hon. Ron Liepert, Minister of Health, Alberta
Mr. Don Ferguson, Deputy Minister of Health, New Brunswick

Panel: The Role of Government in France and The Netherlands
Chair: Dr. Kieke Okma, Professor, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Speakers: Mr. Alain Hériaud, Director General, CHU de Bordeaux, France
Ms. Wilma Zwijnenburg, Vice President, Der Omring, The Netherlands

Keynote: Beyond the VHA — Opportunities to Improve Health Care Delivery across the U.S.
Dr. Robert Kolodner, Former Chief Health Informatics Officer, Veterans Health Administration;
Former National Coordinator, Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services