Change accelerator: COVID-19

It is possible, likely even, that some long-advocated changes to health care’s organizational structure and ways of working will have been shown to be so effective that they will remain imbedded in the 'new normal' when the crisis is over.

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that problems previously thought intractable can be resolved, and quickly, by local/regional care providers working together as integrated systems, using their own resources and ingenuity.Image courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY Don Drummond, Chris Simpson, Duncan Sinclair, and David Walker

April 27, 2020

“Our business is at an inflection point. We can continue down the path we’ve been on … or we can make the significant and difficult changes necessary, " said Gavin Hattersley, Molson Coors CEO to The Globe and Mail recently, and so it may be with health care after COVID-19. Many cris...

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