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Alex Jadad Named in TIME Magazine

A recent issue of TIME Magazine (April 8, 2002) featured an article entitled "The Cutting Edge" with the byline "New technologies and a wave of post-boomer talent are winning renown for Canadian medicine." The article "highlights the most important trend in Canadian health care: a shift from the era of scarcity and brain drain to a scene dominated by new technologies and a new generation of researchers that have a truly international impact." Mentioned in the piece is Alex Jadad, HPME Professor, and Director of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, who is "connecting clinicians and researchers, social scientists, engineers and computer specialists to produce research with a depth he says no individual could achieve on their own."

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First Do No Harm: Making Sense of Canadian Health Reform

By Terrence Sullivan and Patricia M. Baranek
Malcolm Lester, 108 pages, $12.95

First Do No Harm, authored by Terrence Sullivan, Associate Professor with HPME, and Patricia Baranek, HPME graduate, was released in May 2002 and discusses the sustainability of Canada's Medicare system.

A reviewer for the Globe and Mail noted that the book "is a primer on health-care reform. It also explains how medicare works and, more important, how it needs to work." and "It is slim but weighty at the same time…the authors make smart recommendations, including national standards for home care -- something that's urgently needed."

Terry Sullivan highlights the contribution of other HPME researchers, notably Peter Coyte, Colleen Flood and Raisa Deber, who developed policy papers related to health reform in Canada. Many of the facts and figures within the book are drawn from those policy papers.

The policy documents were originally prepared for the Dialogue on Health Reform, an initiative that engaged Canadian leaders in business, academia, health care, and politics to discuss the benefits of universal public insurance in health care and promote sensible reform efforts in two specific areas: improved home care and better waiting list management. With funding from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation, the Dialogue on Health Reform commissioned various reports, all available through the HPME web site , and coordinated a National Leadership Roundtable on Health Reform with Terry Sullivan as Chair of the Steering Committee.

First Do No Harm is an important book on many fronts…it serves to emphasize the work of the Dialogue on Health Reform; its release coincides with the work of the Romanow Commission and its content fuels those discussions; and it also highlights the significant role played by HPME-affiliated researchers in improving the quality of the Canadian health care system.

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