Here is the latest project update.
Gopal Sreenivasan (Philosophy) and Arthur Ripstein (Law) are developing a principled framework for decision making based on research into 'values'. Presentations from the "Healing with Dollars and Sense" workshop are available on the project website now. A report summary will be posted soon.
Background papers prepared by Natalie de Paulsen and Lisa Minuk on financial incentives with respect to Clinical Practice Guidelines and financial incentives with respect to Drug Formularies are now available on-line.
William Orovan and Carolyn Tuohy continue to work on their paper regarding physician compensation models.
Mark Stabile's paper on the effects of de-listing services is now available on the project website.
The project hosted a very successful workshop for Health Canada examining the impact of judicial decisions on health policy. Participants heard from Chris Manfredi, Martha Jackman, Lisa Forman and Christopher Newdick. There were panel discussions with a number of leading scholars responding to the presentations and Greg Marchildon gave a lunchtime speech and led a discussion session to close the day. A report will be posted to the website very soon.
Mita Giacomini and Colleen Flood are currently collaborating on work to examine decisions made by the Ontario HSARB. They intend present their research to the CAHSPR conference in September 2005.
Evidence, Argumentation, and Evaluation in Appeals of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan's Coverage Decisions
Mita Giacomini and Colleen Flood
They empirically analyzed argumentation and reasoning used to settle individual challenges to health technology coverage decisions through the Ontario Health Services Appeal and Review Board. The findings provide insight into how citizens intuitively invoke evidence and values to characterize health technologies that are controversial priorities for public funding.
Also at the CAHSPR conference, Colleen Flood and Mark Stabile will combine with the other CHSRF Medicare Basket team led by Tom Rathwell (Dalhousie) to present on the theme of Defining the Medicare Basket.
Colleen Flood continues to edit a volume of papers based on the National Health Law Conference 2004. The book is called "The Frontiers of Fairness" and will be published by the University of Toronto Press. Colleen will also be speaking in NZ on the SARS crisis and the lessons that can be learned from that event.
Colleen Flood and Peter Coyte helped to produce the following article for the Longwoods Review:
The First Ministers' Accord on Health Renewal and the Future of Home Care in Canada
Sanober S. Motiwala, Colleen M. Flood, Peter C. Coyte and Audrey Laporte
Longwoods Review Vol.2, No.4, 2005