The Canadian medical system does a much better job of developing innovations than implementing them, according to Anne Snowdon with the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation.
She told a recent symposium in Chatham we have top technologies and among the best trained medical staff.
"We are on the bottom of being able to adopt (innovation) into our health care system and achieve much greater health outcomes for the people we serve," says Snowdon. "Canada has not been a country that has zeroed in on creating very robust community-based services to help them stay well or prevent them from needing a hospital."
As well as needing the services, she says one problem is the many layers in the health care system don't communicate well with each other.
