Policy Database

Doctors of BC Position: In response to the Ministry of Health’s paper: Enabling Effective, Quality Population and Patient-Centred Care: A Provincial Strategy for Health Information Management and Technology, Doctors of BC carried out extensive consultation with its members. Two themes emerged from the consultation, it’s important to prioritize health information exchange and patient-centred care must come after the foundations for IM/IT are laid.

Doctors of BC Position: To create effective partnerships with physicians, Doctors of BC encourages health organizations to provide physicians with meaningful opportunities for physicians to participate in health service and system planning, they should support physicians’ ability to advocate about quality concerns, and their medical leadership should be valued and adequately resourced.

Doctors of BC Position: Within this paper, Doctors of BC refers to Patient-Focused Funding or PFF, which is any method of compensating providers (e.g., individual providers, hospitals) that uses incentives and supports to improve the appropriateness, quality, and efficiency of care for patients. To be successful, patient-focused funding models should be developed collaboratively with physicians, models should be monitored and evaluated, and they should be delivered with flexibility to respond to provider performance and evolving program goals.