SCAN Health’s latest study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic’s inaugural wave impacted the professional autonomy of family physicians in Canada. This study highlights how family physician’s resilience enabled them to overcome the many challenges they faced to provide health services to patients and has enabled them to rebuild their sense of purpose and duty of care.

The word “innovation” permeates headlines as well as public and private sector policies, programs, and projects. But what does it actually take to implement innovative practices that improve lives?

SCAN Health announces partnership with the “Integrated Network for the Surveillance of Pathogens: Increasing Resilience and Capacity in Canada’s Pandemic Response” at the University of Windsor.

Dr. Anne Snowdon, CEO and Scientific Director of SCAN Health, joins a renowned group of experts in her appointment as a member of the Ontario Research Fund Advisory Board (ORFAB).

SCAN Health announces new leadership for its board of directors. Ms. Lynne Golding, a distinguished health law leader, will succeed Ms. Martha Huston as president of SCAN Health.

Dr. Anne Snowdon, SCAN Health’s CEO and Scientific Director, will deliver a live presentation to professionals from various sectors of the global healthcare ecosystem at the HIMSS23 Global Conference in Chicago, Illinois from April 17 to 21.

As part of a COVID-19 rapid research response program, a group of Canadian researchers have developed 16 publications over the past three years that examined the effectiveness of federal-provincial-territorial supply chain coordination during the pandemic.

Dr. Anne Snowdon joins Huge Moves in a new interview to share her perspective on the global supply chain crisis, exposing challenges in the system of delivering goods.

SCAN Health is pleased to provide its partners with access to a knowledge Mobilization platform that enables collaboration, coordination, and communication within the community of practice (CoP) for health supply chain resilience.

Dr. Anne Snowdon led a session on Digital Health Transformation as a Strategy to Advance Equity in Global Health Systems. This session focused on examining the role of digital transformation in advancing health system performance, including workforce sustainability, patient experience, quality and safety.

This October, SCAN Health organized its first in-person Dialogue Forum to bring its Community of Practice members together to engage, collaborate and discuss supply chain resilience in Canadian health care systems.

Dr. Anne Snowdon joined the SCMAO Healthcare Supply Chain and Procurement Leadership Series 3.0 webinar as a keynote speaker to discuss the topic of Advancing Supply Chain Resilience for Canadian Health Systems. She shared various implications related to the pandemic’s impact on the capacity and agility of the Canadian healthcare supply chain to manage unprecedented demands to support the health and wellness of Canadians and the health workforce.

Dr. Anne Snowdon, Scientific Director and CEO, SCAN Health, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Odette School of Business, and Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS has been awarded $2,489,160 to develop a community of practice (CoP) to advance supply chain resilience, workforce sustainability and economic recovery in Canada’s post-pandemic future.

Amidst the second wave of COVID-19, a successful vaccination campaign is widely viewed as the only way to overcome the pandemic. Although healthcare providers and industry worldwide have responded with an unprecedented rapid mass development of COVID-19 vaccines, Canada, like almost every country around the world, is facing challenges in mobilizing the capacity needed for rapid implementation of vaccination.

This paper, Key Characteristics of a Fragile Healthcare Supply Chain: Learning from a Pandemic, describes the key characteristics of health supply chain fragility, which has been informed by the experiences and perspectives of health and health supply chain leaders and stakeholders in Canadian health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year, SCAN Health’s groundbreaking, virtual business case competition provided students with the opportunity to develop solutions to a real-world challenge faced by health systems around the world – the coronavirus.

A recent event hosted by GS1 brought together senior healthcare industry leaders from Deloitte, The World Bank, the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists and the World Health Organization to discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities and early learnings presented by the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.

Dr. Snowdon shared the findings of her COVID-19 Rapid Response–funded research that investigates and compares supply chain issues in the healthcare system throughout the pandemic.

SCAN Health is pleased to announce the short-listed teams in the SCAN Health Virtual Business Case Competition 2021.

It is long overdue for Canada to create a comprehensive digital strategy that ensures data (e.g. population data, supply data, and workforce health data) is available in real time, within and across jurisdictions, to inform leadership decisions that are proactive, able to anticipate risks and implement preventive measures to ensure every Canadian and health worker has the protection needed to sustain health, wellness and quality of life.