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08/13/2026

🎧 Listen to the full episode of the Reimagine Healthcare Podcast:
https://www.medfarsolutions.com/en/reimagine-healthcare-ep3-dr-julie-wilson/?utm_source=META&utm_medium=+organic+social&utm_campaign=Podcast+3+EN+-+Dr+Wilson&utm_id=701OJ00000pykp1YAA&fbclid=IwY2xjawTqu5BwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMXVLMmtTNGdqNWlwOU1jQlhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe8qboa-Q_Mh_IdUTfHSrwr8uU6hK_5YnN0fLOtlqt_dAHeOnhU2KjG98-4n0_aem_TQj-7OtQgJxeGgLtLUN-uA

If you woke up tomorrow as Minister of Health, what would be the very first thing you'd do?

For Dr. Julie Wilson, founder of Terra Nova Medical Clinics, the answer starts somewhere far less obvious than funding or reform.

It starts with bridging the data gap.

Healthcare policy is only as effective as the data behind it. Yet too often, major decisions are based on incomplete pictures of patient access, clinic capacity, and system performance.

When policymakers can't fully see reality, it's difficult to allocate resources where they're needed most or design solutions that address the real challenges facing clinics and patients.

For Dr. Wilson, better data isn't a nice-to-have.

It's the foundation for better policy.

Before new funding models. Before another healthcare reform. Before deciding how primary care should evolve.

We need a clearer understanding of what patients are experiencing, what clinics are facing, and where the gaps truly exist.

Because once you can accurately measure the pressures on primary care, you can start asking better questions.

How should clinics be funded? How can they remain financially sustainable? What role should technology and AI play? How do we build organizations resilient enough to meet growing demand while improving access to care?

Those conversations all start with understanding the problem.

La crise qui fragilise les cliniques canadiennes ne se joue pas seulement dans les salles d’examen. Elle se joue aussi d...
08/04/2026

La crise qui fragilise les cliniques canadiennes ne se joue pas seulement dans les salles d’examen. Elle se joue aussi derrière le comptoir d’accueil, où la charge administrative devient de plus en plus difficile à gérer.

Derrière chaque rendez-vous, chaque référence et chaque suivi se cache une charge administrative de plus en plus lourde. Gestion des horaires, communications avec les patients, facturation, documentation, coordination des résultats : ces tâches sont essentielles au fonctionnement d’une clinique, mais elles reposent sur des équipes déjà sous pression.

Le problème n’est pas que ces équipes ne travaillent pas assez fort.

Le problème est qu’on leur demande d’absorber toujours plus de responsabilités dans un environnement où il devient difficile de recruter, de former et de retenir du personnel qualifié.

Le remplacement d’un seul membre du personnel administratif peut coûter entre 25 000 $ et 30 000 $ à une clinique, sans compter la perte de continuité, le temps consacré au recrutement et la pression supplémentaire imposée au reste de l’équipe.

Sur un revenu brut annuel typique de 330 000 $, environ 75 000 $, soit 23 %, sont consacrés aux frais généraux, dont une grande partie sert à soutenir une charge administrative croissante.

Mais les conséquences ne sont pas uniquement financières.

Lorsque l’administration atteint ses limites, c’est la capacité de la clinique à répondre aux patients, à maintenir ses opérations et à offrir des soins de façon durable qui est directement touchée.

Dans notre plus récent article, nous explorons cette crise souvent invisible et les raisons pour lesquelles le fardeau administratif doit être considéré comme un enjeu central du système de santé canadien.

Parce que mieux soutenir les soins, c’est aussi mieux soutenir tout ce qui les rend possibles.

Lire l’article complet : https://www.medfarsolutions.com/fr/administration-clinique-le-probleme-silencieux/?utm_source=META&utm_medium=organic+social&utm_campaign=Blog+2+FR

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The crisis putting pressure on Canadian clinics is not happening only in the exam room. It is also unfolding behind the front desk, where the administrative work that keeps care moving is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.

Behind every appointment, referral, and follow-up is a growing administrative workload. Scheduling, patient communication, billing, documentation, and results coordination are all essential to keeping a clinic running, yet they increasingly fall on teams that are already stretched thin.

The problem is not that these teams are not working hard enough.

The problem is that they are being asked to absorb more and more responsibility in an environment where recruiting, training, and retaining qualified staff has become increasingly difficult.

Replacing a single support staff member can cost a clinic between $25,000 and $30,000, not including the loss of continuity, the time spent recruiting, and the added pressure placed on the rest of the team.

Of a typical annual gross revenue of $330,000, approximately $75,000, or 23%, is spent on overhead, much of it driven by the growing administrative burden.

But the consequences are not only financial.

When administrative capacity reaches its limit, a clinic’s ability to respond to patients, maintain operations, and deliver care sustainably is directly affected.

In our latest article, we explore this often-overlooked crisis and why administrative burden must be recognized as a central issue in Canadian health care.

Because supporting better care also means supporting everything that makes it possible.

Read the full article: https://www.medfarsolutions.com/en/clinic-administration-crisis/?utm_source=META&utm_medium=organic+social&utm_campaign=Blog+2+EN

Découvrez les coûts cachés liés à la gestion administrative des cliniques au Canada, notamment l'épuisement professionnel des médecins, les pénuries de personnel dans les cabinets médicaux, la charge de travail administratif et les frais généraux des cabinets.

07/24/2026

🎧 Listen to the full episode of the Reimagine Healthcare Podcast: https://www.medfarsolutions.com/en/reimagine-healthcare-ep3-dr-julie-wilson/?utm_source=META&utm_medium=+organic+social&utm_campaign=Podcast+3+EN+-+Dr+Wilson&utm_id=701OJ00000pykp1YAA

Primary care isn't becoming harder because clinics are doing something wrong.

It's becoming harder because the economics of delivering care have fundamentally changed.

That's exactly what Dr. Julie Wilson, founder of Terra Nova Medical Clinics, explores in the latest episode of the Reimagine Healthcare Podcast.

Over the past decade, the cost of delivering care has steadily increased. Equipment is more expensive. Technology has become essential. Every year, clinics are expected to do more with increasingly sophisticated tools, while operating in a funding model that hasn't kept pace.

In most industries, rising costs can eventually be reflected in higher prices. Primary care works differently. Clinics operate within a publicly funded reimbursement model where revenue is largely fixed, leaving little flexibility to absorb rising costs. As a result, the gap between what it costs to provide care and what clinics are paid continues to widen.

The consequence isn't just financial pressure.

It leaves many clinics with little room to absorb unexpected costs, invest in innovation, or build the resilience needed to meet growing patient demand.

For Dr. Wilson, that's precisely why the traditional one-doctor, one-clinic model is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Her answer wasn't simply to build a bigger organization. It was to build a network of clinics where scale creates resilience: shared resources, specialized teams, stronger purchasing power, and the ability to keep investing in patient care despite growing economic pressure.

This isn't a conversation about growth for growth's sake.

It's a conversation about building healthcare organizations that are sustainable, resilient, and equipped to deliver better access to care for years to come

07/23/2026

🎧 Écoutez l'épisode complet du balado Réinventer les soins de santé avec le Dr Richard Belley : https://www.medfarsolutions.com/fr/reinventer-les-soins-de-sante-ep3-dr-belley/?utm_source=META&utm_medium=+oragnic+social&utm_campaign=Podcast+3+FR+-+Dr+Belley&utm_id=701OJ00000pykp1YAA

Comment bâtir un système de première ligne qui soit réellement accessible ?

Pour le Dr Richard Belley, la question ne commence pas par la technologie, ni même par les modèles de rémunération. Elle commence par une organisation plus cohérente des soins.

Attribuer chaque citoyen à une clinique plutôt que de laisser des milliers de patients naviguer entre les points de service est une vision qui invite à repenser les fondements mêmes de notre système.

Mais cette réflexion va beaucoup plus loin.

Une première ligne durable ne repose pas uniquement sur des réformes structurelles. Elle exige aussi de redonner aux équipes cliniques les moyens de faire leur travail.

Cela passe par :
• réduire le poids administratif qui freine les soins;
• créer des communautés de pratique où les cliniques apprennent les unes des autres sans perdre leur autonomie;
• investir davantage dans la prévention plutôt que d'intervenir uniquement lorsque la maladie est installée;
• adopter l'IA comme un outil d'accompagnement qui libère du temps et de la charge cognitive, jamais comme un remplacement de l'humain.

Au fond, la question n'est pas seulement de savoir comment soigner davantage de patients.

C'est de construire un système où chaque patient sait où recevoir ses soins, où chaque clinique a les moyens d'assumer sa mission, et où les professionnels peuvent consacrer leur énergie à ce qui compte vraiment : les patients.

Dans cet extrait, le Dr Richard Belley partage sa vision d'une première ligne plus simple, plus accessible et plus durable.

🎧 L'épisode complet du balado Réinventer les soins de santé explore ces idées en profondeur.

07/08/2026

Most family clinics run on one doctor, one assistant, and no safety net.

Dr. Julie Wilson decided that model was already obsolete everywhere except here.

On this episode of the Reimagine Healthcare Podcast, Dr. Wilson, founder of Terra Nova Medical Clinics, shares how she built one of BC's largest primary care networks: 250,000+ patients, 100+ clinicians, and a structure that looks nothing like the traditional solo practice.

Her reasoning is simple. Large, collaborative physician groups already work everywhere else. Kaiser Permanente runs on 4,000 family doctors working together. Australia scaled the same way years ago. The solo model wasn't surviving anywhere but here.

A few things that stood out:

Scale isn't just growth. It's survival infrastructure.

Bigger networks can afford dedicated HR, accounting, and IT roles, instead of one overwhelmed person wearing every hat. That same scale creates real career paths for staff. In fact, 40% of people who joined Terra Nova did so specifically for the career growth opportunity. Add stronger negotiating power with suppliers, and economy of scale stops being a nice-to-have. It becomes the only path that holds up.

Culture isn't a perk program. It's the operating system.

Common goal. "We are here for each other." Real access to the founder. Benefits that are actually invested in, not just listed. That's the actual recipe, according to Dr. Wilson, not ping pong tables.

AI doesn't cut jobs. It exposes the ones that never existed.

Her line on this is the sharpest moment in the episode: an AI receptionist isn't replacing anyone. It's picking up the screening exam that never got booked, the rash that never got seen. The backlog was always there. AI just makes it visible.

The economics nobody wants to say out loud.

Equipment costs are up roughly 4x in a decade. Fee schedules haven't moved with inflation. Rent alone is now a real survival risk for many clinics. Dr. Wilson's blunt take: what looks like running a business is often clinicians quietly subsidizing the system out of their own margins.

If she ran the Ministry of Health for a day?

Not more funding announcements. Fixing the data. Most of the public, and most policymakers, have never seen the real numbers behind a family doctor's financial fragility. You can't fix what you can't see.

This conversation isn't a case for scale for its own sake. It's a case for building the infrastructure, financial, cultural, and technological, that lets primary care absorb pressure instead of breaking under it.

🎧 Full episode of the Reimagine Healthcare Podcast linked below.

https://www.medfarsolutions.com/en/reimagine-healthcare-ep3-dr-julie-wilson/?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=Podcast+3+-+Dr+Wilson

The MEDFAR team is heading to e-Health 2026 in Halifax! 🚀Join us on June 14–16 to discover how MYLE and our AI-powered s...
06/09/2026

The MEDFAR team is heading to e-Health 2026 in Halifax! 🚀

Join us on June 14–16 to discover how MYLE and our AI-powered solutions are helping healthcare organizations work smarter, faster, and more efficiently.

We’ll be showcasing innovations designed to reduce administrative burden and enhance clinical workflows, including:

🔹 AI Indexing for incoming documents
🔹 AI Form Filling to automatically complete forms after consultations
🔹 AI Scribe to streamline clinical documentation and save valuable time

Come meet our team to learn more about MEDFAR’s vision for AI in healthcare. We’ll also be offering live demonstrations of our latest AI innovations and showing how these tools are already transforming clinical workflows.

A special thank you to Investissement Québec for supporting our presence at e-Health 2026.

Most clinic leaders track patient outcomes. Some track output and resource utilization. Very few look closely at financi...
05/22/2026

Most clinic leaders track patient outcomes. Some track output and resource utilization. Very few look closely at financial return and that's a problem.

After nearly 20 years managing family health teams, Christopher Fisher knows the tension well: you're in the business of caring for people, so quality metrics feel like the obvious priority. But a clinic that ignores its financial health won't be able to sustain the care it delivers. The financial metric isn't separate from patient care, it's what makes it possible long term.

What metrics does your organization actually use to define success? And isn't it time financial return gets a seat at the table?

🎧 Full episode: https://www.medfarsolutions.com/en/reimagine-healthcare-ep2-christopher-fisher/?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=Podcast+2+-+Christopher+Fisher

Discover how Christopher Fisher helps clinics improve performance by combining profitability, patient experience, and sustainable care.

The MEDFAR team will be at PRI-MED in Toronto from May 6–8! 🚀Come visit us at Booth  #341–343 to discover MYLE and explo...
05/04/2026

The MEDFAR team will be at PRI-MED in Toronto from May 6–8! 🚀

Come visit us at Booth #341–343 to discover MYLE and explore our AI-powered features transforming healthcare across Canada.

We’ll be showcasing our innovations, including AI Indexing for incoming documents, AI Form Filling to automatically complete documents after consultations, and our built-in AI Scribe designed to streamline clinical documentation.

And don’t miss the opportunity to meet our Co-founder, Elias Farah, and see these innovations in action.

04/28/2026

L'Association médicale canadienne l'a confirmé en janvier dernier :

la moitié des médecins canadiens présentent des symptômes dépressifs.

Et parmi eux, plus de la moitié identifient le fardeau administratif comme contributeur direct à leur épuisement.

Copier-coller. Saisir des notes. Remplir des formulaires.
Des tâches chronophages, répétitives, et vides de sens clinique.

La question qui suit est simple, mais lourde :
qui veut se faire soigner par quelqu'un qui est sur le bord de partir ?

C'est là qu'une réflexion sur l'IA en santé devient non seulement pertinente, mais urgente.

Pas pour remplacer les soignants mais pour leur rendre du temps, de l'énergie, et du sens.

Dans ce nouvel épisode du balado Réinventer les soins de santé, nous avons eu le plaisir d'accueillir le Dr Samuel Gareau-Lajoie pour parler de :

- L'ampleur réelle de l'épuisement professionnel chez les médecins
- Le poids des tâches administratives sur les soignants
- Comment l'IA peut absorber le travail répétitif
- Ce que ça pourrait changer concrètement pour les équipes de soins

🎙️ Regardez l'épisode complet : https://www.medfarsolutions.com/fr/reinventer-les-soins-de-sante-ep2-dr-gareau-lajoie/?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=organic+social&utm_campaign=Podcast+Samuel+Gareau+lajoie+FR

Selon vous, où l'IA a-t-elle le plus grand potentiel pour alléger le quotidien des soignants ?

Merci au Dr Samuel Gareau-Lajoie pour cette discussion inspirante.

04/22/2026

Everyone talks about the healthcare crisis in Canada.

But almost no one talks about how clinics actually run.

And that’s a problem.

Because access to care doesn’t just fail at the system level.
It breaks inside clinics, every single day.

Not from lack of effort.
From how things are structured.

In this episode of our podcast, Elias Farah, CEO of MEDFAR, sits down with Christopher Fisher, founder of Ontario Partners in Health (OPiH) and Capital Digital Canada, who works behind the scenes with primary care clinics to help them run better.

→ Listen to the full episode here: https://www.medfarsolutions.com/en/reimagine-healthcare-ep2-christopher-fisher?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=Podcast+-+Christopher+Fisher

With a non-traditional background in political science, Christopher brings a pragmatic lens to one of healthcare’s biggest challenges: building clinics that are both effective and sustainable.

He shares what he sees across clinics every day:

→ Why clinics avoid thinking about revenue
→ How operations become an afterthought
→ Why patient experience has no clear owner
→ And why “working harder” becomes the default solution

It’s not sustainable. And it’s not fixing access.

This conversation dives into the uncomfortable but necessary question:

What actually needs to change at the clinic level if we want the system to work?

Curious to hear your take, what do you think is the biggest blind spot in primary care today?

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