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Opinion: Montreal's Jewish General Hospital is rebuilding health care without government help

The initiative is funded entirely through donations, delivered faster and at a fraction of the cost of comparable public efforts

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A few Saturdays ago, we were sitting at home reading the news when we came across a piece about the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. It stopped us, not because it was another healthcare headline, but because it was something rare. It was a story about execution.

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The hospital took matters into its own hands. Instead of waiting for the rest of the system to catch up, it began modernizing its own information systems.

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We had no idea a hospital could operate like this. It felt more like a startup than an almost 100-year-old institution.

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