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Longwoods eLetter January 6, 2009

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“The greatest quality improvement opportunities happen at the organizational level, where performance reports are scarce.” (PDF) Click here for more.

• Neil Seeman wonders: Is the PHR like the “executive physical”? Some have suggested that personal health records (PHRs) – a system whereby patients enjoy custodial rights to their secure health data anytime, anywhere – is a privilege that appeals just to the wealthy, healthy or “worried well.” Click and read it here.
• Denis Protti reviews the book “High Performing Healthcare Systems” by Ross Baker. A review that brings the whole topic into focus. Download PDF. Click here to download the book or read it online.
• Steven Lewis contemplates: “I dunno, maybe it's the season, but I feel especially moved by the plight of doctors at the bottom of the medical politics food chain.” Read: A Man for All Sections: Physicians, Heed Thy Hobbes.
• Dorothy Pringle asks: How Well Protected Are Canadian Research Participants: Who Knows?

Journal Sale | For one week only
The following journals offer an electronic subscription for one year at $25.00. Healthcare Quarterly, Electronic Healthcare, Healthcare Policy, Nursing Leadership, World Health and Population. Order here: Make sure you select “Online Only.”

2008 Quality and Innovation Awards Results (CQCO, Cancer Care Ontario, Canadian Cancer Society). See them here.

An idea whose time has come
An Investment Opportunity with Two-Fold Return. Help two Ontario farm girls complete medical school.
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Nursing Leadership Conference. February 8-10, 2009 | Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
Hear, debate and hold to account: Kaaren Neufeld, president, Canadian Nurses Association | Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and author | Suzanne Gordon, journalist and author | Jeffrey Simpson, national affairs columnist, The Globe and Mail | Andrew Coyne, national editor, Maclean’s | Chantal Hébert, national affairs writer, Toronto Star | Joy Richards, president-elect, Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses | Sioban Nelson, dean, Lawrence S. Bloomberg faculty of nursing at the University of Toronto | Lynn Stevenson, chief nursing executive, Vancouver Island Health | Diane Bewick, director, Family Health Services, Middlesex-London Health Unit. To register visit here.

Keeping Track
The findings of a third party evaluation of Lake of the Woods District Hospital (LWDH) in Kenora were undertaken and presented presented to the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) Board by Randy Penney, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Renfrew Victoria and St. Francis Memorial Hospitals.

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Daily Health and Healthcare News. Compiled by our Editors and Canadian Press.
Flu trends - up to the minute updates from Google.
Listeriosis up to the minute news updates from Google

As of 2007, 15% of physiotherapists were trained internationally? More at CIHI.

SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
Qu’en 2007, 15 % des physiothérapeutes avaient été formés à l’étranger?

Healthcare Quarterly
CIHR Research: SARS: Make No Mistake - There Will Be a Next Time
Alan Bernstein

HealthcarePapers
The Obesity Epidemic and the Rise and Fall of Public Health
David Gratzer

Nursing Leadership
The Influence of Teams, Supervisors and Organizations on Healthcare Practitioners' Abilities to Practise Ethically
Sarah Wall and Wendy Austin

Healthcare Policy
Fat Zombies, Pleistocene Tastes, Autophilia and the "Obesity Epidemic"
Robert G. Evans

Electronic Healthcare
Signing on to Sign-out: Creation of a Web-based Patient Sign-out Application
Sherman Quan

World Health and Population
Gender-Related Factors Influencing HIV Serostatus Disclosure in Patients Receiving HAART in West Africa
C. Ndiaye, C. Boileau, M.V. Zunzunegui, S. Koala, S. Ag Aboubacrine, P. Niamba, V.K. Nguyen and S. Rashed

Today’s featured Podcast:

Kafka, New Orleans, the OARs and the KT Boundary
Robert G. Evans

Reverse the flow of Kafka's fable of the Imperial Message and you have the problem of Knowledge Transfer - the message is not getting through.

Listen here. Read the article here.

Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio, read this . . .
This is a great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using storytelling, compelling lectures or gripping interviews – using simple digital recordings that we distribute on the web. Formatted for iPod listeners, too. For criteria and specifications please contact Lina Lopez at LLopez@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance.

2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - Vancouver
Murray T. Martin and Cliff Nordal
Murray T. Martin is President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON. Cliff Nordal is President and CEO, London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON
Topic: Let's settle the private/public hospital debate: A Conversation reflecting on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Vancouver,UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, Campus Level, HSBC Hall, C680
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP Canada, IBM, McKesson Canada, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Register here

Thursday, February 19, 2009 - Toronto
Glenda Yeates, Graham Scott and Dr. Brian Postl
Glenda Yeates is President and CEO, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Graham Scott is Chair, CIHI. Dr. Brian Postl is CEO, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
Topic: TBA
Location: Toronto, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Ontario Hospital Association

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - Toronto
Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group
Topic: 2009 Review of IM/IT in Healthcare: The Unvarnished Version
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Courtyard Group, HP Canada, McKesson Canada, Microsoft, Ontario Hospital Association

Friday, March 13, 2009 - Vancouver
Ida Goodreau, President & CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health
Topic: TBA
Location: Vancouver, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Sodexo

Monday, April 21, 2009 - Toronto
Mary Ferguson Pare, Vice President, Professional Affairs & Chief Nurse Executive UHN
Topic: TBA
Location: Toronto, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Toronto
Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Topic: TBA
Location: Toronto, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, IBM, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs: Joseph D’Cruz, Professor, Rotman School of Management, Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Dr. Penny Ballem, Tom Closson, and the Honourable George Smitherman.

For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.

Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Murray T. Martin, President and CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences, and Cliff Nordal, President and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health Care, London. Presented Thursday, December 4, 2008
Sponsors: Accenture, ACAHO, HPME, University of Toronto, Healthtech HP Canada, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare, Sodexo.

The small print: Breakfast with the Chiefs: registration requirements:
Do you work at a publicly funded organization? If so, you must hold a current personal subscription for at least one Longwoods journal. This covers attendance for the full season. If you are not a subscriber click here first. If you are a subscriber go to this page for information on upcoming dates: click here.

Registrants from private sector organizations, foundations and associations must be registered members of the Longwoods HealthcareBoard. If you are not sure of your status and want more information please contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com

To see the photo archives click here. To see our video archives click here.

February 8 – 10, 2009: Toronto, ON. Nursing Leadership Conference. For nurses in formal and informal leadership and management roles across all areas of nursing practice, as well as nursing and health administration students, consultants, policy decision-makers, CEOs and others with an interest in the leadership impacts of nursing. For conference and registration information, please click here.

February 9 – 10, 2009: Halifax, NS. Chronic and Complex Care: Prevention, Care Planning and Management. This conference will explore many facets of CDM with input from healthcare policy makers and clinical leaders, including delivery of care, proactive management, and a look at the acute care impacts of chronic illness. For details click here.

February 9 - 11, 2009: Edmonton, AB. Accelerating Primary Care Conference. After attending, delegates will be prepared to revolutionize their practices and policies to improve services and outcomes. New this year, the Alberta Interdisciplinary Primary Health Care Research Network will host a pre conference workshop that provides hands- on learning about implementing improvements in projects. Click here.

February 19-22, 2009: Victoria, BC. Revolutionizing Healthcare with Informatics: From Research to Practice. Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare in Canada and internationally. In order to achieve this potential there will need to be a stronger bridge between research and practice in order to solve complex healthcare problems using technology and to develop best practices based on proven results. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 30, 2008. For details click here.

March 19 - 20, 2009: Edmonton, AB. Leaders in Rehabilitation: the Rehabilitation of Function, The Function of Rehabilitation. Alberta Health Services, in the Edmonton and Calgary areas and the University of Alberta - Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine are pleased to announce the 4th Leaders in Rehabilitation conference. Speakers and special guests include Mr. Alan Lilly, Dr. Mike Landry, Dr. Peter Rosenbaum, Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell and Dr. Arya Sharma. For details click here.

March 30 – 31, 2009: Toronto, ON. Collaborative Primary Healthcare, Transitioning to the Next Generation. Hear the latest from leading practitioners on the benefits of a collaborative approach to primary health care. If applied as envisioned, this approach will greatly improve patient care through its holistic approach and could provide significant inroads to finding solutions to current issues such as wait times and shortages of family physicians. For details click here.

For our complete list of conferences and events go here.

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences.

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.

[We don't go looking for these conferences. Send details to conferences@longwoods.com]

Jill Tettmann to Acting Chief Executive Officer, North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN.
Dr. Simon Davidson to Regional Chief of the partnership of Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (ROMHC) for child and youth mental health programs at both hospitals.
Karen Tataryn to Regional Director, Specialized Psychiatric and Mental Health Services for Children and Youth (CHEO/ROMHC).

[Don’t forget, we don’t make these up. Please send your promotions, appointments, retirements and other transitions to publisher@longwoods.com.] Our transitions come from sources we believe to be reliable. We do not guarantee that they are correct. But we are rarely wrong.

Review all recently reported Transitions here.

Today's Jobs
Clinical Application Support Specialist - St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON
Nursing Unit Administrator, NICU & Level 2 Nursery - Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
Endowed Chair, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing - Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
Chief Financial Officer - New Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON
Chief Nursing Executive - Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON
Vice President Patient Services - Toronto Grace Health Centre, Toronto, ON
CFO - Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB
COO, Corporate Services - Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB
COO, Health Strategies, Research & Design - Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB
Project Manager, Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital, London Health Sciences, London, ON
Coordinator, Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital, London Health Sciences, London, ON
Nursing & Leadership Opportunities with the Provincial Health Services Authority of BC
Career Opportunities at Courtyard Group
Career Opportunities at Strata Health
Career Opportunities at London Health Sciences
Career Opportunities at Alberta Health Services
Career Opportunities at Vancouver Coastal Health
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Career Opportunities at CIHI

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