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“Canada has fewer physicians per 1,000 population than the United Kingdom, the United States, Finland, Spain Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy. Canada has more nurses per 1,000 population than France, Spain, Finland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Germany. Source: Pages 26 and 27, World In Your Pocket
World in Your Pocket –
OK. Everyone and anyone who studies, explores and debates the rank of Canadian healthcare on the world stage should download this Handbook of International Health Economic Statistics. It includes the most current available data, presented in separate sections on health status, health care costs, health resources, health resource utilization and health system performance. The chart book is intended to provide the user with a reasonably comprehensive overview of how we use health resources, and how well we use them. We have included the most recent data available from a broad array of sources. From IHE – the Calgary-based Institute of Health Economics. Download PDF
Here’s what IHE is/does: provide relevant research that will help policy makers formulate decisions regarding the best means of delivering health care while ensuring optimal use of resources. Click here for a site map linking their organization and their work. Enjoy.
Group Health does it again.
Canada Health Infoway Inc. (Infoway), Group Health Centre (GHC) and the Ontario Pharmacists' Association (OPA) launched a new $3.5-million clinical information system. Pharmacists can access patient drug profiles, current lab test results; clinical intent of prescribed medications and the patient's care plan. Here’s what a local patient, physician and pharmacist have to say about EMRxtra (3 1/2 minute video.) Click here.
And surely one of the most interesting Healthcare Quarterly covers yet leads into a series of papers focused on community-based care for the elderly and chronic disease management. [Cover art by Pierre Bellemare courtesy of “Les Impatients of Montreal – Artists from the Fringe.]
Take a look at our FACTS AT A GLANCE: Canada's Health Care Providers, 2007 – perspectives on: Cost, Size, Demand, Demographics, Training, Internationally Trained Health Providers, Absenteeism and Health of the Workforce, Part-Time Work and Migration.
If healthcare is personal to you, you will understand this note about Dr. Tak Mak, who has already discovered the T-Cell receptor, a key to the human immune system, and is now on a new challenge. Better yet, come and see and hear Dr. Mak in conversation with Dr. Robert Bell, CEO at University Health Network and Dr. Jonathan Irish, Chief of Surgical Oncology at Princess Margaret Hospital. Click here for details and registration for Great Minds in Dialogue – a Breakfast with the Chiefs presentation on January 30, 2008.
Public Reporting on the Quality of Healthcare: Emerging Evidence on Promising Practices for Effective Reporting Download PDF
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2008 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs - Great minds in Dialogue
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 – Toronto
Dr. Robert Bell, President and Chief Executive Officer, University Health Network,
Dr. Jonathan Irish, Chief, Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto and
Dr. Tak Mak, Director of Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research and Senior Scientist, Division of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology and Advanced Medical Discovery Institute/Ontario Cancer Institute.
Topic: A Conversation about the Future of Canadian Healthcare
Location: Health Sciences Building, U of T, 155 College Street, 6th Floor, Auditorium
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario, HP, Ontario Hospital Association
Register here
Thursday, February 21, 2008 – Toronto
Dr. Ben Chan, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Health Quality Council and Michael Decter, Chair of Wait Time Data Certification Council for Ontario
Location: Health Sciences Building, U of T, 155 College Street, 6th Floor, Auditorium
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP, OHA
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 – Toronto
Dr. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner of Courtyard Group and Editor-in-Chief for Electronic Healthcare.
Location: Health Sciences Building, U of T, 155 College Street, 6th Floor, Auditorium
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP, OHA
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Toronto
Dr. Alan Hudson, Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Location: Health Sciences Building, U of T, 155 College Street, 6th Floor, Auditorium
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP, OHA
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations Click Here
See our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs video: What is the research telling us about the quality of work-life for nurses and its implications for their retention and recruitment? Tom Closson: healthcare management consultant & Past President and Chief Executive Officer of University Health Network (UHN) and Linda O'Brien-Pallas: Professor, University of Toronto, CHSRF/CIHR National Chair, Nursing Health Human Resources. To view presentation click here.
The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts. If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.
To see the photo archives click here. To see our video archives click here.
January 23, 2008: Toronto, ON: Dr. Joshua Tepper will be speaking at this ELF event. ELF is a forum to help developing eHealth professionals learn from experts in the field, share information, establish a community and collectively develop ideas on how eHealth can enable transformation in healthcare. Membership to ELF is free. Click here to RSVP now!
January 23, 2008: Newmarket, ON. QHN Improvement Fundamentals Workshop - The Model for Rapid Cycle Improvement. Seats still available! The Quality Healthcare Network (QHN) has designed this one day workshop to build capacity for quality improvement in organizations. This introductory level workshop will help you plan and implement improvement strategies using the Model for Improvement - A model that helps teams focus their improvement efforts and to use small tests of change to accelerate their work. To download PDF brochure and registration form click here.
January 25-26, 2008: Toronto, ON. Model World Health Organization Conference 2008. Nursing Students of Ontario (NSO, an official RNAO Interest Group) will host its first conference at Toronto’s Ryerson University. Attendees will participate in a simulation of a Model World Health Organization, representing 193-countries and debating foreign health policies regarding terrorism and corresponding health services: the two topic areas of debate include policies regarding child soldiers, and preparing for bioterrorism as a planned epidemic. For more information, click here or contact Jennifer Yoon.
January 30 - February 1, 2008: Chapel Hill, NC. Health Crises and Disparities: Working Together on Solutions. Peking University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will bring together scholars, policymakers and representatives of the private sector to consider cutting-edge issues relating to health reform in China and the U.S. Please see our Schedule for complete details on topics and themes. For details click here.
February 5-6, 2008. Red Deer, AB. David Thompson Health Region Hospital Emergency Care and Patient Flow Forum: "Today's Solutions that Work". This National Conference will bring together leaders and decision-makers in emergency health services (physicians, nursing, paramedics), quality improvement, health administration, government, and academia to explore and share "Today's Solutions That Work" in reducing wait time challenges facing our emergency departments today. You will acquire tools for improving input, throughput, and output in our health care system today and into the future. Click here for details.
February 10 - 12, Banff, AB - Innovation from cell to society 3. At its third annual research conference, AllerGen, the Allergy, Genes and Environment Network, offers an opportunity to look at results from AllerGen’s research program, with a special emphasis on the link between allergic disease and the environment. The conference features engaging speakers and scientific presentations, panel discussions, keynote addresses, trainee presentations and networking opportunities. For details, click here.
February 12-14, 2008: Edmonton, AB. Accelerating Primary Care 2008. Hosted by the University of Alberta and Capital Health to explore leading practice and innovation to accelerate primary care. For details click here.
March 3-4, 2008: Mississauga, ON. 2nd Annual Healthcare Safety Forum presented by the Canadian Standards Association and Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare’s Toronto Airport Hilton. For details click here.
March 6-7, 2008. Toronto, ON. “Forging Ahead…Evidence to Innovation” – Saint Elizabeth Health Care Conference 2008. The objective of this event is to celebrate the centennial year of Saint Elizabeth Health Care and to promote the use of research, evidence and innovation at the individual, organizational and systems levels of health care. This two day conference will examine three themes: 1) how technology and consumer empowerment are leading to innovations in the delivery of healthcare (on an individual level), 2) fostering an organizational culture that supports the use of research evidence and innovation (at the organizational level), and 3) exploring how research, evidence and innovation are being used to inform policy and the future of health care (at a systems level). Registration is now open for the conference. For details click here
April 24-26,2008: Ottawa, ON. CSPE Annual Meeting of Physician Executives. Download PDF
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Dr. Roderick McInnes, the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Genetics, to the Order of Ontario
Dr. Richard Massé to founding board member for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Dr. Michael D. Christian to founding board member for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Judith Tompkin to founding board member for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Dr. Vivek Goel to founding board member for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Dr. Terrance Sullivan to founding board member for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Dr. Liana Nolan to founding board member for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Diane Roach to Director of Human Resources, The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada
Lois Cormack to President, Specialty Care Inc
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