Longwoods eLetter January 31, 2006

Longwoods eLetter January 31, 2006
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"Starbucks Corp. will spend more on health insurance for its employees this year than on raw materials needed to brew its coffee. It's completely non-sustainable" Howard Schultz Starbucks Chairman as quoted by MSNBC
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HEALTHCARE POLICY (the journal)
Working Within and Beyond the Cochrane Collaboration to Make Systematic Reviews More Useful to Healthcare Managers and Policy Makers
John N. Lavis, Huw T.O. Davies, Russell L. Gruen, Kieran Walshe, Cynthia M. Farquhar
Participants in the Cochrane Collaboration conduct and periodically update systematic reviews that address the question, "What works?" for healthcare interventions. The Cochrane Library makes available quality-appraised systematic reviews that address this question. No coordinated effort has been...
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HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Making Canadian Healthcare Facilities 100% Smoke-Free: A National Trend Emerges
Dan Parle, Shannon Parker and Dan Steeves
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NURSING LEADERSHIP
From the Editor-in-Chief: Something to Celebrate at the Best of Times and the Worst of Times :: Dorothy Pringle
ACEN Scholarship for Nursing Leadership 2006 | Download PDF
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ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE
The Effect of Organizational Factors on the Effectiveness of EMR System Implementation - What Have We Learned? Melanie Studer
Publisher's Page
The HIT Report from KLAS: Successes and Challenges with Full IT Outsourcing
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ANNOUNCING: THE JOURNAL OF WORLD HEALTH AND POPULATION
A forum for researchers and policy makers worldwide to publish original research, reviews and opinions on health- and population-related topics. The journal explores ideas, share best practices and enable excellence in healthcare worldwide through publishing contributions by researchers, policy makers and practitioners from diverse international settings

Become a reviewer for World Health & Population? Click here.

Brazil's Fight Against AIDS and Its Implications for Global Health Governance
J.P. Wogart and G. Calcagnotto
The paper traces Brazil 's efforts to fight AIDS in the last 20 years. The analysis concentrates on the efforts to combat and prevent the deadly infectious disease through ingenious efforts of private citizens, government agencies, national and international NGOs . . .

An Assessment of Parent-Child Communication on Sexuality in Lagos, Nigeria
O. P. Akinwale, B.D. Omotola, O.U. Manafa, A K. Adeneye, E.T. Idowu, M.A. Sulyman and D. B. Adewale
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BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS
VANCOUVER | the inaugural session
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2006.
Focus: BC Policy | BC Politics
Speaker: Dr. Penny Ballem . Deputy Minister,
Ministry of Health Planning & Health Services, British Columbia .
Under the auspices of the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations.
Supported by Accenture, Telus and Baxter .
Hosted by the Provincial Health Services Authority.

Register with LLopez@longwoods.com
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CONFERENCES & EVENTS
February 03. ANEGTA education Session #4. The Chief Nurse Executive
February 08 – 10. People and Progress Conference: ideas and best practices in continuing care.
February 10. OHA Local Health Integration Networks: Enabling Change.
February 14 – 16. Accelerating Primary Care. Note: Capital Health will also be holding a pre-conference workshop with primary care physicians involved in setting up the Primary Care Networks. Go online for details.
February 15 – 17. Seventh National Conference on Quality in Health Care
February 21 – 22. Moving Upstream Together: Partnering for Ontario's Future Health and Well-Being from Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC).
February 28. 8 am to 9 am. Breakfast with the Chiefs. Toronto. Dr. Arthur Porter. Director General and CEO of the. McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Focus: 1.2 billion dollars: a unique opportunity to create a model university health centre. Register with LLopez@longwoods.com
March 21. 8 am to 9 am Breakfast with the Chiefs. Toronto. Annual State of eHealth Address; the unvarnished version. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner Courtyard Group, Chair, Ryerson University and Editor in Chief the journal Electronic Healthcare. Get the details from: Lina Lopez at llopez@longwoods.com.
March 22. 8 am to 9 am Breakfast with the Chiefs. Vancouver. BC Women's and Children's Chan Education Centre. Why CIHI gets the front pages of the papers – every time! More and better information to run you organizations. With Glenda Yeates, CEO of CIHI.

Get the details from: Lina Lopez at llopez@longwoods.com.

June 18 – 20. Healthcare Public Relations Association 2006 will be held in Whistler, BC.
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Seven Conferences: Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) Legislation | Human Resources: Mandatory retirement legislation | Updates to Occupational Exposures | Review of Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) | Public health and emergency management legislation | Long-Term Care | Bill 123, Transparency in Public Matters Act. OHA.com
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More details and more Conferences here

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RESEARCH REVIEWERS - thank you!
Sixty reviewers signed up last week. Thank you for joining an elite list of individuals serving the peer review process.
These reviewers will primarily serve the journal Healthcare Policy covering health services, management and policy research. For more information go here
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LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS
Lynn Nagle to many assignments including Senior Nursing Advisor, Canada Health Infoway
Dr. Sue MacLean and Dr. Jim MacLean to private practice in Brighton, Ontario. More.
Joseph Kleinman to Regent, Atlantic Provinces/Quebec, American College of Healthcare Executives.
Dianne Lister to Vice-President of Advancement and External Relations, Trent University
David Pattenden to the Board of Kingston (ON) General Hospital
Trish Barbato to President and CEO, COTA, Ontario
Robert Carman to Chair, Board of Directors. Bridgepoint Health, Toronto ON
Weeneebayko Hospital and the James Bay General Hospital to one regional health entity governed by First Nations

Review all recently reported Transitions here

[Send you leadership transitions to eletter@longwoods.com]
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Annual report card on cancer care in Canada is out. Go to: canceradvocacy
2. 8th Annual Workshop: Call for Ideas The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation 8th Annual Invitational Workshop - Innovation through Collaboration: Working together for an evidence-informed health system - will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 21-22, 2006. We are currently accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations.
3. The Infoway corporate plan for 2006 is available here: Corporate Business Plan 2005-06: Building on Our Successes
4. Going to HIMSS? CHITTA and HIMSS Ontario invite you to attend the annual Canadian Reception. Monday, February 13, 2006. A whizbang event. More: http://www.chitta.ca/himss06/HIMSS_reception.html
5. The 3rd Annual World Health Care Congress tells us that this is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. Among many illustrious names Richard Alvarez (Infoway) is a listed thought leader. So is Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank (one of the great social entrepreneurs of this century). Great company. We’d like a trip report from Mr. Alvarez.
6. Capital Health, the University of Alberta, and the City of Edmonton are in a formal partnership to transform Edmonton's health-sciences sector to make the health sector, already very strong, a strategic asset for the City and province. A key element in the partnership - the establishment of a health outcomes research centre - will be headed by Dr. Shoo Lee.
7. Private providers offered fresh opportunities in health shake-up By Nicholas Timmins (UK)
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LEADERSHIP JOBSITE
General Manager- St. Albert and Sturgeon Community, Alberta
Business Manager - The Primary Care Network Leduc Beaumont, Albert
Directors, Architecture - Canada Health Infoway
Challenging Opportunities - Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Managers - Burntwood Regional Health Authority
Business Manager - The Edmonton West Primary Care Network (PCN)
Deputy Minister - Nunavut Health and Social Services
Chief of Staff - Pictou County Health Authority
Senior Program Officer, Community Health Solutions Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
Senior Advocacy Officer, Global Libraries Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
Senior Program Officer, Global Health Strategies Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
Program Director, China HIV/AIDS Initiative Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Beijing
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