Longwoods eLetter February 14, 2006

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Longwoods eLetter February 14, 2006

"Diane Beattie, chief information officer of London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and St. Joseph’s Health Care London (SJHC), said one of the hardest parts of an IT project is making changes to the way things are done. The biggest challenge is taking the time to do the transformation agenda properly,” said Beattie, quoting a catch phrase the hospital uses called, “Success equals process change plus enabling technology. The hard part is the process change -- making sure that the clinicians are involved in it. If it looks like and feels like an IT project, it will go in the tank." IT Business
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Healthcare Quarterly

Opinions

Quarterly Change

Photo Feature: OHA HealthAchieve2005

CIHR Research: Supporting Women's Research Careers: Strategies for Success
Miriam Stewart

ICES Report: Injuries in Ontario
Alison K. Macpherson, Geta Cernat and Michael J. Schull

CIHI Survey: Intensive Care in Canada
Kira Leeb, Aleksandra Jokovic, Michaela Sandhu, Greg Zinck
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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

Letters to the Editor

Nursing News

A Sabbatical Journey of Discovery: The Liberation of Nursing
Mary Ferguson-Paré

Annual Report: September 2004 to November 2005
Mary Ellen Jeans

The Promise of the Health Sciences in the 21st Century
Alan Bernstein

Registered Nurse and Registered Practical Nurse Evaluations of Their Hospital Practice Environments and Their Responses to These Environments
Ann E. Tourangeau, Anne L. Coghlan, Judith Shamian, Sarah Evans

Illuminating the Clinical Nurse Specialist Role of Advanced Practice Nursing: A Qualitative Study
Connie Canam

Riding the Third Rail: The Story of Ontario's Health Services Restructuring Commission, 1996-2000
Gail J. Donner

Leadership Careers
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READERSHIP SURVEY

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Healthcare POLICY

Researchers' Role in Policy Decision-Making: Purveyors of Evidence, Purveyors of Ideas?
Brian Hutchison

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

Good Stuff from the Rotman Magazine
The State of Canadian Healthcare (PDF only) Download PDF
President's Corner: Interview with Kevin Lobo (PDF only) Download PDF
Culture Clash: The Professional Manager Dichotomy (PDF only) Download PDF
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BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS

Dr. PENNY BALLEM
VANCOUVER | the inaugural session
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2006.
Focus: BC Policy | BC Politics – one day after the budget.
Speaker: Dr. Penny Ballem. Deputy Minister of Health
Under the auspices of the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations.
Supported by Accenture, Telus, Cerner, 3M and Baxter.
Hosted by the Provincial Health Services Authority.

Register with LLopez@longwoods.com

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CONFERENCES & EVENTS

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 22. 8 am to 9 am. Breakfast with the Chiefs Vancouver | the inaugural session With Dr. Penny Ballem, Deputy Minister of Health. Focus: BC Policy | BC Politics (one day after the budget). Under the auspices of the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations | Supported by Accenture, Telus, Cerner, 3M and Baxter | Hosted by the Provincial Health Services Authority. Register with LLopez@longwoods.com

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: A model university health centre within the Quebec system of healthcare. 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.

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. www.OHA.com/conferences

Registered Nurses Association Of Ontario | all conferences click here.
February 23, 2006 Regional Workshop, Toronto. Fight or Flight . . . Professional Solutions to Conflict in the Workplace

March 3, 2006. Conference, Toronto. Ontario Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Annual Conference

MORE CONFERENCES HERE HERE
[send your conference details to eletter@longwoods.com]
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AWARDS

Healthcare Communicators: How to submit for the Hygeia Awards: Go here now!
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LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS

Lloyd Koch to retirement
Mike LeMay to founding Board Members for the Local Heath Integrated Network Champlain
Alistair M. Fraser to National President and Chief Executive Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
Carolyn Moore to President and Chief Executive Officer Physician Credentials Registry of Canada
Ken Spears to Managing Director of Boston Scientific
Graham Jobson to Solvay Pharma as President and CEO

Review all recently reported Transitions here

[Send you leadership transitions to eletter@longwoods.com]
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Do you own a Blackberry? RIM works “around” the patents: details here

Longwoods wants to know how you use the Blackberry in the administration of healthcare. Send your ideas and stories to publisher@longwoods.com: The two best submissions will mean a brand new Blackberry for the individual making the subsmission.

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.

Call for Papers: Due by March 31, 2006. The fifth international, inter-disciplinary Evidence-Based Policies & Indicator Systems Conference to be held in London, UK on the 11th - 13th July 2006. Theme:” What can social science evidence do for policy making and public services?" Please see www.cemcentre.org/eb2006. Recommended by CHSRF.

The 3rd Annual World Health Care Congress (April 17 – 19, 2006) 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 – in good company with Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank (one of the great social entrepreneurs of this century). We’d like a trip report from you Mr. Alvarez. Maybe you could invite Mr. Yunus to speak to Canadians. We’ll produce it for you. What would he do with a billion dollars? How does he keep electronic records? Does he have wait lists? How does he measure success?

The OHAdvocate is designed to provide you with facts and analysis about how new programs, policies and legislation will impact Ontario’s hospitals; keep you abreast of the latest news from Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill and explain why it matters. It’s available here: OHAdvocate (You’ll have to ‘allow’ popups to make it available.)

Canadian Healthcare Excellence in Quality Award (CHEQA)
New Award with good beginnings (including a $15,000 prize)

Canadians need quality - not just quicker - health care, Health Council of Canada says in second annual report

Connecting the Dots: the Health Council’s 2006 videos
Change doesn’t come easily, especially in a system as complex as health care. Yet the Health Council continues to find communities where health care professionals are working together in new ways to provide better quality care. Click here for the full story...

In Canada federal spending on science and technology is expected to reach $9.1 billion in 2005/06. Up .3 billion form 2003/2004
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LEADERSHIP JOBSITE
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