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Everything you ever wanted to know about Richard Alvarez. No holds barred.
Richard Alvarez, CEO of Canada Health Infoway, will be interviewed by Dr. Penny Ballem in Vancouver (March 16, 2007) and Matthew Anderson in Toronto (May 15, 2007). This is part of the Breakfast with the Chiefs series. The interviewers would like to know: What have you always wanted to ask Mr. Alvarez that we can ask on your behalf. Don’t be shy. Please let us know by sending a note by email to QuestionsForAlvarez@longwoods.com
Mini Medical Rounds – NEW. Transforming the Patient Experience
Longwoods’ Mini Medical Rounds will start in March ‘07. This is part of a program looking at ways and means that healthcare policy makers, researchers and providers can facilitate, support, advance and sustain the escalating role of patients in managing their own healthcare. The first of these rounds will be a conversation between Michael Decter and executives of large employer groups. Mr. Decter, and his co-author Francesca Grosso, will address ways and means to leverage the challenges and opportunities that our complex system provides. For more information please contact the publisher: Anton Hart, at ahart@longwoods.com.
$250,000 up for grabs
From Vancouver, the Dr. Rogers Prize for Excellence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Download PDF
The Calgary difference: A booming population and strained hospitals Read it here
Doctors are the least likely to wash their hands.
". . . when I was a medical resident, nobody taught me to wash my hands, nobody told me it was important. I'd happily round on 30 patients and not wash my hands once because that was the norm." Click here
More news that’s fit for the web
Dept. of Health trying to resolve Restigouche bed shortage
Minister doubles rural ER fees
Shopping for a career? Salary tables might help you decide.
Capital Health, Nova Scotia: Download PDF
(You will have to add in the value of your idyllic ocean view.)
Ontario Hospital Salaries 06: Download PDF
(You will have to discount the nerve damage caused by navigating those 16 lane highways.)
From CAMH
The results are in: Dramatic increases in quit rates for Ontarians with the help of CAMH’s STOP Study
CAMH opens one-of-a-kind forensic unit for women in Ontario
Fact
More than 500 women signed up for their first mammogram in just one week following a promotion between the BC Cancer Agency and the traveling BodyWorlds exhibition.
Special issues on patient safety; change/cpoe; nursing renewal; workplace health – are found here.
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Healthcare Quarterly
How Effective Leaders Achieve Success in Critical Change Initiatives: Building and Sustaining Momentum
Sharon King and Larry Peterson
HealthcarePapers
The Challenge of Effective Workplace Change in the Health Sector
Michael S. Kerr, Cam Mustard
Nursing Leadership
Leadership Strategies to Influence the Use of Clinical Practice Guidelines
Wendy A. Gifford, Barbara Davies, Nancy Edwards, Ian D. Graham
Healthcare Policy
Green Leviathan? Thomas Hobbes, Joel Bakan and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Robert G. Evans
Electronic Healthcare
Signing On to Sign Out, Part 2: Describing the Success of a Web-Based Patient Sign-Out Application and How It Will Serve as a Platform for an Electronic Discharge Summary Program
Sherman Quan and Oliver Tsai
World Health and Population
Profile of Female Sex Workers in a Chinese County: Does It Differ by Where They Came from and Where They Work?
Xiaoyi Fang, Xiaoming Li, Hongmei Yang, Yan Hong, Ran Zhao, Baiqing Dong, Wei Liu, Yuejiao Zhou, Shaoling Liang and Bonita Stanton
Today’s featured Podcast: Human Factors in Action: Getting "Pumped" at a Nursing Usability Laboratory
Edward Etchells, Cynthia Bailey, Ron Biason, Susan DeSousa, Laurie Fowler, Karen Johnson, Catherine Morash and Catherine O'Neill
To listen please click 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 Rebecca Hart at RHart@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance of course.
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Healthcare Quarterly - Check out our Best Practices journal at www.healthcarequarterly.com Only 9$ per article or an annual subscription for $80. Insight: In Conversation with Sister Elizabeth Davis How Effective Leaders Achieve Success in Critical Change Initiatives - Part 1: Building and Sustaining Momentum Ombudsman for a Day: A Job Rotation Opportunity at the University Health Network Be sure your individual subscription is up to date. Sign up online here or contact Barbara Marshall – bmarshall@longwoods.com or 416-864-9667. |
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - Toronto - Dr. Alan Hudson, OC, Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC)
Topic: Wait Times
Location: The Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street (south side) Toronto, ON M5T 3M6, 6th Floor Auditorium
Sponsors: Accenture, ACAHO, Baxter, CGI, Clarity Healthcare Solutions, Dell Canada, GE Healthcare, HP, Johnson & Johnson Medical Products, McKesson, Microsoft, Misys Healthcare Systems and Philips Medical Systems
Register here
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - Toronto - Dr. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group
Topic: 2007 Annual Review of IM/IT in Healthcare
Location: Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Room 106
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Agfa Healthcare, CGI, Dell Canada, HP, McKesson, Microsoft, Misys Healthcare Systems and Philips Medical Systems
Register 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.
February 22, 2007: Vancouver, BC. Voices and Choices: Public Engagement in Health Care Policy. CHSPR’s 2007 conference will bring together researchers, policy makers, and public representatives to examine the public’s role in health reform. For details click here.
February 27, 2007: Toronto, ON. UHN Interdisciplinary Pain Conference: Emerging Practices In Pain Management. For details click here.
March 2, 2007: Toronto, ON. Best Practices Day 2007. The one day symposium features 50 rehab-related best practice, research and innovation presentations selected from across the province; the MOHLTC's Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Framework and keynote and panel addresses from well known authors, clinicians, family members, CEOs, and researchers. For details click here.
March 21 - 23, 2007: Edmonton, AB. The Greying Nation: Transitions of care in later life. Conference topics will include: models of care, service delivery and education, changing needs of an aging society and innovative technologies. Keynote speaker, Stephen Lewis, former Commissioner of the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, who will open the conference. For details click here.
April 25, 2007: Toronto, ON. Ontario Hospital Association Presents: Exploring a New Era in Critical Care Design, Delivery and Evaluation Ontario’s Critical Care Strategy - Year One Results. For details click here.
June 11-12, 2007: Toronto, ON. The National Healthcare Leadership Conference presented by Canadian College of Health Service Executives and the Canadian Healthcare Association. The theme of the conference is Innovation in Health Services: From Local Leadership to National Performance. For details click here.
CHA Learning is pleased to announce that the 2007/2008 Management, Health Information Services and Food Service and Nutrition Management Distance Education programs are now open for registration. For over 50 years, CHA Learning has helped thousands of healthcare and food service professionals further their career aspirations and reach their personal goals. To learn more about the courses offered by CHA Learning, visit http://www.cha.ca/educ/ today and take the first step towards a brighter future.
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]
Dr. Duncan Stewart to CEO and Scientific Director of the OHRI and Vice-President of Research at The Ottawa Hospital.
Dr. Gerald Johnson to the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Anne-Marie Mes-Masson to the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Pierre Tibeault to the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Diane Provencher to the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Yves Brun to the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Alistair Glass to Ontario Genomics Institute Board of Directors
Jay Lefton to Ontario Genomics Institute Board of Directors
Dr. Tim McTiernan to Ontario Genomics Institute Board of Directors
Linda Murphy to Special Advisor, Global Health Research Initiative, International Development Research Centre [www.idrc.ca]
William Albino to CEO, Smart Systems for Health (Ontario). More info
Review all recently reported Transitions here.
Visit our portal of 80 participating healthcare recruitment centres
[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com]
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