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Longwoods eLetter March 17, 2009

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"The cost of a mobile (emergency) visit is 21 per cent less expensive than the cost of sending that resident into the emergency department and doing sort of a typical over-75-years-old emergency-department-visit assessment, so there's significant savings to the health-care system." Mary Jane McNally, Director of Nursing at Toronto Western Hospital. More.

What does Twitter reveal about the mental health of Canadians? Neil Seeman and Carlos Rizo explain. (Editor’s note: This is bleeding edge stuff.) Click here.

Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership

• From the Editor-in-Chief: Leadership for the Information Age: The Time for Action is Now - Dorothy Pringle and Lynn Nagle
• Letters to the Editor [re: Benefits and Limitations of an Applied Degree in Undergraduate Nursing Education]
• Awards and Appointments

Canadian Medical Association is formulating the beginnings of a solution, or "transformation," of Canada’s healthcare system – according to president Dr. Robert Ouellet. CMA wants a system of universal health care, but one that doesn't come with agonizing waits and too few hospital beds. (Source: Ottawa Citizen 07 Mar 2009)

Breakfast with the Chiefs | Vancouver | Steven Lewis putting Ida Goodreau’s feet to the fire
The Longwoods HealthcareBoard is pleased to invite you to Breakfast with the Chiefs - Great Minds in Dialogue with Ida Goodreau, CEO, LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services, and Steven Lewis, Health Policy and Research Consultant. Thursday, April 30, 2009. 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. (Join us for breakfast at 7:30 a.m.) UBC Robson Square, Theatre, 800 Robson Square, Vancouver, BC
Topic: Tough questions. Tough issues. Bright minds. Open forum. Click here to register.
Produced with the support of: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations and CGI.

Physician Preferences and Supply Chain Standardization
While many hospitals and integrated delivery network systems employ value analysis strategies to determine and agree upon equivalencies for physician preference items (PPIs), success in standardization, controlling costs, and overall management of PPIs (PPIM) remains very difficult. Four case studies tell the story.

Health Recruitment Partnership
New St. Thomas (ON) health centre at First Avenue and Elm Street opened after being spearheaded by Dr. Kellie Scott through the Health Recruitment Partnership - a joint doctor recruitment project between the St. Thomas-Elgin Home Builders Association, St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, the City of St. Thomas and County of Elgin. The program offers an interest free forgivable loan to a local doctor to establish a clinic and recruit family physicians.

MediSolution, a Canadian healthcare business, goes private. More here. In its 2008 annual report MediSolution noted that it will become a focused Resource Management/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) company with a specialty product niche in blood bank with estimated revenues $21 million.

2009 Sponsorship Opportunities
OHA Executive Golf Tournament 2009. Thursday, July 16, 2009 | St. Thomas Golf & Country Club | Sponsorship Registration Form. (PDF)

Michael Guerriere 2009 Review of IM/IT in Healthcare: The Unvarnished Version (PDF of slides). See the video here.

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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.

SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
56 % des médecins de famille de moins de 40 ans sont des femmes.

Healthcare Quarterly
Emotional Intelligence - How Well Do We Know Ourselves and How We Relate to Others?
Moriah Shamian-Ellen and Peggy Leatt

HealthcarePapers
Is the Graduate Education Model Inappropriate for Leadership Development?
Joseph R. D'Cruz

Nursing Leadership
The Effects of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Behaviour on Emergency Staff Nurses' Workplace Empowerment and Organizational Commitment
Carol Young-Ritchie, Heather K. Spence Laschinger and Carol Wong

Healthcare Policy
Family Physicians' Satisfaction with Current Practice: What Is the Role of Their Interactions with Specialists?
Amardeep Thind, Tom Freeman, Cathy Thorpe, Andrea Burt and Moira Stewart

Electronic Healthcare
The Knowledge Audit as a Launch Pad for Knowledge Management in Hospitals: A Case Report from Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre
Taodhg Burns, Caroline Lonsdale and Shahida Rashid

World Health and Population
Commentary: The Health of Rural to Urban Migrants in China
Wen Chen

Today’s featured Podcast:

Changing Behaviours to Improve Documentation and Optimize Hospital Revenue
TA deficit situation prompted Hôtel Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor, Ontario to examine aspects of the funding process.

Running time: 15.06 minutes

Listen here.
Read it 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

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Toronto
Mary Ferguson-Pare, Vice President, Professional Affairs & Chief Nurse Executive, UHN
Topic: Investment as a Deficit Reduction Strategy - Getting to No Vacancies in a Global Nursing Shortage
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HPME, University of Toronto, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
Register here.

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - Vancouver
Ida Goodreau and Steven Lewis, Ida Goodreau, CEO, LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services, Steven Lewis, Health Policy and Research Consultant, Access Consulting
Topic: Tough questions. Tough issues. Bright minds. Open forum. Location: UBC Robson Square, Theatre, 800 Robson Square, Vancouver, BC
Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations, CGI
Register here.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Toronto
Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Topic: TBA
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, IBM, HPME, University of Toronto, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Register here.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - Toronto
Tom Closson, President and CEO, Ontario Hospital Association
Topic: The five Most Important Issues Facing Healthcare over the Next 12 Months. And, what to do about them.
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association

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

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

Breakfast with the Chiefs video from Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - Toronto - Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group.
Topic: 2009 Review of IM/IT in Healthcare: The Unvarnished Version (PDF)
Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations, CGI, Courtyard Group, HP Canada, McKesson Canada, Microsoft, Ontario Hospital Association, HPME, University of Toronto

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.

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

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April 21, 2009: Toronto, ON. One Patient, One Record. A One Day Symposium to promote Patient eHealth. Offering a dialogue opportunity between two distinct stakeholders – healthcare personnel and patients, this “By Invitation Only” event will bring together key healthcare decision makers and service delivery personnel in direct communication with highly motivated and informed patients. For more information click here.

April 23-25, 2009: Vancouver, BC. Pathways to Success: Improving Outcomes through Physician Engagement. Renew your inspiration at the 11th Annual Canadian Society of Physician Executives conference. Network with Canadian physician leaders to explore solutions to common challenges at The Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver. Contact: carol.rochefort@cma.ca or click here.

April 28-30, 2009: Toronto, ON. Canada’s Forum on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. This forum will provide multiple learning streams with a national and international flavour. The streams for the forum will fall under the following areas Applied Learning, Infection Prevention and Control, Medication Safety, Patients and Family Involvement; Patient Safety in Physician Practice, and Technology and Patient Safety. For more information and to register for this exciting conference, click here.

April 30-May 1, 2009: Toronto, ON. Age Friendly Communities: Supporting Aging at Home and Across the Continuum of Care. The Conference examines progress on the Aging at Home Strategies and local initiatives that advance age friendly communities. Keynote speaker, Dr. Robert Butler reports on changes in longevity and some 50 papers and workshops provide evidence-based information and best practices. Registration and program details at www.gerontario.org under the Conference tab.

May 11-14, 2009: Calgary, AB. The annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) Conference brings together over 400 of Canada’s leading researchers, decision makers, managers and trainees to exchange ideas and share findings from the most recent studies in health services and policy research. For more information or to register click here.

May 12-14, 2009: Toronto, ON. Global Harmonization Task Force 12th Conference. A must attend for regulatory professionals and stakeholders affected by medtech regulations, this is the venue for sharing the latest regulatory issues, developments and solutions. For more information, visit www.ghtf.org or call 1.866.58.MEDEC or 415.620.1915 x236. Online registration is now open: click here.