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Longwoods eLetter April 14, 2009
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"This research demonstrates how fortunate we are in Canada to live in such a caring society. Looking to the future, we need to clearly define the role government should play in supporting families and their friends as they care for their loved ones." Tom Closson, President of the Ontario Hospital Association.
“Valuable and fascinating research with real implications for home care and broader social policy.” Michael Decter, Chair of Saint Elizabeth Health Care.
Both quotes refer to the lead paper in the current issue of Healthcare Quarterly: The researchers/authors find that the contribution made by unpaid caregivers in 2009 is estimated at $25 billion dollars. More.
An Evaluation of Patient Safety Leadership Walkarounds by Rosanne Zimmerman, Ivan Ip, Charlotte Daniels, Teresa Smith and Jill Shaver in the journal Patient Safety Papers, a CPSI journal. More.
How much is a hospital CEO worth? Here is a short list of comparisons using (2008) compensation of the most senior executive in each of the following public service organizations operating in London, Ontario [population of ~352,000]. As reported in the London Free Press.
A few selected CEO Salaries + Benefits from British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario for the year ended March 31, 2008. More (PDF).
All publicly paid Ontarians from hospitals and public health earning + $100,000. More (PDF).
British Columbia’s budget including health. More (PDF).
Ontario’s new budget for hospitals and health. A brief courtesy of the Ontario Hospital Association. More.
Alberta’s budget for Health and Wellness. More (PDF).
It’s not over: Flu season, that is. Three area long-term care facilities and two daycares within Grey-Bruce (ON) are currently in "outbreak" conditions, for either respiratory or gastrointestinal ailments.
Breakfast with the Chiefs – Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in Toronto: Mary Ferguson-Paré. Investment as a Deficit Reduction Strategy. Register here.
“Everyone's Covered” presents a view of nationalized healthcare - Tuesday, April 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET. "Dan Rather Reports" takes a look into the state of universal healthcare in Canada, weighing both the pros and cons of the system that has been in place in that country since 1984. What, if anything, could the U.S. learn - good and bad - from the healthcare system north of their border as they struggle to find a way to cover all of their citizens? Click here for more.
Bringing Financial Sustainability to Healthcare Organizations. White Paper by Dipak Pandya. More.
Did you know? Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a 3D planning technique that modulates the intensity of the radiation beams such that a high dose can be delivered to the tumor while significantly sparing the surrounding normal tissues. Philips Healthcare. More.
New book from Donner & Wheeler: Taking Control of Your Career: A Handbook for Health Professionals (order information only.)
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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?
Près de la moitié des infirmières dispensant des soins directs ont été blessées par un objet contaminé durant leur carrière.
Healthcare Quarterly
New issue covering: Chronic Disease – what works, what doesn’t, what next; Ethics; Joint Health; Physician Leaders & Performance Measurement; Change Management in the ED; The WestJet Health Care System. . . and more.
HealthcarePapers
Value(s) for Money? Assessing Romanow and Kirby
Nuala Kenny
Nursing Leadership
Value for Money: The Nursing Health Services Research - McMaster Unit
Healthcare Policy
Interview with Penny Ballem
Steven Lewis
Electronic Healthcare
Signing on to Sign-out: Creation of a Web-based Patient Sign-out Application
Sherman Quan
World Health and Population
Pregnancy Intention and Antenatal Care Use in Two Rural North Indian States
Lindsey Barrick and Michael A Koenig
Today’s featured Podcast:
Turning the Tide on Chronic Disease: How a Province Is Using Evidence to Build Quality Improvement Capacity. Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Running time: 6.20 minutes
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.
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Discussion and Debate Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research Commentary: Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research: If the Laws Are Not the Problem, Then What Is? Commentary: Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research |
2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Toronto
Mary Ferguson-Paré, 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: Find out what Ontario’s lead health system strategist is thinking about.
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 Most Important Ideas to Improve Ontario Healthcare.
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips, SAS
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, 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
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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, 2009: Vancouver, BC. All Hands on the Elephant Please! – Seeing the big picture using healthcare analytics. SAS, the leader in Business Analytics, invites you to attend a complimentary executive seminar. Come share views and experiences with leading experts on healthcare analytics from British Columbia and across Canada; explore the issues and hear about real success stories. Keynote speakers: Kimberlyn McGrail, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health Faculty, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Andre Kushniruk, PhD, Director, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria; Mark Morreale, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and eHealth Department, McMaster University. For registration and program details click here.
April 23-24, 2009: Vancouver, BC. Operations Research and Lean Health Care: Implementation Successes and Challenges. This conference is designed to continue the advances being made with applications of Operations Research in health care delivery. For more information and to register click here.
April 27-28, 2009: Toronto, ON. 7th Annual Health Innovation and Policy Summit, Driving Healthcare Forward in Leaner Times. Focusing on challenges and opportunities presented to healthcare decision makers in tougher economic times with mounting pressures on healthcare budgets. For information click here.
April 27, 2009: Toronto, ON. HIROC Annual General Meeting and Seventh Annual Risk Management Conference. HIROC subscribers' 22nd Annual General Meeting. Annual reports of the Chair of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer will be received, auditors appointed, and Directors elected. Immediately following the AGM, HIROC will host its Seventh Annual Risk Management Conference. For more information click here.
May 7-10, 2009: Kananaskis, AB. 1st National Obesity Summit. Canada's first all-obesity meeting is set to go in picturesque Kananaskis country. Working in health care delivery, research, industry or the policy and not-for-profit sectors? this conference designed to highlight the latest knowledge on the causes, prevention and treatments of obesity - and how it impacts what you do on a day-to-day basis. 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.
May 25–26, 2009: Vancouver, BC. Chronic and Complex Care - Prevention, Care Planning and Management. This two day Insight conference will explore many facets of CDM with input from healthcare policy makers and clinical leaders, including delivery of care, proactive management, and a look at the acute care impacts of chronic illness. Register by March 13 and Save! For more information click here.
May 31-June 2, 2009: Prince George, BC. Collective Commitment to Action, the Rural Health
Workforce Symposium. The early-bird deadline has been extended to April 7th. Register now to to secure your spot. Spaces are limited and filling up fast. To register, and for more information click here.
May 31–June 3, 2009: Québec City, QC. e-Health 2009: Leadership in Action. Canada’s only National Health informatics conference is jointly hosted by CIHI and COACH. This annual conference offers proactive top-quality learning and an opportunity to network with organizations and people that value quality health information as well as effective integrated system solutions. For more information click here.
June 1, 2009: Toronto, ON. Safeguarding your Organization against Litigation. This conference is geared towards assisting Senior Directors, Risk Managers, Patient Safety Specialists, Senior Administrators, Legal Counsel, Human Resources Professionals, and others in understanding, identifying and managing risk in healthcare today. For more information click here.
June 1-2, 2009: St. John’s, NL. National Healthcare Leadership Conference. Accountability in Health System Leadership: The Balancing Act. This is the largest national gathering of health system leaders in Canada sponsored by the CCHSE and the CHA. Deadline for the early bird registration fee is April 17, 2009. For program details click here.
June 3–5, 2009: Toronto, ON. Knowledge and Inspiration, Les Connaissances et l’Inspiration 2009. Join Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres and their Health Partners for an inspiring conference featuring thought provoking presentations by innovative speakers! For more information click here.
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]
Eric Vandewall to President and CEO, Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Burlington, ON
Sherri L. McCullough to the Board, Ontario Hospital Association is Board Chair, Hotel Dieu, Kingston, ON
Carol Clemenhagen resigned from the Board of the Ontario Hospital Association
Carol Clemenhagen to Global Health Research Initiative, a partnership of IDRC and four Government of Canada agencies
Susanne Bjerno to Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer, Guelph General Hospital (ON)
Sue Matthews to Niagara Health System (ON) as Vice President Patient Services and Chief Nursing Executive
Peter Szota to Executive Director, Grand River Community Health Centre (ON)
Dr. Philip Baker to Dean of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
Dr. Tom Marrie to Dean of Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Iain D. Young to Vice-Dean Academic, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston
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