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Longwoods eLetter April 21, 2009
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“The average Ontarian waits nearly twice as long for emergency care as a Sault Ste. Marie resident.” One finding from the new Ontario Hospital Association website: myhospitalcare.ca.
Pay for Performance: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place? Steven Lewis
It sounds like such a good idea: don’t pay people to show up and scurry about, pay them for proven performance. It’s the new Big Thing in healthcare financing. . . . More.
ESSAY #2
Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Innovation – and Hot Air. Neil Seeman
Health policy wonks – especially those interested in the transformative power of health information technology (HIT) – are fixated on whether innovation comes from the “bottom up” (the patient/consumer) or the “top down” (government or the hospital). . . More.
According to their web site The University Health Network (UHN) has committed to: (1) High quality and safe care to our patients; (2) no involuntary layoffs; and (3) a balanced budget. And new subscriptions went out to two readers who correctly identified the network. They join 214,000 website visitors who read 679,619 documents last month. To guarantee delivery you can subscribe here.
The recession will look mild when compared to the coming revolution in health. Profound changes in genomics and other life sciences will transform business, technology, politics and society. Off the shelf ears? To see the video look for more.
Here are the high performing hospitals in Ontario as told by OHA. More.
When patients are lining up to get out of the hospital we call it Alternate Level of Care. Here’s what that really means: the official definition (PDF). (You will need to know this!)
We welcome our latest institutional subscriber in Tashkent, Toshkent Shahri (Uzbekistan). More here.
2009 Performance Evaluation of the Canada Health Infoway Public Health Surveillance Program. Final Report. March 2009. More (PDF).
Getting It Right. From the Health Council: Case Studies of Effective Management of Chronic Disease Using Primary Health Care Teams. Download PDF.
The deadline for this year's Hygeia and Hollobon Awards is April 24. Full details are on the website under Awards.
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Sara A. Kreindler
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Matthew W. Morgan, Nicholas E. Zamora, Michael F. Hindmarsh
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Effective Collaboration: The Key to Better Healthcare
Kelly Merkeley Keith, Debbie Fraser Askin
Healthcare Policy
Connected Care: How a Health Science Centre Is Using Evidence to Improve Patient Transitions from Primary to Secondary Care
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Electronic Healthcare
Web 2.0 and Chronic Illness: New Horizons, New Opportunities
Neil Seeman
World Health and Population
Individual- and Contextual-Level Determinants of Social Inequities in Under-Five Mortality in Nigeria: Differentials by Religious Affiliation of the Mother
Diddy Antai and Justina Antai
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2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs
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 Five 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 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 13, 2009: Toronto, ON. Clinical performance accountability through data integration and analytics. What if your analysts spent more time analyzing data than preparing it? SAS, the leader in Business Analytics, invites you to see a demonstration and hear from a customer about the benefits of Data Integration Services for Health (DISH) – a powerful data management solution for healthcare organizations. For registration and program details 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 27, 2009: Toronto, ON. "Think Big, Act Small, Deliver Quickly, and Leverage like (Heck). Opportunities for health system transformation in the age of the internet”. HPME Society of Graduates Education Day. Join us for a thought provoking workshop featuring innovative keynote speaker, Dr. Alex R. Jadad. To registerr, and for more information click here.
May 31-June 2, 2009: Prince George, BC. Collective Commitment to Action, the Rural Health Workforce Symposium. Join colleagues from education, health and government in exploring how education and health systems can focus on enhancing rural health care and be a part of identifying actions to improve health care delivery to residents of rural communities. Still a few places left: 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.
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Joy Richards to Chief Nursing Officer, The Scarborough Hospital
Graham Scott to provincially appointed supervisor for Quinte (ON) Health Care
Margaret Beatty to Vice President Research, Professional Education and Government Affairs at Canadian Diabetes Association
John McGarry to Chief Operating Officer at Kingston General Hospital (ON)
Rik Ganderton, President and CEO of Rouge Valley Health System (ON), will stay on until the Board finds his replacement.
Lynn Guerriero to Director, Wait Time Information Program, Cancer Care Ontario.
Dr. Peter Nord to WTIP Physician Champion for ALC (ie: Alternate Level of Care)
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