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Longwoods eLetter May 12, 2009

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"Like chemistry before it, biology is moving from a world of alchemy and ignorance to becoming a predictable, repeatable science." Menno Prins of Philips in Medicine Goes Digital. Economist.com.

Fewer than 20% of US surgeons in America use health information technology (HIT) but nearly 60% of Indian hospitals take advantage of HIT. India on My Mind – Neil Seeman writes.

Breakfast with the Chiefs: Live webcast. Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. EDT
Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Ontario.
Topic: Find Out What Ontario’s Lead Health System Strategist is Thinking About… The Day We Stop Caring.
NEW: A link to the live webcast will be available at 7:45 am on this page.
Recommended Reading: eReading List (PDF)

Lessons from other Industries for Transforming Healthcare (PDF). Slide deck from a presentation by Accenture’s William Falk.

Microsoft’s HealthVault is being piloted by New York Presbyterian Hospital with lots of access for patients. New Brunswick - is this an idea for you? Call Dr. Craig Smith at the Presbyterian Hospital and learn. More on this here. And more in this special report in Economist.com.

Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 includes nine from the health/care sector. They are:

1. Michael Taylor from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Neurosurgeon, Principal Investigator, Brain Tumour Research Centre; and Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
2. Sam Wiseman, Surgical oncologist, endocrine surgeon, head and neck surgeon and general surgeon, Department of surgery, St. Paul's Hospital, Providence Health Care and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
3. Cameron Piron, President and co-founder, Sentinelle Medical Inc., Toronto
4. Julie Lessard, Principal Investigator, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Montreal
5. Shana Kelley, Professor & Director, Division of Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto
6. Shaun Francis, Chairman and chief executive officer, Medcan Health Management Inc., Toronto
7. Andrew Demchuk, Director, Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences/Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary/Alberta Health Services, Calgary
8. Sam Daniel, Surgeon and Director, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery The Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal
9. Fiona Costello, Assistant professor of neurology and ophthalmology, University of Calgary, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary

AWARD WINNERS
The 2009 Killam Prizes honour eminent Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research. They are:
Dr. Philippe Gros, Dr. Wagdi G. Habashi, and Dr. François Ricard of McGill University
Dr. John P. Smol of Queen’s University
Professor Ernest J. Weinrib of University of Toronto

NOTABLE NEWS
TELUS is granted the exclusive license to host and operate the HealthVault platform for the development of a consumer-focused e-health service in Canada. The service will be called TELUS Health Space, powered by Microsoft HealthVault.

Standardized Provincial Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Definition
On July 1st, 2009, all hospitals across Ontario will begin using a standardized Provincial Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Definition to designate patients as ALC. For more information or for any questions regarding this initiative, please email ALCdefinition@cancercare.on.ca. A variety of activities have been organized to support the adoption of the definition, the next one: May 20th, 2009 - Interactive Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) videoconference and live webcast. If you wish to participate in the live webcast event, please register online through OHA - There is no cost to participate in this event.

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Julie Kentner from Manitoba Health and Healthy Living reminds us that the Manitoba plan for pandemic planning for schools, businesses and local governments, is available here (PDF).

Indicators: clues as to what is happening in the hospital. The Ottawa Hospital Reports. Full report here (PDF).

PANDEMIC UPDATE
H1N1 FLU REPORTS UPDATE as of noon, May 11, 2009
H1N1 flu in the US: 2600 [last week: 279] laboratory confirmed cases. Three deaths. [Last week: one] (Source: CDC).
H1N1 flu in Canada: 330 [last week: 140] laboratory confirmed cases. One death. [Last week: one] (Source: PHAC).
H1N1 flu in Mexico: 2059 [last week: 506] confirmed human cases. 56 deaths. [last week 19] (Source: WHO)
H1N1 flu across the world: 5251 [last week: 898] confirmed cases with 61 deaths. [last week 20] (Source: WHO map) – includes above data and more.
INFLUENZA: RESOURCES
World Health Organization. MORE.
Public Health Agency of Canada: Human Swine Influenza – Latest updates. MORE + their site Fight Flu. MORE.

TOP TEN. Best read editorial content from Longwoods.com for April 2009:

1. Pay for Performance: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place?
2. Ethics? But It's Only Quality Improvement!
3. My Evening with the Future
4. (Selected) CEO Salaries + Benefits for the year ended March 31, 2008
5. Who Cares and How Much? The imputed economic contribution to the Canadian healthcare system of middle-aged and older unpaid caregivers providing care to the elderly
6. Access without Appropriateness: Chicken Little in Charge?
7. An Inconvenient Truth: A Sustainable Healthcare System Requires Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Transformation
8. Lifting the Burden of Chronic Disease: What Has Worked? What Hasn't? What's Next?
9. Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Innovation – and Hot Air
10. An Evaluation of Patient Safety Leadership Walkarounds

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SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
Le taux de naissances prématurées est de 57% pour les naissances multiples, comparativement à 7% pour les naissances uniques.

Healthcare Quarterly
The Application of Change Management Principles to Facilitate the Introduction of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants into Six Ontario Emergency Departments
James Ducharme, Jenny Buckley, Robert Alder and Cindy Pelletier

HealthcarePapers
Safety Is Not Negotiable: The Importance of Occupational Health and Safety to Pandemic Planning
Linda Silas, Nancy Johnson, Kate Rexe

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
To Boldly Go: A Partnership Enterprise to Produce Applied Health and Nursing Services Researchers in Canada
Patricia Conrad

Electronic Healthcare
The Impact of Diagnostic Imaging Investments on the Canadian Healthcare System
Simon Hagens, David Kwan, Craig Savage and Mark Nenadovic

World Health and Population
Global Nurse Migration: Its Impact on Developing Countries and Prospects for the Future
Amir A. Khaliq, Robert W. Broyles, and Ari K. Mwachofi

Today’s featured Podcast:

Breakfast With The Chiefs from December 11, 2007:

What is the research telling us about the quality of work-life for nurses and its implications for their retention and recruitment?
Linda O'Brien-Pallas and Tom Closson

Running time: 1 hour and 45 seconds

Listen here.
See the video 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

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, GE Healthcare, IBM, HPME, University of Toronto, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers
This session is at capacity. Please contact Lina Lopez for more information.
This session will be webcast live 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, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAS
Register here.

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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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 21, 2009: Toronto, ON. Sheela Basur Centre Symposium. Managing and Monitoring the Pandemic Threat: Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion scientists on tools and methods, including surveillance and epidemiology, infection control, data modelling, and laboratory testing. Pandemic News: Hyping or Helping Information? Debate on balancing facts and information with potential speculation and hype. 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 register, and for more information click here.

May 27, 2009: Toronto, ON. Emerging Leader Forum: Speaker Series Event featuring Mr. Matthew Anderson, CEO of Toronto Central LHIN. The event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto. For more information, or to RSVP 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 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.

June 11, 2009: Toronto, ON. Health Sector Strategy Speaker Series, “Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results” by guest speaker, Prof. Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard University and author of 18 Books. Hosted by Prof. Brian R. Golden, Sandra Rotman Chair in Health Sector Strategy at The University of Toronto and The University Health Network; Executive Director, Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy and Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman. For more information click here.

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences.

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Julia Scott to Vice President Clinical Programs & CNE, Markham Stouffville Hospital, Markham (ON)
Dr. Kelly Leitch to the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (ON)

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