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“Efficiency in Canada will be achieved through the integration of providers and through a population-based approach to care provision.” Peter Nord
Ross Baker awarded Filerman Prize – story. Download PDF
Transparency for patients and public access to information. Ontario to make changes to the Regulated Health Professions Act. Focus is errors and discipline Download PDF
“I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.” 122-years old Mme. Calment, who also rubbed olive oil on her skin. Notes from Dr. Joe Schwarcz, McGill University’s Office for Science and Society
Google's Healthcare Strategy. A looking glass for the near future. Download PDF
Healthcare system rankings for Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom show the U.S. healthcare system ranks last and Canada next-to-last on five dimensions of a high performance health system: quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives. The U.S. is the only country in the study without universal health insurance coverage, partly accounting for its poor performance on access, equity, and health outcomes. If you would like to explain Canada’s ranking please write editors@longwoods.com
Cancer Research update: Special report in Canadian Cancer Statistics 2007, just released.
Custom Publishing offering peer review and indexing. A Longwoods service. Download PDF
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The 2007 Healthcare Awards at OHA HealthAchieve2007 are now OPEN. Submit today! Visit here or here
Ross Baker has been re appointed as editor of the next annual Patient Safety Papers issue published by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. [Wendy Nicklin, Chair and Phil Hassen, CEO.] Past issues were co-published in collaboration with the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation, the Health Council of Canada, and the Ontario Hospital Association. Please submit abstracts or summaries of no more than 250 words to Rebecca Hart, Managing Editor, at rhart@longwoods.com no later than June 22, 2007. Please click here for more details
Recruiting leaders and aspiring leaders? Help is at hand. Post your career listing on the Longwoods Healthcare JobSheet - your window to a targeted, qualified audience for leadership positions in healthcare - over 140,000 monthly readers. Write Susan Hale for rates and details.
ANNOUNCED
Minister Clement announces 2007 Award of Excellence in Nursing. Winners are: Gail Turner – Happy Valley, Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador; Margaret Levy - Red Bank, New Brunswick; and Paula J. Stefankiw - Balgonie, Saskatchewan. For details download PDF
Eh, communicators – winners of the Hygeia and Hollobon Awards have been posted at www.hcpra.org under “Awards”.
The KT circuit: Jay Ingram - all about Mad Cow Disease Mysteries in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Download PDF
Canada Health Infoway Information Sessions: For more information – including dates, locations, agenda and registration details – click on this link.
. . . from CIHI in May (to date)
Drug Expenditure in Canada
Prescribed drug spending expected to surpass $21 billion in 2006
NTR Analytical Bulletins
Pedestrian injury hospitalizations down 31% in 10 years
Availability of Hospital Mental Health Data, 2004–2005
New CIHI data on hospital mental health services
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Canadian Clinicians Abroad
Sometimes it only feels like third-world medicine. See this from Vancouver.
Patient Safety Papers
Implementing a Policy for Practitioners Infected with Blood-Borne Pathogens
Virginia Roth and Jim Worthington
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reducing Outbreaks and Nosocomial MRSA in a University-Affiliated Hospital
Maryam Salaripour, Pat McKernan, Roslyn Devlin and the Infection Prevention and Control Team
Taking Aim at Fall Injury Adverse Events: Best Practices and Organizational Change
Patricia O'Connor, Joann Creager, Sharon Mooney, Andrea Maria Laizner and Judith A. Ritchie
Enhancing Patient Safety Through a Standardized Model of Physiologic Monitoring
Mary-Anne Davies and Heather Tales
Predicting Changes in Workflow Resulting from Healthcare Information Systems: Ensuring the Safety of Healthcare
Andre Kushniruk, Elizabeth Borycki, Shige Kuwata and Joseph Kannry
Patient Safety in a Pediatric Centre: Partnering with Families
Bonnie Fleming-Carroll, Anne Matlow, Siobhan Dooley, Valerie McDonald, Kimberley Meighan and Kim Streitenberger
Today’s featured Podcast: Linking Health Services at the Community Level (Read it here.)
Ronald Lagoe, Theodore Pasinski, Paul Kronenberg, Thomas Quinn and Phillip Schaengold
This study describes a series of interventions linking hospitals, medical staff physicians, long-term care providers and mental health services in the metropolitan area of Syracuse, New York. The objectives of these interventions were to improve patient outcomes and system-wide efficiency.
Listen here. Running time: 16:36 minutes
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This is 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.
Question: A new manager asks: Healthcare is more complex than any other type of organization. Do you have a guide to lead change in our health region? We seem to be introducing new ideas, technologies and structures with wild abandon.
Response: An answer from Brian Golden, PhD, Sandra Rotman Chaired Professor of Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto and University Health Network, Professor of Strategic Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management and the founding Director of the Rotman Collaborative for Health System Performance.
Though this will use the change at the University Health Network for illustrative purposes, its intended audience includes all healthcare managers, from the most junior to the most senior, in search of a systematic approach to creating order during complex change. Read more here.
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Our last Breakfast with the Chiefs: one hundred and fifty Chiefs and aspiring chiefs heard Matt Anderson as interviewer last week in the second of a series of discussions with Richard Alvarez. We heard about IT’s last frontier – healthcare; Infoway’s new strategic plan – soon to be out; Infoway’s criteria for future spending; consumerism – coming on like a tsunami; the committed role of employers and patient portals; Google’s drive to serving the health sector – as only Google can; regional EMRs; Infoway’s strategy for better uptake by physicians and the importance of demonstrations of technology that works. Stay tuned – the next interviews will be in Montreal and one of Alberta’s academic health sciences centres.
The June 2007, Evidence-based nursing workshop Download PDF will be held at McMaster University in Hamilton.
May 25, 2007: Toronto, ON. Showcasing Successes in Health-care Change, Framing Future Challenges. The symposium will recognize the recipients of this year’s Award Program for Innovation in Nursing Human Resources, showcase Foundation-funded projects that have resulted in improvements in health care, and share the Foundation’s fundamental shift in direction, which includes a focus on health integration and quality improvement. For details click here.
May 27-30, 2007: Quebec City, QC. e-Health 2007: Paths to Transformation. This year’s conference theme is to showcase an unprecedented number of e-health applications that are beginning to deliver on the expected benefits of improved patient outcomes, improved patient safety and improved cost effectiveness in the delivery of care. For details. Click here.
June 4, 2007: Toronto, ON. The Change Foundation Annual General Meeting and Reception. The Hon. Roy Romanow, former Chair of the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, will deliver the keynote address. For details click here.
June 6-8, 2007: Toronto, ON. Annual conference of the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres. Minister of Health and Long Term Care, The Honourable George Smitherman, will speak at the opening of the conference on Wednesday June 6, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. For details click here.
June 8, 2007: Toronto, ON. Clinical and Ethical Issues in Geriatric and Long-Term Care. Lectures and workshops focus on geriatric practice for family physicians and allied health care professionals involved in the care of the aged. 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.
June 12-14, 2007: Toronto, ON. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. Join Canada’s top health services and policy researches at the annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. This year it is being held June 12-14 in Toronto and is linked with the National Health Care Leadership Conference. Plenary speakers include: Roy Romanow, Tom Noseworthy, Bob Evans, Terry Sullivan and Adalsteinn Brown. Over 100 sessions on groundbreaking research. For details click here.
June 14, 2007: Toronto, ON. Balanced Collaborative Government. Learn about best practices for collaborative governance in integrated health care delivery systems. Find out how you can create a culture for collaboration in your organization by attending the Institute of Public Administration of Canada's conference on Balanced Collaborative Governance. For details click here.
August 16-17, 2007: Vancouver, BC. Operations Research In Health Care. This conference brings together leading experts in the field of health care Operations Research (OR) from across Canada and the USA, as well as researchers just starting their careers in this important field. There will be a wide variety of exciting presentations, reflecting the diversity of health care OR and the potential benefits of OR analyses. Operating On Health Care is about building bridges between operations researchers, health care managers, practitioners, and policy makers. For details click here.
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