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“Americans are more likely than Canadians to go to extremes.” Bob Evans looks at the work of Jack Williams
Infoway says it will work with physicians and make them better users of electronic healthcare technology.
Physicians take note: Consumers with a greater understanding of possible treatments can be expected to be more demanding of their physicians and less forgiving of their errors. Claims of professional negligence are likely to increase as patients disagree with steps taken by their doctors. Physician have a duty to become informed, and to stay informed. The failure to do so may carry greater consequences. Here’s a legal opinion.
On a different tack, here’s a case study that Infoway and its team might study as they roll out their plan.
Infoway says that consumerism in healthcare is like a tsunami. Some background . . .
Here’s what Canadian statistics said five years ago.
Don't Look South for Answers: The Role of Cultural Imperatives in Canadian and US Healthcare
And see what consumer owned health care - American style - looks like. Download PDF
Infoway’s new plan for to deal with these and other issues will be out shortly. Watch for it.
In the meantime we read that a US Presidential candidate proposes to spend $3 billion a year to help doctors and hospitals implement health IT, hoping to build a new system of incentives for doctors to use the technology. Government Health IT]
Electronic Healthcare News
Agfa HealthCare unveiled ORBIS, its Hospital and Clinical Information System, for the first time in Canada at the e-Health Conference 2007. The number one choice for Electronic Patient Records (EPR) in Europe, Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS has been successfully deployed in over 750 institutions with more than 450,000 daily users
The Program in Innovations in Patient Safety and Knowledge Translation at the University of Calgary/Calgary Health Region and University of Toronto/St. Michael’s Hospital is seeking applications from candidates interested in completing graduate studies or a research fellowship in this area. Click here for more information.
"MedShare's health care information solution on the BlackBerry platform can help facilitate better collaboration and improve administrative efficiencies for home care professionals and other health care professionals in the field." - Jeff McDowell, Vice President, Global Alliances at Research In Motion
Our Blog’s note about Lindsay McCreith — A Reader wrote...
Re your following brain tumor/private care story. It would be more accurate to insert “allegedly” forced out of province care. No proof yet that treatment not available in timely fashion in Ontario. This will be a very interesting story and may be very influential case, so I think your reporting should be accurate.
From OHA and Longwoods: Call for Submissions: Nursing Leadership Award | Leading [Best] Practices Posters | Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education. Click here for more information or Download PDF
G. 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.
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) ratify scientific partnership agreement. full story
Mr. Harrington, Self-Rated Health and the Canadian Chicken
. . . from work completed by Jack Williams and colleagues. Click here
NEWS
. . . . on the electronic front. More details here
The Presidents of Canada's three granting agencies respond to the Government of Canada's announcement on the new Science and Technology Strategy: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) expressed their commitment to Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada's Advantage, the Government of Canada's new science and technology strategy. The strategy addresses priority issues such as improving health and protecting the quality of the environment.
Meanwhile . . .
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Healthcare Policy
The New General Practice Contract and Reform of Primary Care in the United Kingdom
Stephen Peckham
Healthcare Quarterly
CIHI Survey: Hospital Readmissions for Patients with Mental Illness in Canada
Nawaf Madi, Helen Zhao and Jerry Fang Li
HealthcarePapers
Infostructure and the Revitalization of Public Health in Canada
Gregory P. Marchildon, Kathleen McNut
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Leadership in Nursing Research: Lessons from NAHBR and NEXUS
Electronic Healthcare
Developing an Electronic Incident Report: Experiences of a Multi-site Teaching Hospital
Anita Tepfers, Hannah Louie and Marc Drouillard
World Health and Population
Inequalities in Reproductive Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2004
Amal Krishna Halder, Unnati Rani Saha, M Kabir
Today’s featured Podcast: Toronto Hospital Reduces Sharps Injuries by 80%, Eliminates Blood Collection Injuries (Read it here.)
Toronto East General Hospital Pioneers Healthcare Worker Safety
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Question: What are regional boards' patterns of action in the governance process and how do these patterns favour policy implementation?
Response: Analyzing the role of regional boards illuminates the ways in which governance structures can support complex changes. That said, we believe that if what is at stake is no longer to implement a health policy but to coordinate such policies to produce optimal efficiency, population-based regional governance is probably more effective than other models (e.g., governance centred on the organization of services by diseases). Regionalization's added value resides precisely in the coordination of disease-based networks with primary care services. Such coordination is essential to the continuity and comprehensiveness of care. To view article click here.
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Our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs: One hundred and fifty Chiefs and aspiring chiefs heard Matt Anderson as interviewer 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 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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