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“... up to one-third of Canadians are unaware that they have diabetes, increasing their risk of developing serious complications down the road, including amputation, eye disease, kidney failure, heart disease, stroke and nerve damage." Barbara Every: Better for Ourselves and Better for Our Patients: Chronic Disease Management in Primary Care Networks. Healthcare Quarterly, 10(3) 2007: 70-74
Re-Thinking Healthcare for the Elderly (Abstract and contacts). Marcus J. Hollander, Neena L. Chappell, Michael J. Prince, Evelyn Shapiro
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IT and Patient Safety not on the same page.
Most IT departments do not participate on their organization’s patient safety committee and Patient Safety Initiatives AND these initiatives do not have a consistent champion within healthcare organizations. One of many findings reported in this year’s 18th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey reports the opinions of information technology (IT) executives from healthcare provider organizations across the U.S. regarding the use of IT in their organizations. Download PDF
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Providing Care and Support for an Aging Population: Briefing Notes on Key Policy Issues
Marcus J. Hollander, Neena L. Chappell, Michael J. Prince and Evelyn Shapiro
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Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Denmark, Part 1: Historical, Technical and Cultural Forces
Denis Protti, Steven Edworthy and Ib Johansen
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
The Nurse Practitioner Role: Into the Future
Pamela Pogue
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Mr. Harrington, Self-Rated Health and the Canadian Chicken
Robert G. Evans
World Health and Population
Geographic Targeting of Risk Zones for Childhood Stunting and Related Health Outcomes in Burkina Faso
Florence Margai
Today’s featured Podcast: Leading Change across Two Sites: Introduction of a New Documentation System
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Strong nursing leadership, in conjunction with a transformational change approach, leads to the
successful implementation of a new documentation system
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Response: Much work has been done to promote the role of the nurse practitioner across Canada as provinces and territories learn from one another and overcome barriers to furthering this advanced practice nursing role (CNA 2006). The context within which the NP role is being implemented across Canada is important. The role has the opportunity to evolve as a catalyst for change that may strengthen our collective thinking about nursing in a preferred future. 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.
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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