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Longwoods eLetter June 6, 2006
[Re-issued with correct links]

"Go Edmonton" - All Canadians

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Call for Papers – ElectronicHealthcare is looking for papers and case studies in medical infomatics. Got an idea or question? Contact Dianne Foster Kent at dkent@longwoods.com

Do you teach nursing students? Remind them that if they are members of the Canadian Student Nurse’s Association they can have free unlimited access to the complete library of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership. All they need to do is fill out this profile and select their student status.

Canada Health Infoway has formed a team of clinician advisors - doctors, nurses and pharmacists - to communicate the benefits of health information technology to their respective professional communities and to provide advice on technology adoption challenges faced by healthcare providers. Click here

International Best Practices Displays Call for Submissions - deadline June 14, 2006. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to showcase new and innovative programs and activities through the International Best Practices Poster Display at OHA HealthAchieve2006. Visit www.ohahealthachieve.com for the submission guidelines and online application form.

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Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Case Study: Reconciling the Quality and Safety Gap through Strategic Planning
Lianne Jeffs, Jane Merkley, Jana Jeffrey, Ella Ferris, Janice Dusek and Catherine Hunter

ElectronicHealthcare
Performance Indicators for Information Technology Services at Four Community Hospitals
Pegi Rappaport, Gerry Dimnik, Rodney Burns and Jamie Bowie

Healthcare Policy
Research Output of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Industry: Where Has All the R&D Gone?
Norman Kalant and Ian Shrier

HealthcarePapers
Pay-for-Performance of Publicly Financed Health Care:Some International Experience and Considerations for Canada
George H. Pink, Adalsteinn D. Brown, Melanie L. Studer, Kristin L. Reiter and Peggy Leatt

World Health & Population – Don’t miss the next article. Check www.worldhealthandpopulation.com weekly for new articles. Only $8 each or an annual subscription for $40.

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BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – now available online | enabled by TELUS
Michael Decter: Health Care Renewal in Canada: Clearing the Road to Quality | Click to Watch Video Presentation
Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Compass Group Canada, Healthtech, Lanier Healthcare, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and TELUS

BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – Don’t miss the last Breakfast of the 05/06 Season - TOMORROW
Toronto*. Richard Alvarez, CEO, Canada Health Infoway. Topic: Infoway's Annual Report. Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Cerner, Dell Canada, Healthtech, Lanier Healthcare, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), Philips Medical Systems, and TELUS. Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. (join us for breakfast at 7:30 a.m.) | Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 3M6, Room 106 (ground floor). Map. Register with Lina Lopez at llopez@longwoods.com. NOTE: This presentation will not go online. Onsite participation has its priviledges.

Visit the ‘Breakfast with the Chiefs’ photo galleries. Click here. Go ahead treat this like a picture-blog -- add your comments.

Stay tuned for a list of our upcoming speakers. The 2006/2007 Breakfast with the Chiefs series already includes: Anne Cavoukian, Ross Baker, Alan Bernstein, Hon. Tony Clement, Hon. George Smitherman, Jeff Lozon, Sheila Weatherill, John Tory and the Hon. Philippe Couillard. More coming soon.

* To attend, you need to be a member of the HealthcareBoard. Ask Lina for details.

CONFERENCES & EVENTS
June 09, Toronto. ANEGTA 2006 Annual Meeting and Luncheon + Leading in your Organization – Perspectives to Shape Nursing Administrative Strategies. Download PDF

June 19, 2006: 10:30am-11:00am EST/: Join an executive discussion on change with the world’s leading provider of healthcare services in a live, interactive webcast, presented by Hewlett-Packard (HP). McKesson CEO John H. Hammergren and CIO Randall N. Spratt will table many of the IT and healthcare-related issues that you grapple with each and every day. Make a date with change. Register at www.hp.com/go/changeartists.

Infoway: Collaborating with Healthcare Information Technology Solution Providers - Summer 2006 series. For senior and middle management in sales, marketing, business development, product development and services. 2 hour meetings. See schedules and Click here to register.

June 22, 2006: HIMSS Ontario Annual General Meeting. Featuring Dr. Adalsteinn Brown and six other dynamic presentations. Details here

July 28-30, 2006: WorldFuture 2006. Creating Global Strategies for Humanity's Future, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. See the web site at http://www.wfs.org and click on "2006 Toronto."

August 12, 2006, Toronto. International Nursing Forum: Nurses at the Forefront of HIV/AIDS:
http://www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/news/events/aids_forum/default_e.aspx.
You can register here: registration@unconventionalplanning.com.

November 6-8, 2006: OHA HealthAchieve2006 - register online today and take advantage of the Super Early Bird Promotion. Special Rates available only until July 28, 2006! For details click here.

November 13-17, 2006: Health Leaders Institute. A Unique Health Care Leadership Development Experience. For details go to this webpage: http://www.healthleaders.ca

How to get value from a conference. If you believe that success is about pushing yourself to learn new things, to change, and to build a web of personal relationships, then going to the right conferences, and attending them in the right way, can be critical to your strategy for staying on the cutting edge -- both in your organization and in your career. Learn more 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.

[We don’t go looking for these conferences. Send details to conferences@longwoods.com]

GRANTS & AWARDS
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) is pleased to announce its second annual Grants Competition for research and Demonstration projects. The funding will be divided between two streams, “Applied Health Services Research” and “Demonstration Projects”. For details: www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca. Application Deadline: July 12, 2006.

The Society of Graduates in HPME is calling for applications/nominations for FOUR Awards: two Graduate Literary Awards - one for a Health Services Management paper and one for a Health Evaluation or Health Policy paper, a Leadership Award and an Innovation Award. For details: http://www.hpme.utoronto.ca/English/Alumni-Awards.html. Submission Deadline: June 15, 2006.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The OHA’s 2006 Healthcare Awards include: International Best Practices | Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership | The Robo Award | Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education |Call for Submissions are Now Open! All awards will be presented at the OHA HealthAchieve2006 held on November 6 to 8 in Toronto. Visit here

TRANSITIONS
Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston General Hospital and Providence Continuing Care Centre to University Hospitals Kingston (Each organization will retain its own distinctive name.)
Dr. David Tannenbaum to Family Physician-in-Chief of the Ray D. Wolfe Department of Family Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
John Soloninka to Associate Partner, IBM, Global Business Services, Health Care Consulting Practice
Gay Fright to Associate Partner, IBM, Global Business Services, Health Care Consulting Practice
Neil Seeman to Senior Consultant, IBM, Global Business Services, Health Care Consulting Practice

Review all recently reported Transitions here

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Project Director, Integrated Cerner Clinical Information System, - VIHA, Victoria, BC
Project Director, HRIS/Payroll Project - VIHA, Victoria, BC
Director, Outreach Services - Providence Continuing Care Centre (PCCC), Kingston, ON
Student Nurse Burseries - Northwest Territories Health and Social Services
Challenging Opportunities - Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Nursing Career Opportunities - MUHC. Montreal
Specialty Nursing Education and Career Information
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
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Career Opportunities at Northern Health Authority
Healthcare Quarterly Careers - June/06 - (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)

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Longwoods eLetter June 6, 2006 [Re-issued with correct links]

Longwoods eLetter June 6, 2006
[Re-issued with correct links]