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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has recruited distinguished physicist Kullervo Hynynen from Harvard Medical School to the role of director, imaging research, Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI). At Harvard, Hynynen pioneered the novel use of ultrasound as a non-invasive surgical and therapeutic tool.
ARS MEDICA is a new biannual literary journal that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art Download PDF
In the US, healthcare industry executives have formed the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program, an initiative created to enhance the security of eHealth systems. The program will establish a framework by which eHealth system developers, their customers and security companies communicate vulnerabilities and aid in determining the most appropriate mitigation strategy.
Emergis Inc. has signed contracts with the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information (NLCHI) to deploy and support a comprehensive, province-wide drug information system (DIS) solution, its Health integration infrastructure, and a thorough change management program to support the adoption of the solution by healthcare professionals. Emergis expects the solution to go online in the first half of 2008.
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Providence Manor Wheelchair Driver’s Licence Download PDF See the real thing.
Resources for Health System Planners, Managers and Decision Makers Click Here
Mini Med School Planning Guide Download PDF
First survey to measure smoking rates in Toronto's LGBTTQ communities. To participate go here
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy
Reviewed by Margaret Keating
ElectronicHealthcare
The HIT Report from KLAS: Cardiovascular PACS: Recent KLAS Findings
Jeremy Bikman
Healthcare Quarterly
Improving Linkages Between Family Physicians and Hospitals
Sheryl Farrar, Don Collins-Williams and June Kingston
Healthcare Policy
Missed Opportunity: Patients Who Leave Emergency Departments without Being Seen
Akerke Baibergenova, Kira Leeb, Aleksandra Jokovic, Sharon Gushue
Case Study Library
Linking Health Services at the Community Level
Ronald Lagoe, Theodore Pasinski, Paul Kronenberg, Thomas Quinn and Phillip Schaengold
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. Current Featured Article: A Prescription for Improvement: A Short Survey to Identify Reasons behind Public Sector Pharmacists' Migration Gamal K. Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Abdelrahman and Abdeen M. Omer Be sure your individual subscription is up to date. Sign up online - http://www.longwoods.com/premium.php?cat=10 or contact Barbara Marshall – bmarshall@longwoods.com or 416-864-9667. |
Dr. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group
Annual Review of IM/IT in Healthcare. The Unvarnished Version PDF (568 KB)
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Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Lanier Healthcare, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), Ray & Berndtson and TELUS.
For more information visit the Breakfast with the Chiefs web page: Click Here
* To attend, you need to be a member of the HealthcareBoard. Ask Lina for details.
Visit the ‘Breakfast with the Chiefs’ photo galleries. Click here. Go ahead treat this like a picture-blog -- add your comments.
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.
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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.
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CAREERS: sent to +20,000 people including Canada’s student nurses.
Health Information Management Supervisor - Pembroke Regional Hospital, Pembroke, ON
Director of Communications and Marketing - Comprehensive Care International (CCI)
Child Health Services Portfolio Director - The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, ON
Program Coordinator,Joint Program in Health Informatics - HPME, University of Toronto
Administrator - Longwoods Publishing, Toronto, ON
Director, Client Services Management – 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
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Career Opportunities at Northern Health Authority
Healthcare Quarterly Careers - June/06 - (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)
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