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Longwoods eLetter June 20, 2006

"When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent." - George Carlin

OFF THE CUFF
Michael Decter, Chair of the Health Council of Canada, has announced his resignation to pursue environmental interests. Hear his very latest thoughts on the state of healthcare's federal | provincial relations driven by a college of national institutes.
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

Here is the official announcement:
Health Council of Canada Vice Chair Dr. Jeanne Besner has agreed to serve as interim Chair following the resignation of founding Chair Michael Decter More

Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Joan Gilmour has released in a 200-page report Entitled Patient Safety, Medical Error and Tort Law: An International Comparison that examines the role of tort (negligence) law and tort reform in facilitating and inhibiting efforts to reduce medical error and improve patient safety. It focuses on Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand (the only one of the five countries to have a no-fault system for accident compensation).

Canadian organizations are much more concerned about a pandemic outbreak than they are prepared for one, according to the findings of a Conference Board of Canada survey (http://www.conferenceboard.ca/PPWG/) released to coincide with the launch of a new Pandemic Preparedness Working Group.

The Canadian Nurse Practitioner Initiative (CNPI) will release its final report today. Nurse Practitioners: The Time is Now lays out a framework that will facilitate the integration and sustainability of the nurse practitioner role in Canada's health system. A PDF version of the report and media release will be available for download starting at 13:00 (EST) at www.cnpi.ca.

RECOMMENDED READING
HealthcarePapers debates Pay-4-Performance in Canada

Notes from the Guest Editor
Mark Rochon

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

Commentary
Is Pay-for-Performance Moving North? P4P Prospects in the Canadian Healthcare System
Bruce E. Landon

Paying for Performance: Neither the End of the Beginning nor the Beginning of the End
Tony Culyer

The Cost of Pay-for-Performance in Healthcare: An Alternative View
Brian R. Golden

Pay-for-Performance - Can It Work in Canada?
Thomas E. Feasby and Cindy Gerdes

Pay-for-Performance = Pay for Quality?
Eliot Halparin and Dave Davis

Individual Pay-for-Performance in Canadian Healthcare Organizations
Moshe Greengarten and Mark Hundert

Mixing the Oil with the Water: Pay-for-Performance in Canadian Healthcare
Les Vertesi

What Pay for What Performance?
Alan R. Hudson

The Authors Respond
George H. Pink, Adalsteinn D. Brown, Melanie L. Studer, Kristin L. Reiter and Peggy Leatt

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Xiaoming Li, Bonita Stanton, Xiaoyi Fang and Danhua Lin

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BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – now available online | enabled by TELUS

Dr. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group
Annual Review of IM/IT in Healthcare. The Unvarnished Version PDF (568 KB)
Click to Watch Video Presentation. Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Lanier Healthcare, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), Ray & Berndtson and TELUS.

Dr. Arthur Porter, CEO, MUHC
Building a world-class health institution PDF (1.2 MB).
Click to Watch Video Presentation. Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Lanier Healthcare, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), and TELUS

BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – SIGN UP NOW FOR NEXT SEASON
2006/2007 Speakers include:
Dr. Anne Cavoukian
Dr. Ross Baker
Dr. Andreas Laupacis
Hon. Tony Clement
Hon. George Smitherman
Jeff Lozon
Dr. Alan Hudson
Sheila Weatherill
John Tory
Hon. Philippe Couillard
...and more

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CONFERENCES & EVENTS
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.

September 27th - 1st October 2006: The 14th International Conference on Cancer Nursing, at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto. 1,500 - 2,000 cancer nurses and researchers are expected to attend. The conference is being jointly organised by the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care (ISNCC) Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (CANO). For details click here

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.

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Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences

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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.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The OHA’s 2006 Healthcare Awards include: 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
Board Members to Local Health Integration Networks. See the latest and complete boards here
Nancy Malcolm, to President and CEO, the New Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
Kathryn Lennox, to Vice President, Community & Ambulatory Care, the New Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
Elizabeth Woodbury, to Vice President, Corporate Effectiveness, the New Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
Heather Maclean, to Vice President, Research & Inter-Professional Education the New Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
Naomi Rose, to Vice President, Strategic Communications the New Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
Mary Beth Montcalm, President and CEO of Providence Healthcare in Toronto, to Chair of the OHA Complex Continuing Care and Rehabilitation Provincial Leadership Council

Review all recently reported Transitions here

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CAREERS: sent to +20,000 people including Canada’s student nurses.
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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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