From RNAO: International Conference & Workshop - The Solution in Health Care Transformation | October 21 - 24, 2008, Beijing, China. Submit your abstract | Submission deadline is June 30, 2008. | Visit www.RNAO.org/ChinaConference for submission instructions and forms.

From The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation: Call for Promising Practices in Research Use has launched a call for applicants for Promising Practices in Research Use – a series that highlights healthcare organizations that have invested their time, energy and resources in improving their ability to use evidence. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2008. For more details download the PDF.

DID YOU KNOW?
More than half of people who donate an organ do so while still alive. More at CIHI.

SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
Plus de la moitié des donneurs d’organe sont des donneurs vivants.

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Leading Change in the Transformation of Arthritis Care: Development of an Inter-professional Academic-Clinical Education Training Model
Katie Lundon, Rachel Shupak, Lorraine Sunstrum-Mann, Debbie Galet and Rayfel Schneider

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Access and Quality in Canada's Parallel Public Healthcare Systems: Is the Impact of Workers' Compensation Boards a Net Positive?
Carolyn Hughes Tuohy

Nursing Leadership
The Power behind Empowerment for Staff Nurses: Using Foucault's Concepts
Sonia A. Udod

Healthcare Policy
Analysis of International Migration Patterns Affecting Physician Supply in Canada
Mamoru Watanabe, Melanie Comeau and Lynda Buske

Electronic Healthcare
Computerized Physician Order Entry Usage in North America: The Doctor Is In
Stacilee Oakes Whiting and Adam Gale

World Health and Population
Work Status and Health of Women: A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern States of Rural India
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv Narayan Sidh

CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Public Reporting: One Piece of the Quality Improvement Puzzle

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2008/2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Toronto
Dr. Alan Hudson
Dr. Alan Hudson is Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Topic: The Future of Healthcare Governance in Ontario
Location: Toronto
Sponsors:  ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP Canada, HPME - University of Toronto, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
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October 22, 2008 – Toronto
Matt Anderson
Matt Anderson is the CEO - Toronto Central LHIN
Topic: Exceptional Patient Centred Healthcare: integrated, collaborative, accessible and accountable. The case for technology.
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare

Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs (dates TBD)
Dr. Vivek Goel, President and CEO of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion; Ida Goodreau, President and CEO for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).

For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.

Leadership Challenges in Creating Safer Care - Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Dr. Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), University of Toronto and editor of the Healthcare Quarterly on Patient Safety. This event supported by: 3M, Accenture, Healthtech, HP, Microsoft, Philips Medical Systems, TELUS

The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts.  If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.

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With its theme, Inspiring Ideas and Innovation, HealthAchieve2008 is Canada’s largest health care show, attracting thousands of hospital leaders and health care professionals from across the country. This year, HealthAchieve will be held November 3, 4 & 5 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Featuring keynote addresses from the Rt. Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Uwe Reinhardt and Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthAchieve2008 promises to be a truly inspiring event! For further information, visit www.healthachieve.com.

July 6-9, 2008: Brisbane, AU. A Global World - Practical Action for Health and Well Being. The Population Health Congress 2008. Major themes are: environment and health, social cohesion, social capital and health, food and health. For details click here.

July 21-22, 2008: Toronto, ON. Intervention Mapping: Developing and Evaluating Theory and Evidence-Based Programs. Professor Nell Gottlieb, co-author of Health Promotion Planning: An Intervention Mapping Approach, will be presenting an introductory course on Intervention Mapping. All registrants will receive a copy of the book. This course is for both researchers and non-researchers interested in the evaluation of program interventions. After two days, you will have a basic knowledge of intervention mapping tools and be able to engage in project-based intervention mapping. For details click here.

August 25-29, 2008: Vancouver, BC. 26th International System Safety Conference. The ISSC 2008 conference will provide evidence-informed, practical knowledge about how best to integrate new knowledge and practical applications of recent thinking about methods to achieve enhanced safety. The conference features opinion leaders from the fields of high reliability, resilience engineering and human factors including Richard Cook, a physician, educator, and researcher at the University of Chicago. The conference usually draws people from risk critical industries, such as aviation, the petro-chemical and nuclear power industries, and the military; and has increasingly been introducing themes of specific interest to health care. For details click here.

September 17-20: Toronto, ON. 5th International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference Leadership in Advanced Nursing Practice: Maximizing Health, Celebrating Collaboration and Promoting Innovation. Presented jointly by the Canadian Association of Advanced Practice Nurses (CAAPN) and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). This conference will inspire advanced practice nurses around the globe to learn new ways to handle challenges, and will provide an exciting opportunity to network with clinicians, administrators, policy-makers, educators, researchers, students, and interdisciplinary colleagues. Topics include Nurse Practitioner Roles in Anesthesiology and Models of APN role evaluation. International Speakers include Ann Hamric, Dorothy Brooten and Stephen Lewis. For details click here.

October 17, 2008: Toronto, ON - 8th Annual Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit (KLARU) Conference “Connecting Research and Clinical Care: Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Settings”. Attendees will be updated on recent advances of safety improvements as well as practical applications for long-term care providers to take back to their organizations to implement best practices. For more information, click here.

February 19-22, 2009: Victoria, BC. Revolutionizing Healthcare with Informatics: From Research to Practice. Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare in Canada and internationally. In order to achieve this potential there will need to be a stronger bridge between research and practice in order to solve complex healthcare problems using technology and to develop best practices based on proven results. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 30, 2008. For details click here.

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