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“We encourage everybody to call 911 regardless of their weight and situation” Grant Theirren, superintendent of special operations for Emergency Medical Services in Calgary. Treating the Obese is A Big Issue
A National Strategy On Chronic Disease Prevention And Management.
Capital Health In Edmonton Implemented A System-Wide Chronic Disease Management Model
A Community-Researcher Alliance To Improve Chronic Wound Care
Cancercare Ontario Quality Index 2007
CCO - High Performance Improves Access
A Year In The Life Of ACEN!
Longwoods.Com Site Map: An Easy Reference Tool To Download Or Bookmark.
+ Longwoods: How To Get Published . . . And Read.
Canadian Implementation Of Ehealth Projects Is Up.
Canada's First Comprehensive Medical Image Disaster Recovery Services
Shopping For High-Technology Treatment In Another Province
Dot Pringle (OC) Interviewed On MFP TV
SARS Survivors Regain Physical Health But Mental Health Toll Lingers For Some
Looking For Research And Stats Related To A Healthcare Issue In Ontario. ICES inTool helps!
Socioeconomic status is linked to higher ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations in children (scroll down)
From the Health Council: Wading through Wait Times: What Do Meaningful Reductions and Guarantees Mean?
CHCA launches initiative to advance the Information Technology agenda in home care
A Pan Canadian Environmental Scan of Clinical Telehealth Activity
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Did You Know?
Adjusting for inflation, government spending on home care increased from $54.76 per person in 1994–1995 to $93.59 per person in 2003–2004. Meanwhile, the number of patients using government-subsidized home care increased from 24 per 1,000 in 1994–1995 to 26 per 1,000 in 2003–2004. CIHI.ca
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3. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
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Seeking Nominees for Innovation in Clinical Practice Team Award
The Innovation in Clinical Practice Team Award recognizes excellence in clinical practice among Ontario’s health care professionals. Visit www.ohahealthachieve.com or email sjacobs@oha.com. The deadline for submissions is July 19, 2007.
A photo review of Health Achieve 2006: see what you can experience in 2007.
Healthcare Quarterly
Adverse Events in Community Care: Developing a Research Agenda
Paul Masotti, Michael Green, Sam Shortt, Duncan Hunter and Karen Szala-Meneok
HealthcarePapers
An Inconvenient Truth: A Sustainable Healthcare System Requires Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Transformation
Matthew W. Morgan, Nicholas E. Zamora, Michael F. Hindmarsh
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Barriers and Supports for Development of a Clinician Scientist Role in Cerebrovascular Nursing: A Position Paper
Theresa L. Green, Joan Tranmer
Healthcare Policy
Mr. Harrington, Self-Rated Health and the Canadian Chicken
Robert G. Evans
Electronic Healthcare
Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Denmark, Part 2: A Novel Comparison Methodology
Denis Protti, Steven Edworthy and Ib Johansen
World Health and Population
A Pilot Study to Evaluate Malaria Control Strategies in Ogun State, Nigeria
A.K. Adeneye, A.S. Jegede, M.A. Mafe, E.E. Nwokocha
Today’s featured Podcast:
Implementing a Good Catch Program in an Integrated Health System
Debbie Barnard, Marilyn Dumkee, Balvir Bains and Brenda Gallivan
In 2004, the Canadian Adverse Events Study (Baker et al. 2004) determined the incidence rate of adverse events (AE) in Canada to be 7.5%. This translates to approximately 185,000 for the almost 2.5 million annual hospital admissions in Canada. The study noted "close to 70,000 of these AEs were potentially preventable."
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Response: It turns out that home support is central to this form of home care and the cost-effective substitutions it can engender. In addition to the role of preventive home care, as noted above, Hollander (2001b) provides evidence on the benefits of home support in long-term home care. To read Briefing Note 2: Long-Term Home Care click here.
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To see our video archives click here. Thank you for your support. We are now planning a new season starting in September ’07.
Thank you to all who took the time out to respond to the Breakfast with the Chiefs survey. Your comments are key to our planning. Our 2007/2008 program will be announced soon.
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.
July 4-6, 2007: London. UK. Primary Care Research for Better Health: Delivering International Excellence. The 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care. The programme will include keynote presentations, parallel sessions, workshops and posters that address current key issues in primary care research and education. For details click here.
July 4-6, 2007: St. John’s, NFLD. Assessment and Action for Healthy Settings. As the 2nd ANPR Conference this event will focus on healthy environments and will highlight research on disease prevention and health promotion with a special emphasis on approaches and tools for assessing health challenges and opportunities in specific settings as well as for developing and evaluating effective interventions. Proposals for workshops and conference sessions and abstracts for oral and poster presentations are encouraged. For details click here.
July 13-19, 2007. Toronto, ON. Designing Organizations for Value-Creation, Sustainability and Social Well-Being. The GO Society’s conference to support learning, to build trusting relationships between practitioners, to advance knowledge and implementation effectiveness, and to plan and commit to collaborative work to advance the field. 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.
August 26-29, 2007: Winnipeg, MB. Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) 2007 National Conference. The changes in the global marketplace and the explosion of network-driven decision-making are transforming the public service at a pace never before experienced. New demands and innovations continue to affect public administration. This year’s national IPAC conference will help us manage today’s demands while we prepare for tomorrow. For details click 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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Mary Ellen Jeans to President and CEO of Associated Medical Services
Ann McGuire to Chair of the GTA/905 Healthcare Alliance. ON
David Leslie to Chair of the Board of Directors for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto
Mark Rochon appointed supervisor at Stevenson Memorial Hospital in Alliston ON in addition to his position as CEO at Toronto Rehab (We get letters – and this is to clarify.)
Carolyn Baker, President and CEO, St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto, ON announced the following:
Dale McGregor to Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, ON
Andrew Brearton to Corporate Director and Chief of e-Health, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, ON
Kathy Millar to Corporate Director, Patient Safety and Chief of Enterprise Risk Management, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, ON
Wendy Steele to Interim Chief, Human Resources and Organizational Development, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, ON
Mark Vimr to Executive Vice President, Clinical and Professional Programs and Services and Chief of Interprofessional Practice St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto, ON
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