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“ ...female[s] ... exposed to the pheromones of dominant males generate new brain cells." The University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute hopes to harness this natural process to help the 7,500 people in southern Alberta who suffer a brain injury every year. Almost half are from stroke, aneurysm or heart attacks. Read more here. Read about Ontario's stroke stategy here
Healthcare Quality Resources From the Commonwealth Fund: You can E-mail This source to a friend.
Control Over Time and Work-Life Balance examines work schedules, work time and work-life balance. From our HRResources.
It's a matter of trust to build a trust-based corporate culture. From our HRResources.
Under Pressure: Implications of Work-Life Balance and Job Stress: two national surveys, one of employers and the other of workers
On the Longwoods Blog Michael Moore's answer to the problems facing US healthcare policy makers.
An investment with a pay out within 13 months. $1 billion in upfront costs (capital) and $780 million in annual operating costs will implement a national CDPM program for four key disease groups. This could realize annual benefits of $1.6 billion in avoided healthcare costs.
Longwoods.com web traffic is up. Way up. In the quarter of April/May/June’07 we had 434,779 visits -- an increase of +63% compared to a year ago. These visitors viewed 1,210,623 web pages. Thank you. According to ComScore Media Metrix the biggest gains on the web were made by Political sites, Lotto/Sweepstake sites and Education/Information (that category was up 16% last month. Over the same period Longwoods was up 18.5%).
Are you competing to become a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) in health and related life sciences and technologies? Longwoods Publishing invites you to explore with us the key criteria of Knowledge Dissemination and Sharing. Please contact the publisher. More information on this competition is available here: PDF Version.
Top ten papers viewed during the month of June, 2007
The SexEducator: A resource from Quebec. Worth looking at. This issue: Waiting or having a child during adolescence : gaining a better understanding of what it means and of the issues involved
Saving millions. How an ER strategy for heart failure can save the system +$210 million per annum. From St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The 2007 Healthcare Awards at OHA HealthAchieve2007 are Now OPEN. Submit today! Visit here.
Did You Know?
Over half (52%) of people discharged from inpatient rehabilitation in 2005–2006 who had suffered major multiple trauma—which can include brain and spinal cord injury and multiple fractures or amputation—were employed prior to their admission to hospital. Among these individuals, 41% returned to work immediately upon discharge from inpatient rehabilitation. CIHI.ca
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Healthcare needs some new words.
Introduced last week this diversion has created a fascinating lexicon you will want to use from time to time. One more week of entries then we’ll publish the 20 best words. Put on your beanie hats and put your brain to the test: Take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are a few ideas to prime the pump. (Idea courtesy of Washington Post's Mensa Invitational
1. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
2. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
3. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
The top 20 entries we select will win a free one year virtual subscription to all Longwoods journals.
Send your answers to beanie@longwoods.com
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
Patients Are Destined to Manage Their Care
Kevin J. Leonard and David Wiljer
HealthcarePapers
Chronic Disease Management: The Primary Care Perspective
Pauline Bragaglia, Lewis O'Brien
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Nurse Practitioners in Canadian Heart Failure Clinics: Evidence to Support Their Presence on Healthcare Teams
Thérèse L. Thompson, Margaret Dykeman
Healthcare Policy
The Relationship between Characteristics of Home Care Nursing Service Contracts under Managed Competition and Continuity of Care and Client Outcomes: Evidence from Ontario
Diane Doran, Jennie Pickard, Janet Harris, Peter C. Coyte, Andrew R. MacRae, Heather Laschinger, Gerarda Darlington, Jennifer Carryer
Electronic Healthcare
Recognizing the Importance of Proactive Reporting at a Large Urban Teaching Hospital
Hannah Louie and Anita Tepfers
World Health and Population
Living Arrangements and the Role of Caregivers among the Elderly in Latin America
Antonio J. Trujillo, Thomas A. Mroz, Gustavo Angeles
Today’s featured Podcast:
A Capitol Approach: Tobacco Treatment and Cessation within Nova Scotia's Capitol Health District
Shawn Jolemore, Dan Steeves
The following article describes the rationale, guiding principles, key components and future directions of APTS's "To Be Tobacco Free" program.
Listen here. Read the article here.
Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio read this . . .
This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using storytelling, compelling lectures or gripping interviews – using simple digital recordings that we distribute on the web. Formatted for iPod listeners too. For criteria and specifications please contact Rebecca Hart at RHart@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance of course.
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A feature presented by Longwoods Publishing in collaboration with a pool of leading experts in the design and management of healthcare organizations.
Response: It is not well recognized by policy makers that a properly constructed continuing care system, in terms of public expenditures, would constitute the third-largest component of the Canadian healthcare system after hospitals and medical services. … 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.
[We don't go looking for these conferences. Send details to conferences@longwoods.com]
Dr. Alan Bernstein to resign as President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, effective October 31, 2007. Dr. Bernstein became the inaugural President of CIHR in June 2000
Dr. Barry McLellan to President and CEO of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Toronto ON
Dieter Pagani to Business Director of Enterprise Solutions at Agfa HealthCare
Kurtina Hammerlein, at Sydenham District Hospital, The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, ON
Shirley Mihalco to Chair St.Joseph’s Hospital, The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, ON
Jennifer Wilson to Chair Public General Hospital, The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, ON
Debra Harris to Vice President – Clinical Services, Wellington Health Care Alliance, ON
Dr. Mark Tremblay to the Childhood Obesity Research team at CHEO (Ottawa)
Kevin Glasgow to National Executive Director, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada
Mo Elbestawi to Vice-President, Research and International Affairs, McMaster University
Chris Deja to Managing Director, Central and Atlantic Region, Knightsbridge
Colleen McKinnell to Vice-President, Human Resources, Knightsbridge
Jean-Charles Lima to Managing Director, Eastern Region, Knightsbridge
Karen Wright to Principal and National Practice Lead, Executive Coaching, Knightsbridge
Ralph Shedletsky to Chief Operating Officer, Knightsbridge
Jeffrey M. Hauswirth to Director, Spencer Stuart
Review all recently reported Transitions here.
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