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Longwoods eLetter July 18, 2006

"I think when you've traveled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level." - Stephen Lewis

New report from Statistics Canada - Access to Health Care Services in Canada

Internationally renowned Canadian, Dr. Joseph B. Martin, Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine, is the inaugural winner of The Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. The new annual Prize offers a significant cash award and is a joint initiative of Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FCIHR) and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS).

Fourteen hospitals have been named to the U.S. News and World Report's annual honor roll for 2006, with Baltimore's Johns Hopkins in the top spot. Click here.

Looking for adventure and challenge? Unique nursing opportunities await you in the Northwest Territories

Healthcare Quarterly
Aim for Excellence: Integrating Accreditation Standards into the Continuous Quality Improvement Framework
Wendy L. Nicklin, Tena McLellan and James A. Robblee

HealthcarePapers
Advocacy and Rationing Are Compatible
Claude Gratton and Margaret Keatings

Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
2002 CNA Code of Ethics: Some Recommendations
June F. Kikuchi

Healthcare Policy
The Public Endorses Collection of Ethnicity Information in Hospital: Implications for Routine Data Capture in Canadian Health Systems
Hude Quan, Alison Wong, Delaine Johnson and William A. Ghali

ElectronicHealthcare
The Effect of Organizational Factors on the Effectiveness of EMR System Implementation - What Have We Learned?
Melanie Studer

World Health & Population
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

Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio read this . . .
This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using story telling, 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.

1. Philip Hassen: Reflections: Ten Months and Where to From Here. PDF (598 KB) |  Click To Watch Video Presentation.
2. Graham Sher: Quality Excellence and Emergency Preparedness: How Canadian Blood Services is Meeting the Challenge. PDF (1.2 MB) | Click To Watch Video Presentation.

* To attend, you need to be a member of the HealthcareBoard. Ask Lina for details. For more information visit the Breakfast with the Chiefs web page: Click Here. Visit the ‘Breakfast with the Chiefs’ photo galleries. Click here. Go ahead treat this like a picture-blog -- add your comments.

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 18 & 19, 2006: Toronto. IHE CANADA WORKSHOP 2006: Connecting for Health: Using Standards to Connect...   Conference on Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), addressing its essential role in the sharing of health information. For more information, please visit: http://www.ihe-canada.com/Events/2006/06Sept18-19.htm

November 1-3, 2006: Health Informatics Bootcamp Edmonton, AB. An intensive on-site and on-line* program introducing key concepts, issues, applications and vendor technologies in Applied Health Informatics. For more information 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.

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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Review all recently reported Transitions here. Do you have appointments or transitions? Send them to transitions@longwoods.com

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Visit our portal of 80 participating healthcare recruitment centres
[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com]

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