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Longwoods eLetter August 4, 2009

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“Nurses often do not know how to use information when they get it.” Dorothy Pringle and Lynn Nagle in this issue of Electronic Healthcare.

Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century by Andrew Nikiforuk
On October 17, 2004, a Thai smuggler wrapped the two small crested eagles from Tibet in cotton cloths. Then he placed each bird into a 60-centimetre (24-inch) wicker tube, making sure the raptors had room to breathe. With the tubes hidden in his hand luggage, the avian transport boarded Eva Airways Flight BR0061 from Bangkok to Vienna, along with 128 other jet-setters. More.

Longwoods ranks in the top 100,000 Canadian websites.(Currently at 81,236 on Alexa.com). Enjoy. Use our search engine for any healthcare related topic. Any.

“Cancer” searched more often on Google than “flu,” “heart attack,” and “diabetes.” Click here.

The Longwoods Scholar Competition at the Advanced Health Leadership Program Joseph L. Rotman School of Management | University of Toronto. Apply now. More.

CMS Changes Driving Rapid Growth for Infection Control Software. More.

Healthcare Providers and IT Vendors Far Apart on Creative Solutions for a Tough Economy. More.

Post your position for a Front Line Nurse here. It's Free!! (Call us crazy. This was an experiment. It’s very popular and we’re keeping it free.)

Connect with your peers, healthcare industry experts and Cerner associates at the Cerner Health Conference (CHC), 4-7 October 2009, in Kansas City, Mo., USA. Details here: www.cerner.com/chc. (Longwoods helps create national and international partnerships across sectors to translate research, build capacity and generate ideas to advance good care. Our partnership with Cerner is only one example.)

Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies. Think of him as a hacker of the human brain -- writing routines that exploit its bugs and loopholes, and offering a revealing look at the software between our ears. Watch his video here.

Brain Star is a program of the Institute of Neurosciences Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA). Brain Star is administered under the Institute Community Support Grants and Awards program and is designed to recognize the excellence of research done in Canada by students and trainees in all fields and disciplines covered by our Institute. Full applications must be submitted between June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2009.

The Time Has (Finally) Come for the Digital Hospital (PDF)
Hospital IT environments have featured piecemeal implementations, which might satisfy financial management concerns, but do little to increase patient comfort and care or meet increasingly sophisticated departmental needs.

Visit fightflu.ca for information on symptoms, protecting yourself and others, and travel information from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Funding is available for research related to the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak. Catalyst Grant: Pandemic Outbreak Research Response. Institute of Infection and Immunity in partnership with the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research of CIHR. Application Deadline: 2009-08-10.

Leading Together 2010—Canadian HIV/AIDS Skills Building Symposium. Call for abstracts. March 4-7, 2010. Montreal, Quebec. For more information visit the Canadian AIDS Society Skills Building Symposium web site: www.hivaids-skills.ca

The WSIB Research Advisory Council (RAC) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for short-term research and application development projects that encourage short, research-based projects which address clearly identified workplace needs and promote collaboration among workplaces, partner organizations, and researchers. The deadline for applications is 4:00 p.m. Monday, August 31, 2009. More.

The Walkerton Clean Water Centre has a call out for research proposals on Drinking Water (including small systems). Areas of particular interest are: Treatment, Source water, Health, Response, and Preparedness. The first submission deadline is September 30th, 2009. For more information, go here or contact Lou D’alessandro at ldalessandro@bmts.com

CIHR and its partners announce the July 2009 Funding Opportunities and Priority Announcements for the fall 2009 open competitions. More.

IPPH funding opportunities can be found here by selecting the Institute of Population and Public Health under the CIHR Institute dropdown menu.

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Healthcare Quarterly
Strengthening the Value of Accreditation: Qmentum - One Year Later
Wendy Nicklin, Gilles Lanteigne and Paula Greco

HealthcarePapers
Healthcare-Associated Infections: Infection Prevention and Control within the Accreditation Canada Qmentum Program
Wendy Nicklin, Paula Greco and Jonathan I. Mitchell

Nursing Leadership
Practice Doctorates in Nursing: Developing Nursing Leaders
Sonia Acorn, Kimberley Lamarche and Margaret Edwards

Healthcare Policy
The Gatekeeper System and Disparities in Use of Psychiatric Care by Neighbourhood Education Level: Results of a Nine-Year Cohort Study in Toronto
Leah S. Steele, Richard H. Glazier, Mohammad Agha and Rahim Moineddin

Electronic Healthcare
Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Denmark, Part 1: Historical, Technical and Cultural Forces
Denis Protti, Steven Edworthy and Ib Johansen

World Health and Population
Household Use of Inpatient Healthcare Services in India
Chungkham Holendro Singh and Laishram Ladusingh

2009/2010 Line Up

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - Toronto. ON
André Picard, Award-Winning Journalist, The Globe and Mail
Topic: To be announced
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, HPME, and OHA.
Register here.

Friday, October 2, 2009 - Toronto, ON
Dr. Vivek Goel, Dr. Michael Gardam, Dr. Natasha Crowcroft, Dr. Brian Schwartz and Dr. Jonathan Gubbay
Topic: To be Announced
Location: To be Announced
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, HPME, OHA and Roche
Register here.

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

For sponsorship information please contact Matthew Hart at 416-864-9667 x 113 or email at mhart@longwoods.com

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September 29-30, 2009: Edmonton, AB. 2nd Annual Medical Device Sterilization Forum: Infection Prevention and Control through Safe Sterilization and Reprocessing Practices. Presented jointly by CSA and Accreditation Canada, this two-day forum will provide healthcare decision makers, administrators and their reprocessing staff with the knowledge, tools and operational recommendations to help develop and implement an effective infection prevention and control program through safe sterilization and reprocessing practices. For more information click here.

October 5-6, 2009: Toronto, ON. HIROC and OSACH present: Transformational Leadership. This conference will deliver strategic and inspirational advice from dynamic Canadian leaders on how to build a Culture of Safety in Healthcare. Speakers to include:
Major-General Lewis MacKenzie - “Lessons in Leadership” and Dr. Graham Lowe - How to make your organization’s culture the foundation of safety. For more information click here (PDF).

October 5-7, 2009: Toronto, ON. The Canadian Healthcare Business Development Network Annual meeting. Please join 100+ healthcare business development leaders, CFOs and other healthcare executives in October 2009 in Toronto, for our annual conference, themed Rethinking the Business of Healthcare. We've got an exciting program this year, featuring some of the best ideas and innovative approaches in revenue generation that have hit bottom line in healthcare institutions. The lineup of speakers is excellent, with Executives from Cleveland Clinic, to GE Healthcare, to Deliotte's Centre for Health Solutions, plus much more. Hosted & organized this year by SickKids and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. For more information click here.

October 8, 2009: Toronto, ON. Human Resources Symposium 2009: Delivering on the Human Capital Value Proposition. Brought to you by the Ontario Hospital Association. Hear Dr. David Ulrich, Tom Closson, Anne- Marie Malek, and Dr. Edgardo Perez explain the most important actions that health care leaders can take to enhance the value and sustainability of Ontario's health care system and more. For more information click here.

October 30, 2009: Toronto, ON. Baycrest presents the 9th Annual KLARU Conference - Aging at Home: Connecting Research and Clinical Care, at The Holiday Inn Yorkdale For more infomation click here and click on the conference link.

Shelley Dehay-Turner to Administrative Program Director, Surgery & Oncology, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto
Kim Baker to CEO of the Central Local Health Integration Network.
Hal Fjeldsted to chair of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel (click this link for details)
Brian Bildfell to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Jocelyn Blais to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Lynn Brown to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Mike Brown to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Margret Comack to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Sheri Doxtator to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Kathy Faries to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Kelly Isfan to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Carol Mitchell to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Dr. Terry O'Driscoll to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Raymond Pong to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Doug Reycraft to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Gerry Rowlands to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel
Donna Williams to member of Ontario's Rural and Northern Health Care Panel

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Today's Jobs
Chief Executive Officer - The Alzheimer Society of Canada
Director, Programs - The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Director, Quality and Utilization Improvement - Providence Health Care BC
Manager of Regional Renal Program - Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Peterborough. ON
Manager of Nephrology/Medicine Inpatients - Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Peterborough. ON
Director, Research Operations - Bloorview Kids Rehab, Toronto, ON
Director, Corporate Planning & Projects - Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, ON
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - The Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Quality Improvement Advisor - Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Whitby, ON
Director, Member Outreach Services for the Ontario Medical Association
President & CEO - Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Sudbury ON
Vice President, Operations - Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Markham, ON
Chief Executive Officer - The New Brunswick Medical Society
Vice President, Knowledge Management - Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Contracts & Performance Specialist, Residential & Assisted Living Services - Fraser Health, BC
Clinical Operations Leader, ICU - St. Paul’s Hospital, Providence Health Care BC
Clinical Nurse Leader/Patient Educator - St. Paul’s Hospital, Providence Health Care BC
Executive Director, ACEN - Ottawa, ON
Nursing & Leadership Opportunities with the Provincial Health Services Authority of BC
Career Opportunities at Courtyard Group
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