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"I've got nothing but the best wishes for George (Smitherman) and I'm hoping that this marriage will help him come out of his shell." Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty congratulating his Minister of Health on getting married, August 5, 2007.
Ontario Hospital per diem rates for inpatient services. Where does your hospital stand? (PDF)
Lagging behind in wait times, incomplete colonoscopies, and TV advertising. The implications from ICES (PDF)
DIVERSION
Lists. We want lists of Ten. Design your own. Each list must apply to healthcare and carry a theme. Each list must have ten items on it. (in the style of David Letterman’s Top Ten List). The list can be serious, may (but doesn’t have to) have a touch of humor and should be defensible and interesting. Here are some examples:
Top ten excuses for long wait lists in healthcare | Top ten reasons why Canada will (not) have private healthcare | Top ten reasons why health care errors will no longer be an issue in ten years | Top ten healthcare CEOs (name your title/vocation) | Top ten healthcare organizations | Top ten innovations introduced over the last ten years | . . . you name it.
If you prefer to be anonymous let us know. We will still publish it if we like it.
Go ahead, make up your own list and submit it to healthcare@longwoods.com. Authors of selected lists receive a full year’s personal subscription to every journal published by Longwoods. Longwoods reserves the right to publish all lists submitted. Authors will be notified and provided an opportunity to edit their material.
. . . and thank you.
Last week’s diversion
If you don’t know Longwoods from Adam’s off ox would you be reading this eLetter? What the heck does this mean? Here’s an answer we liked and selected. (And the author is entitled to a free one-year subscription to everything on Longwoods.com.) See her answer here.
. . . and WHAT WERE YOU READING IN JULY
Readers of Longwoods journals and information were active in July – beyond our expectations. Independent analytics report that longwoods.com generated:
Visits (unique): 201,753 – an increase of 140% compared to one year ago.
Pages viewed: 449,047 – an increase of 68% compared to one year ago.
Hits tallied: 1,415,174 – an increase of 100% compared to one year ago.
The number 1 page viewed in July, 2007: our JobSheet:
The top articles/papers viewed in July, 2007:
No. 1: An Inconvenient Truth: A Sustainable Healthcare System Requires Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Transformation Matthew W. Morgan, Nicholas E. Zamora, Michael F. Hindmarsh
No. 2: Transforming Healthcare Organizations Brian Golden
No. 3: The Nurse Practitioner Role: Into the Future Pamela Pogue
No. 4: Better for Ourselves and Better for Our Patients: Chronic Disease Management in Primary Care Networks Barbara Every
No. 5: Providing Care and Support for an Aging Population: Briefing Notes on Key Policy Issues Marcus J. Hollander, Neena L. Chappell, Michael J. Prince and Evelyn Shapiro
No. 6: Chronic Disease Prevention and Management: Some Uncomfortable Questions Joann Trypuc, Alan Hudson
No. 7: Nurse Practitioner Role: Nursing Needs It Dorothy Pringle
No. 8: Comment on Chaoulli v. Quebec Peter J. Carver
No. 9: Sharpening the Case for Returns on Investment from Clinical Information Systems Kevin Featherly, Dave Garets, Mike Davis, Pat Wise and Pat Becker
No. 10: Adverse Events in Community Care: Developing a Research Agenda Paul Masotti, Michael Green, Sam Shortt, Duncan Hunter and Karen Szala-Meneok
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Over half of Canadians surveyed believe that the availability of nutritious food is very important in preventing obesity. CIHI.ca
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How much is healthcare paying the big suppliers like Compass, Siemens, Source, TELUS, Abbott, Baxter, J&J, Cerner, Lanier, McKesson, Medtronic, Novartis, GE, HP, Accenture, Philips and others? Particularly in British Columbia. Here are some answers that tell the story.
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Spending on Suppliers 06 (PDF)
Vancouver Island Health Authority Spending on Suppliers 06 (PDF)
Provincial [BC] Health Services Spending on Suppliers 06 (PDF)
[Also available]
Fraser Health Authority Spending on Suppliers 06 (PDF)
Northern Health Authority Spending on Suppliers 06 (PDF)
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November 5, 6 & 7, 2007. Toronto, Ontario. Visit www.ohahealthachieve.com
A photo review of HealthAchieve 2006 (PDF): see what you can experience in 2007.
Healthcare Quarterly
Emergency Department Patient Satisfaction Survey in Alberta's Capital Health Region
Robert McKim, Sharon Warren, Carmel Montgomery, Joanne Zaborowski, Colleen McKee, Donna Towers and Brian H. Rowe
Longwoods Review
Emergency Room Waiting: Not Really Necessary
David Levine
Electronic Healthcare
The HIT Report from KLAS: Emergency Department Systems Study; FOCUS: Eight ED Vendor Products Compared. Study Provides Valuable
Insight into the Success of ED Systems.
Healthcare Policy
Missed Opportunity: Patients Who Leave Emergency Departments without Being Seen
Akerke Baibergenova, Kira Leeb, Aleksandra Jokovic, Sharon Gushue
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
A Sabbatical Journey of Discovery: The Liberation of Nursing
Mary Ferguson-Paré
HealthcarePapers
Applying a Prism: The Spectrum of a Sustainable Healthcare System
Catherine Zahn
World Health and Population
Strengthening Health Development at the Community Level in Thailand: What Events Should Be Managed?
Vasuton Tanvatanakul, Corália Vicente, João Amado and Sastri Saowakontha
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To see some photo archives click here. To see our video archives click here. Thank you for your support. We are now planning a new season starting in September ’07.
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.
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.
September 13 - 14, 2007: Edmonton, AB, Leaders in Rehabilitation: The Perfect Storm. In partnership, Capital Health, Calgary Health Region and the University of Alberta – Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Leaders in Rehabilitation Conference. Join us for an in-depth look at workforce sustainability, knowledge transfer, and consumer integration in decision making as it relates to the future face of healthcare in rehabilitation. This forum will bring together rehabilitation leaders from across all disciplines. For details click here.
October 15, 2007: Richmond Hill, ON. Supportive Housing: The Winning Formula for Supporting People and Sustaining the Health Care System. Presented by the Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community (CRNCC) and the Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA), this symposium focuses on the crucial role that supportive housing plays in maintaining the health, well-being, independence and quality of life of individuals. For details click here.
October 19, 2007: Toronto, ON. Enhancing Cognition in Older Adults: Connecting Research and Clinical Care. Get updated on recent advances in cognitive difficulties faced by older adults, as well as pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to treatment. The conference includes morning lectures led by internationally recognized leaders in cognitive and neural aging, and afternoon workshops led by scientists and scientist-clinicians focusing on specific issues related to cognitive rehabilitation of older adults. For details click here.
October 24, 2007: London, ON. LHSC Patient Safety Conference. The conference will be of interest to administrative leaders, professional practice leaders, frontline staff and physicians. Objectives include enhancing awareness of national strategies; learning about Patient WalkRoundsTM as a strategy to advance culture change; gaining insight from the family’s perspective; and championing safe patient care for every patient every day. For more information please email heni.dykstra@lhsc.on.ca.
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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Dr. Salim Yusuf to Vice President of Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Hamilton (ON) Health Sciences Centre. He will continue as Director of the Population Health Research Institute.
Paul Faguy to Executive Vice President of Clinical Support and Hospital Services, Hamilton (ON) Health Sciences Centre. This includes the porfolios of Human Resources and Laboratories and Volunteers Services.
Kathy Watts to Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Hamilton (ON) Health Sciences.
Mark Farrow to Assistant Vice President, ICT, Hamilton (ON) Health Sciences
Dr. Robert Halpenny to Senior Medical Director, Interior Health BC
Dr. Andrew Larder to Senior Medical Health Officer, Interior Health BC
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