Longwoods eLetter September 1, 2009
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“Counterintuitive as this may sound, we already know how to design, operate, and deliver — to all Americans — quality health care the nation can afford. We already have the tools to solve the problem.” Group Health CEO Scott Armstrong. See the annual report: We Americans have chosen to leave 47 million of our citizens . . . (PDF)
Steven Lewis & Canadian Doctors for Medicare respond: “The Americans just don’t get it.” Universal Healthcare Message to Americans from Canadian Doctors & Healthcare Experts (short video already seen by +40,000 viewers).
Who Will Be My Friends? Neil Seeman
With the emergence of the mega-social networking site Facebook, it seems everyone's "friends" with everyone else these days. A fascinating paper by Dr. Sachin H. Jain in the New England Journal of Medicine asks: Is it professionally acceptable for...
CURRENT NEWS from HealthEdition.
Top ten read papers from our journals for August 2009 (240,100 total visits)
From KLAS
Meaningful Use Pushes Physician Adoption to the Top of Community Hospital IT Requirements
When LHINs flex their muscles
20 Aug 2009 ... Recovery Plan, in its entirety (PDF), as submitted by Cambridge Memorial Hospital... but Ontario Announces Intent to Appoint Supervisor at Cambridge Memorial...
Breakfast with André. Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - Toronto. ON, Award-Winning Journalist, André Picard of The Globe and Mail. University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto. Register.
Sponsored by: ACAHO, Accenture, HPME, and IBM.
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.
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Healthcare Quarterly
Balancing Institutional and Community-Based Care: Why Some Older Persons Can Age Successfully at Home While Others Require Residential Long-Term Care
A. Paul Williams, David Challis, Raisa Deber, Jillian Watkins, Kerry Kuluski, Janet M. Lum and Stacey Daub
HealthcarePapers
Home Care, Continuing Care and Medicare: A Canadian Model or Innovative Models for Canadians?
François Béland and Howard Bergman
Nursing Leadership
Reconnecting to Care: A Nursing Initiative at the Baycrest Geriatric Health System
Sholom Glouberman, Joy Richards, Marilyn El Bestawi, Rhonda Seidman-Carlson, Lorne Teperman
Healthcare Policy
Three Policy Issues in Deciding the Cost of Nursing Home Care: Provincial Differences and How They Influence Elderly Couples' Experiences
Robin L. Stadnyk
Electronic Healthcare
An Aging Population: Challenges to the Electronic Health Record Development and Health Informatics Community
Mariana Catz, Anthony Bernardo, Jacqui Phillips and Irene Podolak
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:
Collaborative Partnerships: Managing Increased Healthcare Demand without Increasing Overall System Capacity
Paul Masotti, Eleanor Rivoire, Wendy Rowe, Marnie Dahl and Eleanor Plain
Collaborative partnerships can help improve integration and quality in local healthcare systems. We describe an innovative approach that was implemented following the formation of a tri-provider partnership between homecare and two acute care hospitals.
Running time: 18:44 minutes
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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 IBM
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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, IBM, and Roche
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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. Details.
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. Details.
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. Details.
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 healthcare leaders can take to enhance the value and sustainability of Ontario's healthcare system and more. Details.
October 21–22, 2009: Halifax, NS. E-HEALTH Forum. This event provides a uniquely Atlantic forum for networking and discussion on shared issues, solutions and strategies to address the challenges encountered as implementation and utilization moves forward. Details.
October 26–27, 2009: Calgary, AB. 9th Edition E-HEALTH Forum: Is the promise of e-health being delivered? This conference will focus squarely on the latest developments around the use and application of e-health systems to drive improvements in healthcare quality and the implementation of a more efficient and streamlined approach to care delivery. Details.
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. Details.
November 24-25, 2009: Boucherville, QC. Medical Laboratory Management. Improving Patient Safety through effective Leadership. Laboratory professionals must be leaders in ensuring patient safety within the laboratory environment. This leadership begins with developing a culture centered on patient safety and quality management within the laboratory. Join us for this two day forum and gain a better understanding of the critical components of a good laboratory management program. Details.
November 26-28, 2009: Toronto, ON. 47th Annual Scientific Assembly presented by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, this event that gathers close to 1000 delegates including family physicians, residents, medical students, family practice nurses and other healthcare professionals from all over the province. The CPD program is designed "By Doctors - For Doctors" and includes current clinical topics, updates on previous popular topics and emerging clinic issues. Details.
Helen Antoniou to Associate Director General, Public Affairs and Strategic Planning, the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).
Dr. Scott Halperin to head up the PHAC/CIHR Influenza Research Network (PCIRN).
Tom Cantle goes home after getting a touch of the publishing virus in a foreign land (PDF)
Review all recently reported Transitions.
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