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Longwoods eLetter September 2, 2008

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• Health System Organization and Governance in Canada and Australia: A Comparison of Historical Developments, Recent Policy Changes and Future Implications.
• A Visit Down Under: Our Journey to Improve Canada's Healthcare System.
• Canada's Policy Dialogue with Australia: the set up. (PDF)
• Nurse Managers in Australia: Mentoring, Leadership and Career ...
• Private and public partnerships in Australia: Longwoods Online ... (PDF)

Update for the new Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion from Vivek Goel, President and CEO.

Here’s a 27 page definition of eHealth – originally proposed by a HIMSS special interest group. Does anyone have a more current definition? Send it to Ania Bogacka.

Another opportunity to shine. Civic leaders in Alberta’s Fort McMurray want to turn the town into the Dubai of Canada. Healthcare is on the agenda. Once again Alberta can demonstrate excellence.

Ontario LHINS Aging at Home Strategy provides the public with the context, guiding principles and goals, as well as funding, timelines and goals. To view it, click here (.PPT). To view the Qs and As, click here (.DOC).

Judges rule that the LHIN for Ajax Pickering Hospital acted within the law by not consulting the public before approving changes at the hospital. At about the same time the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care refused to interfere with a LHIN decision appealed by a hospital committee. It’s becoming a pattern as the LHINS “come into their own.”

Kingston General Hospital (under supervision) wants to contract out food services presumably to help cut the deficit. The Unions are calling for more appropriate funding instead and will produce a free concert with rock bands April Wine and Sab to get out the message. Gotta like their style.

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The Healthcare Omnibus: $199.00. Purchased individually the cost would be +$1100.00. This offers unfettered open electronic access to these journals and resources: Healthcare Quarterly; HealthcarePapers; Nursing Leadership (CJNL); Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé; Electronic Healthcare; World Health & Population; Law & Governance; Home and Community Care Digest, Special Issues (including the Patient Safety Papers and special publications on High Performance Organizations - cases; Transforming Healthcare Organizations to include CPOE; and Healthy Workplaces and all special publications now in the works); plus, continued access to Longwoods TV learning channel; Healthcare Case Study Library; Longwoods Radio Podcast; Longwoods Online; Publisher's Profiles; White Papers; HR Resources. And if you are employed by a public sector organization [including hospitals] this subscription is your ticket to all sessions of Breakfast with the Chiefs. Simply click here: OMINBUS: get it all. And subscribe. This offer expires September 15, 2008.

The small print: This offer is made exclusively to individuals and is restricted to single users and made possible by educational grants from Baxter, IBM, Roche, Accenture, HPCanada, Philips, 3M, Agfa, Borden Ladner Gervais, CGI, MccKesson Canada, and Ray & Berndtson. Please allow 2 business days for online access to be set up. No credit will be provided for existing subscriptions. This offer is available until 6 pm, September 15, 2008. Any use of this subscription by more than one individual – as considered solely by electronic monitoring by Longwoods Publishing - will be discontinued without credit or notice.

RECRUITERS
Note to recruiters. Use an old fashioned way to recruit achievers – a bulletin board at HealthAchieve. Download PDF

OHA Small, Rural and Northern Award of Excellence
The Ontario Hospital Association is pleased to present its Small, Rural and Northern Award of Excellence. This award recognizes innovation and excellence in the delivery of patient care within a small, rural and/or northern hospital. For further information, go to www.srnhospitals.com
or contact Deborah Cumming at dcumming@oha.com.

Send your news and innovations to news@longwoods.com. (Let your communications VP know.)

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1. The Health Care Governance Forum September 16, 2008. A two day forum that includes reserved box seats at the Blue Jay game. The more important Issues: CEO Pay for Performance; Physician Relationships; Community Engagement; Working in a LHIN Environment; Board and Committee Evaluation; Quality and Patient Safety. Details + Register here. (PDF).
   
   
2. Across LHIN borders [half day HealthcareRounds]: placing our patients ahead of postal codes: Featuring: Dr. Barry McLellan, President & CEO, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Terry Sullivan, President & CEO, Cancer Care Ontario; Sarah Kramer, Vice President & CIO, Cancer Care Ontario; Cathy Szabo, Executive Director, Central Community Care Access Centre, Diane Salois-Swallow, Joint CIO & eHealth Lead, York Central Hospital and Southlake Regional Health Centre and Central LHIN, Dr. Sandra Black , Brill Chair in Neurology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Lydia Lee, CIO, The SIMS Partnership & eHealth Lead, UHN & Toronto Central LHIN, Dr. Matthew Morgan, Partner, Courtyard Group, Susan Van de Velde-Coke, Executive Vice President, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Think of the issues. Patients will assume access anywhere. Who is responsible, accountable and capable? Questions that need answers in strategic plans and programs.) Enabled by our corporate and institutional collaborators. Details here . . . registration limited to the first 100 – a Healthcare Rounds – an educational program from Sunnybrook HSC & Longwoods Publishing.
   
   
3. Breakfast with the Chiefs with Dr. Alan Hudson: September 16, 2008 | Toronto. See registration requirements below. Breakfast with the Chiefs is enabled by educational grants from: Accenture, CGI, McKesson, HP Canada, Philips and the support of the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations, Ontario Hospital Association, Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario, HPME (University of Toronto).
   Download PDF to see who is registered
   Read this report. “Governance and the Added Value of Regionalization”
   Register here only if you are not yet registered. [note qualifications below]
   
   Breakfast with the Chiefs: registration requirements:
   Do you work at an academic or public sector organization? You must hold one personal subscription for at least one Longwoods journal. This covers attendance for the full season. This year’s speakers include: Dr. Alan Hudson, Matthew Anderson, Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, and Dr. Ross Baker on high performance organizations. Dr. Vivek Goel, Dr. Michael Guerriere, Ida Goudreau, Cliff Nordal and Murray Martin. If you are not a subscriber click here first. If you are a subscriber register here.
   
   Members from private sector organizations must be registered members of the HealthcareBoard. If you are not sure of your status, please register here. We will contact you to confirm membership or provide you further details.

SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
Les troubles mentaux et du comportement sont la raison principale pour laquelle les itinérants visitent les services d’urgence.

Healthcare Quarterly
Frequency, Determinants and Impact of Overcrowding in Emergency Departments in Canada: A National Survey
Kenneth Bond, Maria B. Ospina, Sandra Blitz, Marc Afilalo, Sam G. Campbell, Michael Bullard, Grant Innes, Brian Holroyd, Gil Curry, Michael Schull and Brian H. Rowe

HealthcarePapers
Enhancing Quality Improvement
Carolyn M. Clancy

Nursing Leadership
Nurses' Career Commitment and Job Performance: Differences across Hospitals
Majd T. Mrayyan, Ibrahim Al-Faouri

Healthcare Policy
Emergency Department and Walk-in Clinic Use in Models of Primary Care Practice with Different After-Hours Accessibility in Ontario
Michelle Howard, James Goertzen, Janusz Kaczorowski, Brian Hutchison, Kelly Morris, Lehana Thabane, Mitch Levine and Alexandra Papaioannou

Electronic Healthcare
Performance Indicators for Information Technology Services at Four Community Hospitals
Pegi Rappaport, Gerry Dimnik, Rodney Burns and Jamie Bowie

World Health and Population
Modes of Delivery and Delivery Assistance in Rural Bangladesh
Ataharul Islam and Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury

The Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research: Knowledge Translation with Indigenous Communities
Brenda Elias and John O'Neil

Knowledge translation at the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research emerged through several population health research initiatives conducted in partnership with Canadian Indigenous peoples.

Listen Here. Running time: 11:06 minutes
Read it 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 Lina Lopez at LLopez@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance of course.

2008/2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Toronto - Limited Seating
Dr. Alan Hudson, Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Topic: Improving Access - the Governance Challenges
Location: Imperial Room at The Fairmount Royal York, 100 Front Street West, Toronto
Sponsors:  ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP Canada, HPME - University of Toronto, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Register here

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 – Toronto
Matt Anderson, CEO - Toronto Central LHIN
Topic: A View from a LHIN.
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Cerner, CGI, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Register here

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 – Toronto
Vivek Goel
Vivek Goel is President and CEO of the Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Topic: Renewing Public Health in Ontario: The Role of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Toronto
Murray T. Martin, President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
Cliff Nordal, President and CEO, London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON
Topic: Let's settle the private/public hospital debate: A Conversation reflecting on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Ontario Hospital Association

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - Toronto
Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group
Topic: 2009 Review of IM/IT in Healthcare: The Unvarnished Version
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Courtyard Group, Ontario Hospital Association

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - Vancouver
Murray T. Martin, President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
Cliff Nordal, President and CEO, London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON
Topic: Let's settle the private/public hospital debate: A Conversation reflecting on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Vancouver,UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, Campus Level, HSBC Hall, C680
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Ontario Hospital Association

Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs (dates TBD) Ida Goodreau, President and CEO for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division.

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

Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Matthew Anderson - then Vice-President, Chief Information Officer, UHN and Toronto Community Care Access Centre.
IT Collaboration Report (PDF).
Sponsors: Accenture, ACAHO, Dell Canada, Lanier Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems, Roche, and TELUS

The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts.  If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale or Matthew Hart for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez for more information.

To see the photo archives click here. To see our video archives click here.

He’s a player, she gets played [Download PDF for details]
Young people of all genders and sexualities are sexually active; the average age that Canadians first have sex is 17. So why is it when a girl is sexually active, she can be considered to be easy, but when a guy is sexually active he can be called a stud? How do these gendered stereotypes affect young people’s physical, emotional and sexual health? How do they intersect with race, class, and oppression? In what ways do these stereotypes influence how parents, teachers, researchers and health care providers talk and think about youth sexual health? Join CIHR Cafe Scientifique on September 16, 2008 as they challenge these stereotypes in a lively discussion with experts in the field of youth sexual health.

With its theme, Inspiring Ideas and Innovation, HealthAchieve2008 is Canada’s largest health care show, attracting thousands of hospital leaders and health care professionals from across the country. This year, HealthAchieve will be held November 3, 4 & 5 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Featuring keynote addresses from the Rt. Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Uwe Reinhardt and Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthAchieve2008 promises to be a truly inspiring event! For further information, visit www.healthachieve.com.

September 17-20, 2008: Toronto, ON. 5th International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference Leadership in Advanced Nursing Practice: Maximizing Health, Celebrating Collaboration and Promoting Innovation. Presented jointly by the Canadian Association of Advanced Practice Nurses (CAAPN) and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). This conference will inspire advanced practice nurses around the globe to learn new ways to handle challenges, and will provide an exciting opportunity to network with clinicians, administrators, policy-makers, educators, researchers, students, and interdisciplinary colleagues. Topics include Nurse Practitioner Roles in Anesthesiology and Models of APN role evaluation. International Speakers include Ann Hamric, Dorothy Brooten and Stephen Lewis. For details click here.

September 20, 2008: Toronto, ON. Network with industry leaders, while supporting a great cause at The Imagination Ball. Saint Elizabeth Health Care’s phenomenal fundraising Gala featuring: President and CEO Shirlee Sharkey, Honorary Chair Shirley Douglas, CTV’s own Ken Shaw, Presenting Sponsor TELUS, and many more. You’ll be in good company at the Imagination Ball! Saturday, September 20, 2008 at Toronto’s The Carlu. For tickets click here.

September 26-27, 2008: Toronto, ON. Health Human Resources Migration International Policy Symposium. Co-sponsored by the University of Toronto, The Connaught Committee and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Demetrios Papademetriou, President, The Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC. For further details and registration information click here.

September 29, 2008: Vancouver, BC. Health Human Resources in Nursing: The Research and the Reality. Join Dr. Linda O’Brien-Pallas, at this Research Symposium to explore The Gap between the Research and the Reality in HHR Planning, find out the latest on the Nursing Research Fund and examine Western Canada’s recruitment initiatives. For more information go to www.confmail.com and select “Chair Research Symposium”.

October 17, 2008: Toronto, ON. 8th Annual Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit (KLARU) Conference “Connecting Research and Clinical Care: Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Settings”. Attendees will be updated on recent advances of safety improvements as well as practical applications for long-term care providers to take back to their organizations to implement best practices. For more information, click here.

October 19-21, 2008: Vancouver BC. Innovation in HealthCare: Passion to Progress. Leaders from all areas of health care and related industries will attend this two-day conference focusing on leadership, systems change and sustainable outcomes. Confirmed to speak are, Hon.George Abbott, Dr. Richard Heinzl, Roger Martin, Tod Maffin, Stan Davis, Jeremy Gutsche and Rex Murphy. For more information, click here.

November 18-19, 2008: Toronto, ON. COACH Fall Forum, The Legacy Issue: Managing Transition and Reducing Risk on the EHR Journey. Explore the technical and human risks and challenges facing healthcare organizations as they transition from legacy systems at this COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association event. Take home best practices, case study ideas and practical tools. Learn from speakers who have been there at the interactive sessions. For details, click here.

November 27-29, 2008: Toronto, ON. Family Medicine Forum. Canada’s largest family medicine conference. Co-hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) and the CFPC’s Sections of Teachers and Researchers. For conference program and registration click here.

February 19-22, 2009: Victoria, BC. Revolutionizing Healthcare with Informatics: From Research to Practice. Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare in Canada and internationally. In order to achieve this potential there will need to be a stronger bridge between research and practice in order to solve complex healthcare problems using technology and to develop best practices based on proven results. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 30, 2008. 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]

[Don’t forget, we don’t make these up. Please send your promotions, appointments, retirements and other transitions to publisher@longwoods.com.] 

Review all recently reported Transitions here.

Note to recruiters.
Use an old fashioned way to recruit achievers – a bulletin board at HealthAchieve + some e-technology like: the web, email blasts and a blog. For details Download PDF

Today's Jobs
Project Lead, Health Indicators - CIHI, Toronto, ON
Vice-President, Medical & Academic Affairs - York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill, ON
Senior Policy Adviser - Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Toronto, ON
Coordinator, Critical Care Trauma Centre - Victoria Hospital, LHSC, London, ON
Manager, Drug Reviews, CDR - Ottawa, ON
Vice-President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer - Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, ON
Vice-President, Clinical Programs - Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, ON
Director, Quality and Risk Management - Providence Care, Kingston, ON
Director, Information Management - Providence Care, Kingston, ON
Senior Planning, Integration, & Community Engagement Consultant - Central West LHIN, Brampton, ON
Chief Executive Officer, Arnprior & District Memorial Hospital Foundation, Arnproir, ON
Director, Quality & Risk, VON Canada, Western Region
Infinite Possibilities - Bloorview Kids Rehab,Toronto, ON
GlaxoSmithKline Chair in Health Policy - Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Director, Community Engagement and Communications - Toronto Central LHIN
Director, Program Development - Toronto Central LHIN
Financial Analyst - Toronto Central LHIN
Marketing Manager, Healthcare - RIM, Waterloo, ON
Doctors Without Borders - Medical and Non-Medical Volunteers
Student Nurse Burseries - Northwest Territories Health and Social Services
Nursing & Leadership Opportunities with the Provincial Health Services Authority of BC
Career Opportunities at Courtyard Group
Career Opportunities at Strata Health
Career Opportunities at London Health Sciences
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Hamilton Health Sciences
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Vancouver Coastal Health
Career Opportunities at Vancouver Island Health Authority
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Career Opportunities at CIHI

Visit our portal of more than 60 participating healthcare recruitment centres.
[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com]

Recognizing Excellence in Informatics and eHealth:

CHITTA Nominations will close September 15, 2008. Check out the details
Company of the Year 2008. (PDF)
Corporate Citizenship Award 2008. (PDF)
Project Team of the Year Award 2008. (PDF)
Transformation Award 2008. (PDF)
Nomination Forms

COACH Nominations will close September 15, 2008. Check out the details.
Leadership in the Field of Health Informatics
Innovation in the Adoption of Health Informatics
Community-Based Physician Leader/Innovator
Emerging Leader
President's Award
Steven Huesing Scholarship
Nomination Forms

To register for the grand black tie affair on November 19, 2008 visit this page.

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