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Healthcare Quarterly
Opinion: Helping Canadians Understand the Opportunities for Health Research
Patrick Rafferty
HealthcarePapers
Guaranteeing Accountability for Quality Care
Penny Ballem
Nursing Leadership
Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC): Integrating Patient Outcome Information into Nursing Undergraduate Curricula
Carole Orchard, Cheryl Reid-Haughian, Rick Vanderlee
Healthcare Policy
Plastic Brains
Robert G. Evans
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
Maternal Chronic Ill Health Negatively Affects Child Survival in a Poor Rural Population of Pakistan
R. Nuruddin, L. Meng Kin, W.C. Hadden, I. Azam
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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.
September 10-11, 2007: London, ON Culture & Diversity Conference. Topics include "Celebrating Cultural diversity as a core value that influences organizational culture", "The Impact of Internationally Educated Nurses" and "Developing cultural competence in the hospital setting." Day 2 - RNAO Centre for Excellence will present the RNAO BPG Embracing Cultural diversity in the workplace will provide an opportunity to generate initiatives and strategies. For more information contact Debra McAuslan
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 1-3, 2007: Toronto, ON. CNIA 2007 Conference - Informatics Everywhere: Celebrating the Diversity of Informatics Practice. Join us for this opportunity to learn and discuss the multitude of ways nursing and health informatics is being used to support and transform health care delivery. For details click here.
October 1-3, 2007: Edmonton, AB. RTNA 2007 Conference: Knowledge Transfer: Raising the Stakes for System Change. The vision of the Health Research Transfer Network of Alberta (RTNA) is a health system where research or knowledge transfer (KT) is understood, valued, and optimized, where all stakeholders are supported and encouraged to express their will and desire to incorporate evidence into policy and practice decisions. For details click here.
October 14-16, 2007: Vancouver, BC. HCLABC Fall Conference 2007 Aim For the Extraordinary: Inspired Action for Better Health Care. Leaders from all areas of health care and related industries are invited to attend this two-day meeting which will focus on leadership issues, skills and outcomes. For more 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 22 - 25. 2007: Vienna, Austria. The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition. Join Richard Granger (Director-General of IT, NHS, England) and Richard Alvarez (President & CEO, Canada Health Infoway), Dr Hussein A. Gezairy (WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region) and Robert M. Kolodner (National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services, USA). 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.
October 30, 2007: Ottawa, ON. Consumer Health Informatics Conference. This conference focuses on the technical, social, ethical and professional issues arising from consumer empowerment using information technology. For details click here.
November 12-14, 2007: Hamburg, Germany. BIO-Europe 2007. Understand the signs, symptoms and opportunities of the much-anticipated convergence of biotech and Big Pharma. Fundamental questions, such as how can biotechnology companies help the pharmaceutical industry meet double digit growth expectations by contributing new products and processes, will be openly discussed and debated by some of the most notable names in the industry. For details click here.
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