Longwoods eLetter September 06, 2005
"School. Drive Carefully" on street
signs everywhere. Pay attention!
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SPECIAL ISSUE
Healthcare
Quarterly. All about patient safety. A special and fifth issue. Coming in October.
Get on the list to receive this. What is the Blueprint for Patient Safety at Sick
Kids? How does a region
develop a comprehensive patient safety strategy? What
omissions and inconsistencies will you find during medication reconciliation?
What difference does an inquest make? What are the
legal issues? Who is accountable? How do you
measure patient safety culture? Disclosure? What
CPOE can teach you . . . and 12 more important analyses and cases. Edited
by Dr. Ross Baker. Will be issued in October. Take a sneak peak now by clicking
here: Patient Safety – a Special issue. Get on the Healthcare Quarterly list here.
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SPECIAL REPORT I
Avian Flu Pandemic will
do more than kill people. . . a pandemic, even one meaningfully less virulent than the 1918
Influenza breakout, would have hugely disruptive effects. Depending on its
length and severity, its economic impact could be comparable, at least for a
short time, to the Great Depression of the 1930s. A detailed analysis from the
Bank of Montreal’s BMO Nesbitt Burns Research. Made available here with
their kind permission and without charge. Go to Longwoods Online. See
the top of the page.
SPECIAL REPORT II
Mental Health and the Workplace:
Towards a Research Agenda in Canada: Publishers choice. The complete issue pro bono. Click here
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ELECTRONIC
HEALTHCARE
As
clinician awareness of the benefits of using computers (as a tool to reduce
medical errors) increases, more physician offices are looking at an
e-Prescribing/Ambulatory EMR strategy. The purpose of this study (March 2005) was
twofold: (1) to assess market perception of the e- Prescribing/Ambulatory EMR
products offered as identified by survey participants and (2) to identify key
decision factors used by survey participants when choosing an
e-Prescribing/Ambulatory EMR vendor. Click
here
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NURSING LEADERSHIP
Calling All Leaders. Mary Ellen Jeans.
Collective leadership in times of crisis can offer an array of solutions that,
if implemented cohesively, can make a significant difference. Publisher’s choice. The
complete issue pro bono Click here.
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PROFILE
Vancouver Coastal - Contracting for Surgery
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HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Full-Time or Part-Time Work in Nursing:
Preferences, Tradeoffs and Choices
Jennifer Blythe, Andrea Baumann, Isik Zeytinoglu, Margaret Denton and Ann Higgins. Click
here.
Health,
Healthcare and Nation-Building: A Three-Dimensional Approach to Innovation in Canada. Glenn G. Brimacombe. Publisher’s choice. The complete issue pro bono. Click here: Healthcare
Quarterly. (Follow the link and download the pdf of this paper for additional
commentary.)
From
our Archives.
Towards
the Virtual Hospital: An Ecological Approach to Network Development in Health
Services
While the last decade held much rhetoric and debate on the issue of healthcare
reform across Canada, little actually resulted in substantive innovations at
the integrated service delivery level. Preoccupation with governance and
management structural changes, mergers (not always for the better) a...
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FROM eHEALTHRECORD.INFO
Royal Ottawa
Hospital Plans Wireless Mesh Network | Fraser Health Rolls Out Unified
Messaging, Voice Apps | IBM Buys PureEdge for XML Electronic Forms Expertise | Calgary's
e-Health Glitch: What Went Wrong
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A new breast cancer
screening program developed by St. Michael’s Hospital and an inner-city
drop-in centre has increased mammography rates by more than six times.[More]
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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
Breakfast with the Chiefs.
September 13. Dr. Alan Hudson, Leading Ontario’s Access to
Service and Wait Times initiatives. Former CEO of University Health Network and
of Cancer Care Ontario.
September 26. Dr. David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer, Public
Health Agency of Canada
October 19. Dr. Robert Bell, CEO, the University Health Network
November 15. Graham Scott, Chair + Glenda Yeates, CEO, Canadian
Institute for Health Information
November 22. The Honourable George Smitherman, Minister of Health and
Long-term Care, Ontario
December 01. Dr. Graham Sher, CEO, Canadian Blood Services
December 15. Philip Hassen, CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute
MORE . . .
September 14. First National CNIA conference. Nurses & Informatics:
Transforming Healthcare. http://www.cnia.ca/CFP.html
September 18. The CAHSPR Conference (register with pcharbonneau@cahspr.ca)
in Montreal just prior to the International Conference on the Scientific Basis
of Health Services (ICSBHS) and following the University of
Montreal’s Jean-Yves-Rivard Conference.
October
31, 2005. HealthAchieve. Canada’s international healthcare show. See: http://www.healthachieve.com. Canada’s largest and most acclaimed show for policy makers, providers, suppliers and the
professions.
November 04, 2005. HealthcareRounds. Julie Morath, M.S., R.N., COO at Children's Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis/ St. Paul, has
scheduled her presentation ‘Managing Safety – A Dialogue’ from 2 to 4
pm. at the Rotman School of Management. Sponsored by Rotman Centre for Health
Sector Strategy. Contact: llopez@longwoods.com.
[Under Julie Morath’s leadership, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics
became the first recipient of the patient safety award by the National Patient
Safety Foundation for its work on establishing a culture of patient safety.]
November
11-12, 2005. Healthcare Summit: Legal, Economic and Medical Issues. Vancouver . National conference designed to help Canadian governments (federal and
provincial), administrators, clinicians and academics develop a practical
blueprint for beneficial reform and recommend changes that conform to the
guidelines of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. See: http://www.cimca.ca.
“Yet another pivotal moment in Canadian history is shaping up to take place at
the venerable Hotel Vancouver this fall.” Matt Borsellino, The Medical Post.
NOTE 1: For all breakfasts register
with Lina Lopez at llopez@longwoods.com.
You will get a confirmation in return.
NOTE 2: We will list all quality conferences
and events that relate to research, policy and best practices for leaders in research,
education, management, practice and policy in healthcare. Send the details to: eLetter@longwoods.com
NOTE 3: To attend any or all of our
Breakfasts with the Chiefs your must be an individual subscriber to any one of
our journals. Commercial organizations have special membership privileges and
should contact Lina for more information.
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TRANSITIONS
Anne-Marie Malek to Acting President and Chief Executive
Officer of West Park Healthcare Centre.
Dr. Matt Gysler to Chief of Medical Staff at The Credit Valley Hospital
(his team delivers over 4,800 babies annually)
Stephen DeFalco to MDS Inc. as President, Chief Executive Officer and
Director
Murray Wigmore to GE Healthcare as General Manager, Clinical Systems
Bruce Richmond [a vice-chair of Deloitte & Touche LLP] to chair of
the Board of Trustees of The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids)
Courtyard Group adds new office in London, England
David Ulis to lead Courtyard UK operations
[Send your transitions to eletter@longwoods.com]
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CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS
LAST CALL: Ted Freedman Award recognizes those individuals or organizations that inspire,
advocate and enable education in health, health services and health management.
Sponsored by Compass
Group Canada. Deadline is Tuesday, September 13, 2005. For
submission guidelines (click here)
3. Therapeutic Clown Award: The Longwoods HealthcareBoard in
collaboration with the Therapeutic Clown Program at Sick Kids would like to
recognize therapeutic clown practitioners for what they really are. Deadline is
Tuesday, September 13 2005. Sponsored by the HealthcareBoard. For submission
guidelines (Click here)
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NOTEWORTHY
Lakeridge
Health's HIV Clinic and Pharmacy.ca are
going on a health care mission to Zimbabwe, a sub-Saharan country with the
second highest percentage of HIV in the world. Lakeridge Health's positive Care
Clinic, specializing in HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, will send a physician, social
worker, pharmacist from Pharmacy.ca and two nurses to assist local nurses and
health care professionals to successfully launch drug therapy and follow-up
care. For more information about the HIV clinic contact Tobin Brown at
Lakeridge or for HIV drug counselling contact Dipen
Kalaria at Pharmacy.ca
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LEADERSHIPCAREERS
ADM,
Clinical Innovation & Integration and Chief Nurse Executive - BC Ministry
of Health
[the most influential nursing leadership role in Canada]
Field Research Associates - Institute for Work & Health
Chief Scientist - Institute for Work & Health
Postdoctoral Fellowships, Cardiac Nursing Research - Faculty of Nursing,
University of Alberta
Customer Relationship Managers & Implementation Support team members -
Consulting Cadre
Change Specialist - Providence Health Care
Vice President, Human Resources & Support Services - Humber River Regional
Hospital
Senior Consultant, Patient Flow Improvement - Vancouver Coastal Health
Senior Program Officer, Research Use - CHSRF
Agent principal ou Agente principale de programme, Utilisation de la recherche
- FCRSS
The Mazankowski
Alberta Heart Institute - Edmonton, Alberta
Challenging Opportunities - The Canadian Institute for Health Information
(CIHI)
New Graduate Nurse Internship Program-St. Michael's Hospital
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Career Opportunities at Hamilton Health Sciences
Healthcare Quarterly Careers (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)
[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com]
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