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Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System
This special issue brings together the proceedings of the symposium of the same name which showcased experiences in decentralizing decision-making as it pertains to equity and strategic purchasing. Topics include cost control, balancing equity, reform of health services, experiences from England and the VIHA, plus finding common ground between equity and performance.
Healthcare Quarterly
ICES Reports: MRI Services in Ontario: Is Evidence-Based Planning Currently Feasible?
Karey Iron, Andreas Laupacis, Paula McColgan and Raymond Przybysz
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Negotiating for Change. The Healthcare Manager as Catalyst for Evidence-Based Practice: Changing the Healthcare Environment and Sharing Experience
George P. Browman, Anne Snider and Peter Ellis
Nursing Leadership
Research: Evidence-based Nursing Practice: How to Get There from Here
Alba DiCenso
Healthcare Policy
Commentary: Whose Views Count in Evidence Synthesis? And When Do They Count?
Jonathan Lomas
Electronic Healthcare
A Collaborative Approach to Building Capacity in Health Informatics
Francis Lau
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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Montreal: Thursday, September 27, 2007
David Levine, President and CEO, Montreal Health and Social Service Agency, in conversation with Richard Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Health Infoway
Location: Saint-James' Club of Montreal, 1145, Ave. Union, Montréal (Québec), the Grand Salon
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, IBM and Microsoft
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Vancouver: Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Dave Garets, President and CEO of HIMSS Analytics in conversation with Ida Goodreau, President and CEO of Vancouver Coastal Health
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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 11–12, 2007: Banff, AB. Aggressively Improving Costs and Throughput Using Lean Six Sigma. Presented by the Canadian College of Health Service Executives and the American College of Healthcare Executives, this seminar will teach you how to develop and implement a tailored action plan to quickly reduce your costs and sustain those reductions while improving quality and reducing medical errors. 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 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 8-10, 2007. Banff, AB. Visions National Health Law Conference. The Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, has organized this semi-annual two day national health law conference. Against a legal backdrop, the focus of the conference will be the future of health care. 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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Jessica Hill to first Chief Executive Officer Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.
Rik Ganderton to President and Chief Executive Officer Rouge Valley Health System.
Dr. Andrew Padmos to CEO at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Ray LeBlanc to Vice President of Research & Academic Affairs, Capital Health, Halifax (NS)
Dr. Vassilios Papadopoulos to Director of Research, professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill, and Associate Executive Director for Research at the MUHC
Honourable James K. Bartleman, Ontario’s most recent Lieutenant Governor, to member of the Board of Trustees at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (ON)
Dr. Morris Barer to Acting Director, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Former Director Dr. Charlyn Black to continue on with the Centre in research capacity.
Dr. Bonita Porter to Chief Coroner for Ontario.
Glenn Thompson to Interim President, Mental Health Commission of Canada
Dr. John Service to Executive Director, Mental Health Commission of Canada
Phil Upshall to Advisor, Stakeholder Relations, Mental Health Commission of Canada
Dr. Howard Chodos to Director of the office of the Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada
Mental Health Commission of Canada head office to Calgary Alberta
Dr. Mark Tremblay to lead CHEO’s Childhood Obesity Research team. Ottawa (ON)
Kenneth Deane to facilitator at Bluewater Health in Sarnia, to implement recommendations prepared for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON)
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