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Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and the British Columbia (B.C.) Government, in full collaboration with the other provincial and territorial governments and the Public Health Agency of Canada, will develop a pan-Canadian Public Health Surveillance System to help carry out faster, more coordinated responses to potential epidemics. More

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Canadian Standards Association (CSA) unveils Canada's first consensus-based occupational health and safety (OHS) management standard. Canada currently ranks among the worst of the developed nations in occupational health and safety*, with an average of almost three people a day dying as a result of workplace injuries and diseases.

Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Waiting Lists and Nursing
Joann M. Trypuc and Alan R. Hudson

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. The approach questioned the prevailing thought that the home is always the most appropriate and least costly location to provide services to clients traditionally served by homecare.

Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio read this . . .
This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using story telling, 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 Rebecca Hart at Rhart@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance of course.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006. Toronto. Dr. Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), University of Toronto and guest editor of the Healthcare Quarterly on Patient Safety
Topic: Patient Safety.Recommended reading, click here
Location: Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Room 106
Sponsors: 3M Healthcare, Accenture, Healthtech, HP, Microsoft Canada, Philips Medical Systems, and TELUS

Thursday, October 05, 2006 – Toronto. Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Topic: Ontario - Leading the Way in Health Information Privacy
Location: Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Room 610
Sponsors: Accenture, Cerner, Healthtech, HP and TELUS

Tuesday,October 17, 2006. – Toronto. Dr. Andreas Laupacis, President & CEO, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
Topic: Initial Experience with the Common Drug Review.
Location: Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Room 106
Sponsors: Accenture, 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 for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.

September 29, 2006: Toronto. Quality Healthcare Network presents: A Patient-Centred Health System: Scripting for Improvement
The deadline for the Call for Presentations is September 5, 2006. For details click here.

October 13–14, 2006: Edmonton. Making Clinical Decisions for Managing Cognitive-Communication Disorders After Traumatic Brain Injury. This two-day course will provide speech-language pathologists with evidence on which to base clinical decisions for cognitive-communication disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI). For details click here.

October 16-17, 2006: Toronto. The PHIPA Summit 2006. Longwoods is an official media partner. Join the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Saskatchewan, the Canadian Medical Association, the Ministry of Health, Health Canada and many others at Ontario's premier and most reasonably priced Health IM & Privacy conference! For details click here or call 1-866.814.8317

November 3, 2006: London. The Royal College of General Practitioners (NHS) brings you E-Learning In Medical Education: Savings For The NHS. For details and registration go here.

November 6-8, 2006: Prince George. Research Use Week (Northwest): Tools, strategies, and stories of using evidence in rural and remote health services delivery and policy development. The goal is to encourage and improve evidence-based decision-making in health system policy and management. For details click here.

November 6-8, 2006: Toronto. OHA HealthAchieve2006 - register online today and take advantage of the Early Bird Prices Available to September 16, 2006. For details click here.

November 16-18, 2006: Ontario College of Family Physicians 44th Annual Scientific Assembly. The Premier Family Medicine Conference in Ontario. Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel. Click here for details.

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.

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Longwoods eLetter September 12, 2006