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Longwoods eLetter September 15, 2009

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“Despite the recession, there is a doctor shortage, and every other province is recruiting. New Brunswick, the land of contract-reneging, is now a prime hunting ground for recruiters.” André Picard's Second Opinion leaves no doubt where he stands.

Pay for Performance: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place? By Steven Lewis
It sounds like such a good idea: don't pay people to show up and scurry about, pay them for proven performance. It's the new Big Thing in health care financing. As usual, the Brits have pursued it most vigorously. From April 2009

ANNOUNCING ...
The Global Accelerator Award.
Winners are organizations or people who have helped put into action an idea that holds the promise of dramatically improving patient care anywhere in the world. The Accelerator Award is based on an Innovation Cell methodology that analyzes which organizations or people in healthcare have put an idea into action that has generated significant positive “buzz” or “chatter” on the World Wide Web. The Global Accelerator Award is powered by the Health Strategy Innovation Cell based at Massey College at the University of Toronto. The Innovation Cell specializes in making sense of online patient conversations around the world.

Knowledge Translation and Transfer. In teaching ... learn more to help you mentor, teach, tutor, coach and educate
In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest ...

The ‘Big 3’ continue to enjoy provider loyalty. But other vendors and new innovations are shaking up the imaging market

MUST READ
Advanced Technologies to Curb Healthcare-Associated Infections
Veronique M. Boscart, Susan Gorski, Pamela J. Holliday, Graham Hufton, Alexander I. Levchenko, César Marquez-Chin, Katherine McGilton, Kaveh Momen, Mike Tsang and Geoff R. Fernie
Standardization as a Key to Quality
Kevin Smith

NEWSBITS
Health Council of Canada Health Innovation Award Launched
The Fraser Institute: Time to Abolish Costly Regulation of Natural Health Products and Professional Licensing
Alberta Scientist Wins Top Innovation Award
SCI Group and 3SO Announce Outsourcing Partnership to Deliver Regionalized Supply Chain Services
Brenda Milner Wins International Balzan Prize
Canada to Participate in Largest International Registry in Coronary Artery Disease Patients

From Health Edition: summary analysis

1. Health transfers to be protected in deficit fight
2. First integrated network clinic opens in Montreal
3. Calgary private clinic to expand
4. NB prepares for court battle over physician contract
5. NB to pilot self-directed home support services
6. Manitoba investing $47 million in pandemic plan
7. Alberta pharmacists want to be able to order lab tests
8. Ontario RNs doing colon cancer test
9. NB midwifery delays
10. Ont. government turns down eHealth probe
11. Crime outweighs health care as concern for city residents
12. Health Council offers Health Innovation Award to students
13. Supervisor named for troubled Ontario hospital
14. Manitoba expanding FASD services
15. Cuts to services at Vancouver Island Health Authority - editorial and rebuttal
16. Severance agreements in Alberta - editorial
17. Hansard Highlights from Newfoundland and Labrador

HealthCampToronto Sept. 16, 2009, will use the "unconference" format to create a safe place for contrarians, free thinkers, change agents and idea entrepreneurs. It is the first healthcamp in Canada, modeled after the globally renowned healthcamp movement begun in San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia. Healthcamp discussions are followed by thousands online (on Twitter) around the world. Venue: 120 Bloor at the IBM Centre for e-Business Innovation. Sponsored by the Health Strategy Innovation Cell, Longwoods Publishing and by IBM Canada. Tickets are just $25, including food and relentless idea provocation. If you want to challenge groupthink and revolutionize current health and healthcare systems through the power of your ideas register asap to secure a ticket.

The Impact of Diagnostic Imaging Investments on the Canadian Healthcare System (PDF)
Simon Hagens, David Kwan, Craig Savage and Mark Nenadovic
This article describes the value of, and benefits to, Canada's healthcare system that have resulted from Canada Health Infoway's investment in diagnostic imaging system projects across the country.

How Busy Are Private MRI Centres in Canada? (PDF)
Eduard Bercovici and Chaim M. Bell
Long waits for publicly funded magnetic resonance imaging services have spurred the opening of private MRI centres in Canada. Little is known about the number and utilization of these facilities.

Healthcare Quarterly
Private Health Insurance: An International Overview and Considerations for Canada
Irfan Dhalla

HealthcarePapers
Parallel Payers and Preferred Access: How Canada's Workers' Compensation Boards Expedite Care for Injured and Ill Workers
Jeremiah Hurley, Dianna Pasic, John N. Lavis, Anthony J. Culyer, Cameron Mustard, William Gnam

Nursing Leadership
A Cross-Country Check-Up in Healthcare
Susan Van De Velde-Coke

Healthcare Policy
The Iron Chancellor and the Fabian
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
Performance of Universal Health Insurance: Lessons from South Korea
Sangho Moon and Jaeun Shin

2009/2010 Line Up

Friday, October 2, 2009 - Toronto, ON
Dr. Vivek Goel, Dr. Michael Gardam, Dr. Natasha Crowcroft, Dr. Brian Schwartz and Dr. Jonathan Gubbay
Topic: Pandemic Preparedness
Location: Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto, MacLeod Auditorium, Room 2158, One King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, HPME, IBM, and Roche
Register.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - Toronto, ON
Joseph R. D'Cruz and Ida Goodreau
Joseph R. D'Cruz, Professor, Rotman School of Management, U of T, Ida Goodreau,CEO, LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services.
Topic: To Be Announced
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture and HPME
Register

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For sponsorship information, please contact Matthew Hart at 416-864-9667 x 113 or email at mhart@longwoods.com

The small print: Breakfast with the Chiefs registration requirements:
Do you work at a publicly funded organization? If so, you must hold a current personal subscription for at least one Longwoods journal. This covers attendance for the full season. If you are not a subscriber, go here first. If you are a subscriber, go to this page for information on upcoming dates.

Registrants from private sector organizations, foundations and associations must be registered members of the Longwoods HealthcareBoard. If you are not sure of your status and want more information please contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com.

September 16, 2009: The Canadian College of Health Service Executives National Office and the Northern and Southern Alberta Chapters are pleased to present: Dr. Stephen Duckett, President & CEO, Alberta Health Services, Canada's Biggest Healthcare Merger, Progress to Date, and Agenda for the Future. The Greater Toronto Chapter is hosting 1 videoconferencing site. Details.

October 5-6, 2009: Toronto, ON. HIROC and OSACH present: Transformational Leadership. This conference will deliver strategic and inspirational advice from dynamic Canadian leaders on how to build a Culture of Safety in Healthcare. Speakers to include: Major-General Lewis MacKenzie - “Lessons in Leadership” and Dr. Graham Lowe - How to make your organization’s culture the foundation of safety. Details.

October 5-7, 2009: Toronto, ON. The Canadian Healthcare Business Development Network Annual meeting. Please join 100+ healthcare business development leaders, CFOs and other healthcare executives in October 2009 in Toronto, for our annual conference, themed Rethinking the Business of Healthcare. We've got an exciting program this year, featuring some of the best ideas and innovative approaches in revenue generation that have hit bottom line in healthcare institutions. The lineup of speakers is excellent, with Executives from Cleveland Clinic, to GE Healthcare, to Deliotte's Centre for Health Solutions, plus much more. Hosted & organized this year by SickKids and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Details.

October 8, 2009: Toronto, ON. Human Resources Symposium 2009: Delivering on the Human Capital Value Proposition. Brought to you by the Ontario Hospital Association. Hear Dr. David Ulrich, Tom Closson, Anne- Marie Malek, and Dr. Edgardo Perez explain the most important actions that healthcare leaders can take to enhance the value and sustainability of Ontario's healthcare system and more. Details.

October 21–22, 2009: Halifax, NS. E-HEALTH Forum. This event provides a uniquely Atlantic forum for networking and discussion on shared issues, solutions and strategies to address the challenges encountered as implementation and utilization moves forward. Details.

October 26–27, 2009: Calgary, AB. 9th Edition E-HEALTH Forum: Is the promise of e-health being delivered?  This conference will focus squarely on the latest developments around the use and application of e-health systems to drive improvements in healthcare quality and the implementation of a more efficient and streamlined approach to care delivery. Details.

October 30, 2009: Toronto, ON. Baycrest presents the 9th Annual KLARU Conference - Aging at Home: Connecting Research and Clinical Care, at The Holiday Inn Yorkdale. Details.

November 24-25, 2009: Boucherville, QC. Medical Laboratory Management. Improving Patient Safety through effective Leadership. Laboratory professionals must be leaders in ensuring patient safety within the laboratory environment.  This leadership begins with developing a culture centered on patient safety and quality management within the laboratory. Join us for this two day forum and gain a better understanding of the critical components of a good laboratory management program. Details.

November 26-28, 2009: Toronto, ON. 47th Annual Scientific Assembly presented by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, this event that gathers close to 1000 delegates including family physicians, residents, medical students, family practice nurses and other healthcare professionals from all over the province. The CPD program is designed "By Doctors - For Doctors" and includes current clinical topics, updates on previous popular topics and emerging clinic issues. Details.

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Tanya Flanagan to Project Lead, Client Support and Stakeholder Engagement, Primary Health Care Information at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
Dr. Farrukh Khan to medical director of the adult diabetes program at Rough Valley Health System.
Mark Omoto to Biogen Idec as President and General Manager
Michael Cooper to the board of Cancer Care Ontario
Linda Haslam-Stroud acclaimed as President of the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA)
Stanley Yaren to president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association
Chantale Simard to Deputy Director General, CSSS de Portneuf

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