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Longwoods eLetter September 23, 2008

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• Demonstrating the BlackBerry as a Clinical Communication Tool | UHN collaborated with Sunnybrook Health Sciences.
• From Cancer Care Ontario: The first cancer system measurement and evaluation tool of its kind in North America.
• Recruiters take note: up to 8,000 people will spot the recruiting bulletin board at HealthAchieve – November 2 and 3, 2008. They are bound to stop. Abruptly. They will stop to read the laundromat-inspired pin-up notes offering new career opportunities. To get your advertisement on this board contact Susan Hale . . . a Longwoods feature at the top of the escalator of innovation.
• Radiologist Use of and Perceived Need for Patient Data Access Click here + Informatics in Radiology (infoRAD): Survey of Personal Digital Assistant Use in Radiology Click here (Recommended reading from Agfa Canada).
• Obesity: What's with this oversized load we're carrying?
  Longwoods will be featuring the crisis of obesity in the new year. For our supporting on-line resource library – if you have a white paper, new idea, power point presentation or video you would like to share please send it to our Web Editor. Use of submitted materials will be subject to editorial review. We look forward to your contributions.
• Emerging Health Leaders – register now for the inaugural half-day leadership development symposium for this new national initiative. For more information click here.
• Here is free access to a copy of Infoway’s Standards Collaborative Guide & Standards Catalogue (PDF). For more information, or for a hard copy of the publication, contact the Infoway Standards Collaborative InfoDesk toll-free at 1-877-595-3417 or email standards@infoway-inforoute.ca.
• Research Transfer Network of Alberta Conference | Sept. 28 to 30, 2008 | Banff, Alberta
  When the culture, language and life are different from ours. What is the impact of Twitter, Web 2.0, Second Life, podcasting and the like. How to account for culture, processes, context, research use capacity. Where storytelling, learning organizations, people tools for KT, and more count. To register, click here or visit the conference Web site.

These HealthcarePapers (from Vol. 1 No. 2 2000 | Integrated Healthcare) are provided at no charge courtesy of an educational grant from HPCanada. Read the complete issue on line, download and save the papers, send them to colleagues. Effective until midnight September 30, 2008.

• Healthcare. How will patients know when an integrated healthcare system exists?
  Peggy Leatt, George H. Pink, Michael Guerriere
• From the Bottom Up and Other Lessons from Down Under
  Sandra G. Leggat and Michael Walsh
• Formal and Informal Systems of Primary Healthcare in an Integrated System: Evidence from the United Kingdom
  Anne Rogers and Rod Sheaff
• Horizontal and Vertical Healthcare Integration: Lessons Learned from the United States
  S. Robert Hernandez
• Integrated Delivery Systems Now or .... ? ?
  Judith Shamian and Stephen J. LeClair
• Integrated Health Organizations in Canada: Developing the Ideal Model
  John Marriott and Ann L. Mable
• The Capital Health Region's Early Experiences: Moving Towards Integrated Healthcare
  Tom R. Closson
• A Healthy Community through Health System Partnerships: The Approach of Markham Stouffville Hospital
  James R. MacLean and Lorne Zon
• The Authors Respond
  Peggy Leatt, George H. Pink and Michael Guerriere
• Notes from the Associate Editor

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NURSING LEADERSHIP: VOL. 16 NO. 2, 2003
The following issue of the Journal of Nursing Leadership is available at no charge courtesy of McKesson. Read the complete issue on line, download and save the papers, send them to colleagues. Effective until midnight September 30, 2008.

• From the Editor-in-Chief Dorothy Pringle
• Nursing News
• Tributes to Nurses: ACEN Salutes RNs
  Patricia O'Connor
• Global Connectivity: A Blessing and a Curse
  James V. Porto
• A SARS Postcard - Reflections of Two Healthcare Leaders
  Lynn M. Nagle, Leslie Vincent
• Research: Ratcheting Up Research Efforts for Systems Change
  Nancy Edwards
• Practice: What Is the Greatest Challenge Currently Facing Leaders in Nursing Practice?
  Jane Chambers-Evans
• Administration: Leadership in Administration: Meeting the Challenge Through Creativity and Opportunity
  Wendy Hill
• Education: Inspiring Nursing's Spirit: A Leadership Challenge for Nurse Educators
  Carol L. McWilliam, RN, MScN, EdD Professor of Nursing University of Western Ontario London, Ontario
• Special Report: Nursing Education Think Tank 2002
• Good Night, Florence: With Nursing in Crisis, Some Say It's Time to Retire Nightingale as a Symbol
  Roxanne Nelson
• The Relative Value of Nursing Work: A Study in Progress
  Gloria Joachim, Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, Heather Mass, Robert Calnan, Janet Mann, Bernadet Ratsoy
• Describing the Essential Elements of a Professional Practice Structure
  Sue Mathews, Sara Lankshear
• Nurse Autonomy, Nurse Job Satisfaction and Client Satisfaction with Nursing Care: Their Place in Nursing Data Sets
  Majd Mrayyan
• E-Nursing: Electronic Nursing Resources on Your Desktop
  Sandra Kendall, Susan Massaralla, Patricia Hynes-Gay, Leslie Vincent
• Feasibility of Using Existing Statistics Canada Surveys to Describe the Health and Work of Nurses
  Mieke Koehoorn, Pamela A. Ratner, Judith Shamian

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• Leading Practices Poster for HealthAchieve2007 now online. Have you been selected to display your Leading Practices this November 2008? Look at last year’s submissions and winning entries. Remember, the judges always look for outcomes. Click here. The Leading Best Practices awards are supported by Accenture, Agfa Healthcare, IBM, Roche and 3M Health Care. For Awards Sponsorship Opportunities, contact Lina Lopez.

1. October 19-21, 2008: Vancouver BC. Innovation in HealthCare: Passion to Progress. Leaders from all areas of health care and related industries will attend this two-day conference focusing on leadership, systems change and sustainable outcomes. Confirmed to speak are, Hon.George Abbott, Dr. Richard Heinzl, Roger Martin, Tod Maffin, Stan Davis, Jeremy Gutsche and Rex Murphy. For more information, click here.
2. Wednesday, October 22, 2008 – Breakfast with the Chiefs. Toronto. Matt Anderson, CEO - Toronto Central LHIN. Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto. Register here.
   Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Cerner, CGI, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, IBM, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
   
   Breakfast with the Chiefs: registration requirements: some very fine print
   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. This year’s speakers include: Dr. Alan Hudson, Matthew Anderson, Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Dr. Ross Baker, Dr. Vivek Goel, Dr. Michael Guerriere, Ida Goudreau, Cliff Nordal, Murray Martin and Dr. Mary Ferguson-Pare. If you are not a subscriber click here first. If you are a subscriber register here.
   
   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.

SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
Des visites aux services d’urgence de l’Ontario en 2005–2006, les personnes âgées (65 ans et plus) occupaient une part inférieure au cinquième (18 %) de ces visites.

Healthcare Quarterly
Health Human Resources and Public-Private Partnerships: Understanding Their Contributions to Canada's Transforming Healthcare Environment
Joseph A. de Mora

HealthcarePapers
Understanding and Using the Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities
Eugene Wen, Carolyn Sandoval, Jennifer Zelmer and Greg Webster

Nursing Leadership
"I'm a Different Kind of Nurse": Advice from Nurses in Rural and Remote Canada
Martha L.P. MacLeod, Ruth Martin Misener, Kathy Banks, A. Michel Morton, Carolyn Vogt, Donna Bentham

Healthcare Policy
Emergency Department and Walk-in Clinic Use in Models of Primary Care Practice with Different After-Hours Accessibility in Ontario
Michelle Howard, James Goertzen, Janusz Kaczorowski, Brian Hutchison, Kelly Morris, Lehana Thabane, Mitch Levine and Alexandra Papaioannou

Electronic Healthcare
Bridging Information "Islands": Designing an Electronic Health Record That Meets Clinical Needs
Donna Strating, June MacGregor and Neal Campbell

World Health and Population
The Obstetric Pathology of Poverty: Maternal Mortality in Kep Province, Cambodia
Amitha Kalaichandran and David Zakus

Breakfast With The Chiefs - September 16th, 2008
Dr. Alan Hudson Improving Access - The Governance Challenges

Listen Here. Running time: 42:22 minutes.

Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio read this . . .
This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using storytelling, 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 Lina Lopez at LLopez@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance.

2008/2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 – Toronto
Matt Anderson, CEO - Toronto Central LHIN
Topic: A View from a LHIN.
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Cerner, CGI, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, IBM, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Register here

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 – Toronto
Vivek Goel
Vivek Goel is President and CEO of the Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Topic: Renewing Public Health in Ontario: The Role of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, HP Canada, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Toronto
Murray T. Martin, President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
Cliff Nordal, President and CEO, London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON
Topic: Let's settle the private/public hospital debate: A Conversation reflecting on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - Vancouver
Murray T. Martin, President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
Cliff Nordal, President and CEO, London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON
Topic: Let's settle the private/public hospital debate: A Conversation reflecting on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Vancouver,UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, Campus Level, HSBC Hall, C680
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, HP Canada, Ontario Hospital Association

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - Toronto
Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group
Topic: 2009 Review of IM/IT in Healthcare: The Unvarnished Version
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Courtyard Group, HP Canada, Ontario Hospital Association

Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs (dates TBD) Ida Goodreau, President and CEO for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division.

For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.

Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Matthew Anderson - then Vice-President, Chief Information Officer, UHN and Toronto Community Care Access Centre.
IT Collaboration Report (PDF).
Sponsors: Accenture, ACAHO, Dell Canada, Lanier Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems, Roche, and TELUS

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. This year’s speakers include: Dr. Alan Hudson, Matthew Anderson, Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Dr. Ross Baker, Dr. Vivek Goel, Dr. Michael Guerriere, Ida Goudreau, Cliff Nordal, Murray Martin and Dr. Mary Ferguson-Pare. If you are not a subscriber click here first. If you are a subscriber go to this page for information on upcoming dates: click here.

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

To see the photo archives click here. To see our video archives click here.

With its theme, Inspiring Ideas and Innovation, HealthAchieve2008 is Canada’s largest health care show, attracting thousands of hospital leaders and health care professionals from across the country. This year, HealthAchieve will be held November 3, 4 & 5 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Featuring keynote addresses from the Rt. Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Uwe Reinhardt and Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthAchieve2008 promises to be a truly inspiring event! For further information, visit www.healthachieve.com.

October 8, 2008: Online. Take your future for a test drive! Canadian Nurses Association's Premiere Webcast Event. Join CNA leaders and nurses from across the country to discuss current challenges and look at where the profession is headed. Learn how we're bringing forward solutions to improving our health system and advancing our roles. Log on to www.cna-aiic.ca on Wednesday. October 8, 2008 at 1:00 pm EDT and put nurses in the driver's seat!

October 14- 18, 2008: Toronto, ON. Dorothy Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute. The 15th offering of the award winning residential Nursing Leadership Development Program at the Institute for Learning with Keynote Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge, Rick Lash of the HayGroup. Limited Registration. Details, Brochure and Registration www.dwnli.ca or Contact Katrin Wade (416) 426-7229.

October 17, 2008: Toronto, ON. A public celebration of the life of Dr. Sheela Basrur at Convocation Hall, 31 King's College Circle, Rm 122, Toronto, ON from 4-5:30 p.m. On behalf of the family and friends of Dr. Sheela Basrur and the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, we would like to notify you of two special events that will be taking place this fall to celebrate her life and legacy. For information click here.

October 19-21, 2008: Vancouver BC. Innovation in HealthCare: Passion to Progress. Leaders from all areas of health care and related industries will attend this two-day conference focusing on leadership, systems change and sustainable outcomes. Confirmed to speak are, Hon.George Abbott, Dr. Richard Heinzl, Roger Martin, Tod Maffin, Stan Davis, Jeremy Gutsche and Rex Murphy. For more information, click here.

October 20, 2008: Richmond Hill, ON. Look Globally - Act Locally: Integrating Care in the Community for Vulnerable Populations.The Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community and OCSA will feature top speakers from Canada and Europe to learn more about what works, what does not, and what needs to be done at the local level to implement successful integrated client care initiatives. For more information click here.

October 20-21, 2008: Toronto, ON. 2008 CIHR Health Information Summit – Data, Data, Everywhere: Access and Accountability. Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in an international event that will bring together leading researchers, decision makers and other key stakeholders for a two-day Summit focusing on enhancing access to health information for research that supports evidence-informed decisions that improve the health of Canadians and their health system. Click here.

October 24, 2008: Ottawa,ON. First Annual EHL Leadership Symposium. Join Emerging Health Leaders for a half-day knowledge and networking symposium. The event targets young health professionals from a variety of health backgrounds including administration, research, policy, government, and practicing clinicians. Our focus will be leadership through an interprofessional and values-based lens with a keynote presentation and three concurrent workshops. For more information click here.

November 10-14, 2008: Toronto, ON. Health Leaders Institute. The 4th annual offering of this inter-professional residential leadership development program with keynote by Dr Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge, Rick Lash of the HayGroup. Limited Registration. Details, Brochure and Registration www.healthleaders.ca. or Contact Katrin Wade (416) 426-7229.

November 27, 2008: Toronto, ON. A evening fundraising reception at the Carlu to raise support and awareness of the public health outreach program to be created at the Sheela Basrur Centre. For information click here.

November 27-29, 2008: Toronto, ON. Family Medicine Forum. Canada’s largest family medicine conference. Co-hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) and the CFPC’s Sections of Teachers and Researchers. For conference program and registration click here.

February 19-22, 2009: Victoria, BC. Revolutionizing Healthcare with Informatics: From Research to Practice. Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare in Canada and internationally. In order to achieve this potential there will need to be a stronger bridge between research and practice in order to solve complex healthcare problems using technology and to develop best practices based on proven results. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 30, 2008. For details click here.

June 1-2, 2009: St. John’s, NL. National Healthcare Leadership Conference. Themed Accountability in Health System Leadership: The Balancing Act, this is the largest national gathering of health system leaders in Canada sponsored by the CCHSE and the CHA. The Call for Abstracts is now available online at www.healthcareleadershipconference.ca. Deadline for submission is November 2, 2008.

For our complete list of conferences and events go here.

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences.

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.

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