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Longwoods is 10
. . . and here is our current Quarterly Readership Report
Longwoods has just completed its first decade serving providers and administrators of research, policy, care, products and services. Everything we have ever published is available on our website. This is the virtual Longwoods Library – a searchable encyclopedia for your reference.
Visits, Hits & Page Views
And how many people use the Longwoods Library? Here is a statistical update for the last quarter from July 01, 2007 to September 30, 2007. Longwoods.com recorded:
Visits: 473,007 (Previous Quarter:434,779)
Hits: 4,190,545 (Previous Quarter:3,580,212)
Page Views: 1,079,344 (Previous Quarter:1,210,623)
PDF Downloads: 52,412 (Previous Quarter:40,910)
[all web server log analysis from Summary.Net]
Integration or Medicare
Our editors and advisors are divided on which healthcare topic dominated the last decade. We’ll give you the details in up-coming eLetters. In the meantime here is a partial reading list providing ideas, policies and practices related to integration.
For more resources on integration ideas, policies, practices and cases please click here.
Healthy Workplaces
Here is a whole issue dedicated to healthy workplaces – open access . . . it's free.
AWARDS
Wayne McLellan, Director of Engineering Services at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, to recipient of the 2007 Hans Burgers Award for Outstanding Contribution to Healthcare Engineering. From The Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society.
Dr. Donald Berwick to one of six recipients of the 13th annual Heinz Awards. They were "bestowed on six extraordinary Americans whose pioneering achievements have helped expand human understanding, spur innovation and enhance the world's capacity to sustain itself."
From the Health Quality Council (Sask.) . . .
This will matter| HSMR is coming
In late November, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) will publicly release HSMR results for larger acute care facilities across Canada (outside Quebec). The Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) is a measurement tool that compares a hospital's mortality rate with the overall average rate, and allows facilities to track changes over time.
A one-hour web conference will provide an overview of the format and content of the public release of HSMR results, and address stakeholder questions about the release. Its on October 31, 3:00 PM EDT (For BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) https://cihi.webex.com/cihi/j.php?ED=89198982 Password: hsmr-guest | Meeting #792 614 968
Quality Improvement Consultant School
Health Quality Council invites you to learn more about Quality Improvement Consultant (QIC) School, an intense year-long course that will transform your approach to quality improvement. More information on QIC School is available at www.hqc.sk.ca.
Influenza vaccination rates more than doubled in Canada over past decade: ICES study
DID YOU KNOW?
Women are more than twice as likely as men to have a hip fracture - but men are more likely to die after such an injury. More at CIHI.
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HealthcarePapers Special Issue
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.
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Healthcare Quarterly
How Effective Leaders Achieve Success in Critical Change Initiatives, Part 3: Command and Let Go of Control
Sharon King and Larry Peterson
HealthcarePapers
Romanow and Kirby on the Public/Private Divide in Healthcare: Demystifying the Debate
Howard Chodos, Jeffrey J. MacLeod
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Effects of Director of Care Support on Job Stress and Job Satisfaction among Long-Term Care Nurse Supervisors
Katherine S. McGilton, Linda McGillis Hall, Veronique Boscart and Maryanne Brown
Healthcare Policy
The Magnitude, Share and Determinants of Private Costs Incurred by Clients (and Their Caregivers) of In-home Publicly Financed Care
Vivian W. Leong, Denise N. Guerriere, Ruth Croxford and Peter C. Coyte
Electronic Healthcare
HIT Report from KLAS: Extensive IT Outsourcing: Advice from Providers
Mike Smith and Stacilee Whiting
World Health and Population
Prosperity, Equity, Good Governance and Good Health: Focus on HIV?AIDS Pandemic and Its Feminization
Binod Nepal
Today’s featured Podcast: Bringing Research Results to the Bedside
This podcast was produced by the Canadian Medical Association. Dr. James Worthington, explains how EXTRA (Executive Training for Research Application) made a difference to him, and how his project had an impact at the Ottawa Hospital.
Listen here . Running time: 13.06 minutes
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November 5, 6 & 7, 2007. Toronto, Ontario. Visit www.ohahealthachieve.com
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 – Toronto
Graham W.S. Scott and Glenda Yeates
Topic: The future planning of the health care system from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) perspective
Location: Toronto, McMillan Binch Law Firm at BCE Place
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 – Toronto
Linda O'Brien-Pallas and Tom Closson
Topic: What is the research telling us about the quality of work-life for nurses and its implications for their retention and recruitment?
Location: Toronto, Health Sciences Building, U of T, Room 106
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, IBM Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
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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 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 24-25, 2007. Toronto, ON. 2007 MEDEC Legal & Regulatory Conference. Special sessions focus on the potential effect of global harmonization, hot legal topics, medical device regulations, and workshops that provide the opportunity for information exchange with presenters from the regulators side of the table as well as with peers in the industry. For details click here.
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.
October 30, 2007 - Ethics in Action: Providing Care & Feeling Good About It - VCH/PHC Clinical Ethics Conference. Brochure, Registration Form and Program.
November 3, 2007 - Edmonton, AB. Bariatrics: The New Demographic - What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going? Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital,formore information call Education Services, Glenrose at (780) 735-7912, email GRHEdServices@capitalhealth.ca or visit the website here.
November 4-7, 2007 – Vancouver, BC. Practice Makes Perfect, Education of Health Professionals in Community, Clinical and Simulated Settings - International Conference 2007 at Sheraton Wall Centre. Read More
November 5-7, 2007. Fort Lauderdale, FL. National Conference on Health Information Capture. Hospitals and Physicians are Savings Millions with Innovative
Approaches to Information Capture - Learn How at the Exciting Conference and Exhibit. 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.
November 12-16, 2007 (with follow up April 2008): Toronto, ON. Health Leaders Institute at BMO Institute for Learning. Join inter-professional colleagues for a week of leadership exploration and development featuring Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge, Haygroup’s Emotional Intelligence Practice Team, and Mixed Company Theatre Group among others. For details click here.
November 15-17 2007: Toronto, ON. 45th Annual Scientific Assembly of the Ontario College of Family Physicians. The Premier Family Medicine Conference in Ontario. Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel. For more information visit our website or call Lourdes Alvares at 416.867.9646 ext 48
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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Kori Kingsbury to Chief Executive Officer of the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario
Dr. Louise McNaughton-Filion to Emergency Department (ED) Lead for the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) region.
Christopher Loomis to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Governing Council for a three-year term.
Dan Levitt to Manager, Major Gifts/Planned Giving, Tapestry Foundation for Health Care
Dr. Nancy Martin to Director, Information Management & Deputy C.I.O, Bridgepoint Health
Tony Khouri to Director, Redevelopment, Bridgepoint Health
Susan Himel to Strategy Lead, LiveWell!, Bridgepoint Health
Jane Merkley to Chief of Professional Affairs and Chief Nurse Executive, Bridgepoint Health
Randy Ausenhus to Director, Information Services & Chief Technology Officer, Bridgepoint Health
Dr. Pierre Chartrand to act as President of CIHR in the interim
Dr. Nancy Edwards, Vice-Chair of CIHR's Governing Council, to assume the duties and functions of the Chairperson of Governing Council
George Weber to Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.
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