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“Mastering the generation of good changes is not the same as mastering the use of good changes.” Dr. Donald Berwick on his examination of the literature on disseminating innovations in healthcare.
The Society of Graduates (SOG) of the University of Toronto Health Policy Management and Evaluation would like to invite you to dinner on October 17th. Click here for details. Please confirm your interest with Corinne.Berinstein1@ontario.ca
Awards:
Matthew Anderson, SOG Leadership Award
Polly Stevens, SOG Innovation Award
Mohamad Alameddine, SOG Graduate Literary Award in Health Services Policy & Management
Sanober Motiwala, SOG Graduate Literary Award in Health Services Evaluation
Hamilton Health Sciences returns to Top 100 Employers List for 2008, and also earns a spot as Hamilton-Niagara’s Top Employers.
Published ten years ago to the day Hospital Quarterly Volume 1, No. 1
Reengineering and Integrating Healthcare Delivery: What Have We Learned in the 1990s
Michael B. Decter, Jan Norris and Sarah Kramer
Peggy Leatt and the Department of Health Administration
David Menzies
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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
CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Decision Support: A New Approach to Making the Best Healthcare Management and Policy Choices
Jonathan Lomas
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Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System
Louise Lemieux-Charles
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Thinking Ecologically for Safer Healthcare: A Summer Research Student Partnership
Patricia Marck, Glenda Coleman-Miller, Carolyn Hoffman, Beth Horsburgh, Samantha Woolsey, Anila Dina, Tamara Dorfman, Jennifer Nolan, Naomi Jackson, Jennifer A. Kwan, Kathryn Hagedorn
Healthcare Policy
Turning Vision into Reality: Successful Integration of Primary Healthcare in Taber, Canada
Robert Wedel, Ruth Grant Kalischuk, Eileen Patterson, Sharon Brown
Electronic Healthcare
Bringing Data to the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Process; The PPPESO Perinatal Database: From Low Tech to High Tech
Jim Bottomley, Paula Stewart, Patricia Niday, Peter Finkle, Shelley Moneta, Ann Mitchell, Monica Prince and Paul Mahood
World Health and Population
AIDS-Related Stigma: Perceptions of Family Caregivers and Health Volunteers in Western Uganda
Walter Kipp, Ellen Bajenja, Ednah Karamagi and Denis Tindyebwa
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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
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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 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
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Deborah Hammons to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central East Local Health Integration Network (ON).
Judith Tompkins to Chief, Nursing Practice and Professional Services and Executive Vice President of Programs, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (ON)
Dr. Peter Dent to the St. Peter’s Health System Board of Directors
Gary Reynolds to the St. Peter’s Health System Board of Directors
Elio Antunes to Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of partnerships ParticipACTION
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