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“But was he deliberately lying? Perhaps not. The more interesting possibility is that he sincerely believed his own myth. His brain may have been editing his memory to create the story that assisted his ideological agenda. Thank heavens you and I never do that." Robert Evans discuses how aging effects our Plastic Brains. Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé, 3(1) 2007: 24-30
Recognizing . . . Alan Bernstein named Inaugural Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise Names. Opens New Secretariat
Upcoming . . . Governance: the state of the art - Click here
Troubling . . . Are Seniors Suffering with Dementia Benefiting from Pills? ICES study Click here
Meddling . . . Palisades Medical Center executives overreacted when they suspended doctors and nurses who took a sneak peek at movie and television star George Clooney's medical records during his recent stay at the hospital, says the head of the hospital union.
Introducing . . . The HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo Click here
Providing . . . more Healthcare IT News
Breakfast with the Chiefs / Great Minds in Dialog has booked these for Toronto (before year end):
Terrance Sullivan and Jack Kitts. Click Here to register. | Graham W.S. Scott and Glenda Yeates. Click Here to register. | Linda O'Brien-Pallas and Tom Closson. Click Here to register. More details below.
Are you a member of the Longwoods HealthcareBoard? You can now reserve overnight accommodations and private meeting rooms at the University Club of Toronto in the heart of the Medical and Discovery District. Here are some details. Download PDF. Institutional Subscribers and Corporate partners of Longwoods are all members. If you don’t know if you are a member ask Barbara Marshall
Dinner Invitation for Tonight: The Society of Graduates (SOG) of the University of Toronto Health Policy Management and Evaluation would like to invite you to dinner tonight: Tuesday October 16th. Click here for details. Please confirm your interest with Corinne.Berinstein1@ontario.ca
Governance Ideas & Resources . . .
“The board is not responsible for conducting strategic planning, but rather it ensures that strategic planning is done. As a result, the board benefits from strategic planning by playing its role in providing strategic management of the business and affairs of the corporation.” Taken from the new acclaimed Guide to Good Governance published by the Ontario Hospital Association. Here is one of many templates: Click on: Form 3 - Sample Statement of the Roles and Responsibilities of the Board (its free). Order the whole Guide to Good Governance here: Go to the bottom of the page.)
AWARDS
Dr. Marc Ruel of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute is the first cardiovascular surgeon in Canada to receive the gold medal of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons for research excellence. Dr. Ruel is developing methods to transplant cells from the bloodstream to help mend a damaged heart; results will be published later this year.
All about HR strategies. 1. Short profiles of 47 of the GTA's Top 50 employers according to Toronto publisher Mediacorp. How do you compare? Click here. 2. Branding Down to the Core: Branding: articulating a reputation and its significance. Does it make a difference. Click here.
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The number of physicians leaving Canada for the U.S. has declined sharply over a period of five years. More at CIHI.
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Healthcare Quarterly
Frequency, Determinants and Impact of Overcrowding in Emergency Departments in Canada: A National Survey
Kenneth Bond, Maria B. Ospina, Sandra Blitz, Marc Afilalo, Sam G. Campbell, Michael Bullard, Grant Innes, Brian Holroyd, Gil Curry, Michael Schull and Brian H. Rowe
HealthcarePapers
Balancing Equity Issues in Health Systems: The Example of Vancouver Coastal Health
Ida Goodreau
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Use of Q-Methodology to Identify Nursing Faculty Viewpoints of a Collaborative BScN Program Experience
Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Barbara Brown, Elizabeth Rideout, Mary Brown, Lois Gaspar
Healthcare Policy
Education Level, Income Level and Mental Health Services Use in Canada: Associations and Policy Implications
Leah S. Steele, Carolyn S. Dewa, Elizabeth Lin, Kenneth L.K. Lee
Electronic Healthcare
Legislative Barriers to Outpatient e-Prescribing in a Randomized Trial
Sherman Quan, Merrick F. Zwarenstein, Katie N. Dainty, William J. Sibbald and Neill K. Adhikari
World Health and Population
The Effect of Community-Based Health Education Intervention on Management of Menstrual Hygiene among Rural Indian Adolescent Girls
A.R. Dongre, P.R. Deshmukh and B.S. Garg
Today’s featured Podcast: Patient safety beyond hospitals: A look at patient safety culture in nursing homes
...this study examines patient safety culture in nursing homes, compares nursing home safety scores against hospital benchmark scores, ...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 – Toronto
Terrance Sullivan and Jack Kitts
Topic: A five country comparison that focuses on three Cancer Care Ontario profiles that exemplify key challenges for achieving high performance
Location: Toronto, Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, Main Floor Auditorium
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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, University of Toronto, Room 106
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, IBM Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
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October 19, 2007: Toronto, ON. Child First, Patient Second: Biennial Nursing Conference. The Pediatric Nursing Conference will provide participants with the most up-to-date information in pediatric nursing practice. The objective is to present relevant, practice-oriented approaches to pediatric care. For 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 24-26, 2007. Minneapolis, MN. Collaborating Across Borders: An American-Canadian Dialogue on Interprofessional Health Education. Together across national and health professions borders, we will explore the link between interprofessional education (IPE), policy, and collaborative patient-centered practice. We think it's time to ask the "tough questions" about interprofessional education. At the end of the day, are we making a difference in the way health professionals are educated and practice? Share your ideas: submit a proposal for a session today! 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 6, 2007. HIMSS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Attend 12 live educational sessions with esteemed industry speakers. Be eligible to obtain CE Credits. Have access to the content for three full months after the virtual event. The in-depth sessions you'll attend will cover topics such as: Integration | Interoperability | HER | RHIOs | ROI | Nursing Informatics. View the Schedule The Explosive Growth of Medical Tourism and What it Means to the Healthcare Industry. FREE Opening Keynote. Robert K. Crone, MD – President & Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Medical International; Dean for International Programs, Harvard Medical School; and Clinical Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School View Bio > | John Helfrick, DDS, MS, FACD, FICD – Senior Consultant, Harvard Medical International and President, International Society for Quality in Health Care View Bio >
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November 8-9, 2007. Montreal, QC. First Canadian Roundtable on Public Health Ethics: Exploring the Foundations. Dialogue among policy makers, academics and public health practitioners to better understand and apply public health ethics, foster inter-professional and inter-sectoral linkages; and identify issues and opportunities for supporting the development of a national framework for public health ethics. 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 14-15, 2007. Toronto, ON. COACH Executive Forum Recruiting and Retaining Health Informatics Professionals: What You Need to Know and Do. Canada’s Health Informatics Association presents this event as the first in the new Executive Forum Series. Learn new methods for recruiting top talent and retaining high performers through targeted career development and recognize contributions from the best and brightest that lead to successful implementations and results. Explore the practical application of a competency framework, evaluate metrics that track employee recruitment, retention and recognition and much more. 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
November 20-21, 2007. Gatineau, QC. Fueling the Innovation Engine - Accelerating the adoption of improvement. The theme of the Forum will be the spread and sustainability of improvement ideas and initiatives. It will feature Mr. Hugh MacLeod, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Accountability and Performance Division, MOHLTC, Dr. Lynne Maher, Head of Innovation Practice, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and Nora Spinks, President of Work-Life Harmony Enterprises. In partnership with the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA), we are offering an optional pre-conference workshop on November 19th, entitled Spotlight on Required Organizational Practices (RoPs). For details click here.
November 20-21, 2007: Vancouver, BC: Lean for Healthcare Workshop. Introduction to Lean concepts and tool adapted specifically to healthcare; presented by Lean Innovations Inc. For details click here.
November 26-27, 2007: Kingston, ON. Wait Times in Canada – Writing the ‘Script for Success: From Dialogue to Action. Learn what has been done so far to reduce wait times, what has worked and what has not, and what the Canadian health care system must do next to make a difference. Then help us, through a highly interactive session, to develop practical and concrete solutions and future directions for reducing wait times for medical care in Canada. These solutions will be published – with appropriate credit to all participants – in discussion papers after the conference. For details click here.
December 4-5, 2007: Toronto, ON: Lean for Healthcare Workshop. Introduction to Lean concepts and tool adapted specifically to healthcare; presented by Lean Innovations Inc. For details click here.
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Alan Bernstein to Inaugural Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
John Frank to Director, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research
Benoît Long to Vice President and Chief Information and Marketing Officer, Trillium Health Centre
Kori Kingsbury to Chief Executive Officer, The Cardiac Care Network of Ontario
Karen Sullivan to Executive Director, the Ontario Long-Term Care Association
Thomas (Tim) Armstrong re-appointed to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB)
Shannon MacDonald to Deloitte's National Healthcare Leader
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