Home | About Us | Subscriptions | Contact | Healthcare JobSite | Sign up here for Longwoods FREE eLetter
[Click here to view the handheld or online version] [Cliquez ici pour L'eLetter en français]
“. . . as a VA nurse working with returning ... vets, I know the public has no sense of the additional devastating human and financial costs of post-traumatic stress disorder." From a Nursing Leadership editorial by Dorothy Pringle.
Sarah Kramer, President and CEO of eHealth Ontario: The Plan: Harnessing Technology and Innovation for Better Patient Care and Safety. Speech: November 03.08. Download PDF.
Pablo Rivero and Tom Closson discuss International Collaboration & Innovation in Citizen Engagement. Rumour has it Mr. Rivero, now deputy minister of health in Spain, has advised President Elect Barack Obama on matters related to healthcare.
HIT Report from KLAS: Speech Recognition 2008.
When the best in practices get together: Awards Report from HealthAchieve2008. Download PDF.
SUPPLY CHAIN (HealthcareRounds): To answer all your questions, Joseph Mapa and Mount Sinai Hospital host the expert team of: Dan Wright, Sarah Friesen, Cameron Love, and Bill Whittaker. November 26, 2008. 150 registered to date. A collaboration of The Ministry of Finance, the Council of Academic Hospitals and Longwoods Publishing. Coffee and a light breakfast for early comers. Be our guest. Register here.
Microsoft® HealthVault – a preview from Microsoft Corporation in collaboration with Longwoods Publishing. 368 registered to date.
Details + register for Ottawa here. November 24th, 2008, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm.
Details + register for Toronto here. November 25th, 2008, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm.
In case you are keeping track of Longwoods.com:
Number of pages visited last quarter [Ending Sept. 30, 2008] 1,618,599 | Previous year: 1,079,406
Number of hits last quarter [Ending Sept. 30, 2008] 6,303,061 | Previous year: 4,190,863
Number of visits last quarter [Ending Sept. 30, 2008] 611,060 | Previous year: 473,097
Daily Health and Healthcare News. Compiled by our Editors and Canadian Press.
Listeriosis up to the minute news updates from Google.
More news from Health Edition online.
SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
La durée moyenne des hospitalisations à la suite d’une arthroplastie du genou a diminué de façon considérable en 10 ans.
|
The eLetter is enabled by an unrestricted educational grant from ...
|
| Philips Healthcare | People focused. Healthcare simplified. Visit our website. Please click here. |
Healthcare Quarterly
The Beneficial Role of a Judicial Process When "Everything" Is Too Much?
Mark Handelman and Bob Parke
HealthcarePapers
Physicians, Thou Shalt Ration: The Necessary Role of Bedside Rationing in Controlling Healthcare Costs
Peter A. Ubel
Nursing Leadership
What Else Does the Box Say?
Lynn M. Nagle
Healthcare Policy
"Mind the Gap": Seven Key Issues in Aligning Medical Education and Healthcare Policy
Joanna Bates, Chris Lovato, and Terri Buller-Taylor
Electronic Healthcare
Measuring Information Technology Investment among Canadian Academic Health Sciences Centres
Lorraine Pederson and Kevin Leonard
World Health and Population
Paediatric Health Economic Evaluations: A World View
Wendy J. Ungar
What is the research telling us about the quality of work-life for nurses and its implications for their retention and recruitment?
Linda O'Brien-Pallas and Tom Closson
Cataract removal is an increasingly common surgical procedure. Today in Canada, however, the waiting time for this procedure may be unacceptably long for many patients.
Click here to Listen.
Runtime: 60 minutes 45 seconds
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.
|
Electronic Healthcare. Best practices, policy and innovations exploring e-models, e-practices and e-products for e-health. For administrators, academics, insurers, suppliers and policy pundits. Only $9 per article or an annual subscription for $87.
Implementation of the Veterans Health Administration VistA Clinical Information System around the World Whose Record Is It Anyway? Putting Patients' Interests at the Heart of the Implementation and Use of Electronic Medical Records Demonstrating the BlackBerry as a Clinical Communication Tool: A Pilot Study Conducted through the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care Be sure your individual subscription is up to date. Sign up online here or contact Barbara Marshall – bmarshall@longwoods.com or 416-864-9667. |
2008/2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs
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: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare, Sodexo
Register here.
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, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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: Dr. Alan Hudson - Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Improving Access-the Governance Challenges (PDF).
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, IBM, McKesson Canada, Philips Healthcare, HPME, University of Toronto, HP Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
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.
November 24-25, 2008: Toronto ON. The 8th edition of Insight’s E-HEALTH and MEDICAL RECORDS will focus on the latest developments around the use and application of e-health systems to drive and improve quality in healthcare. Confirmed speakers include Bill Pascal, Chief Technology Officer of the CMA, as well as keynote addresses by Ida Goodreau, CEO of Vancouver Coastal Health and Ken Anderson, Assistant Commissioner (Privacy) for the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. For more information click here.
November 24-25, 2008: Ottawa, ON. CNA presents Influencing Public Policy Workshop: Strategies & Tactics. This two-day workshop is designed to help nurses better understand the development and influencing of public policy. Non-nurses are also welcome. Attendees will leave the workshop equipped with practical tips and a knowledge base that enables them to influence policy agendas. Download PDF for more details.
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.
November 28, 2008: Hamilton, ON: 2008 Reid-Greenaway Conference, Nurses Building Bridges: Collaborations and Partnerships between Primary Care and Public Health. This year’s conference will feature primary care and public health researchers and practitioners from across Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba speaking on their experiences with and research on collaborations involving a broad variety of health issues. For details click here.
December 2-3, 2008: Toronto, ON. The Teamwork Workshop – Move beyond the buzzword and make it real with this innovative event from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. Register today!
January 26–27, 2009: Toronto, ON. Health Information Privacy, Safety and Security conference will gather health care and health information privacy experts from across the country and look further afield to the experiences of our European and American neighbours in building robust health information privacy and security systems. Register by November 7, 2008 and Save! For details 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.
March 19 - 20, 2009: Edmonton, AB. Leaders in Rehabilitation: the Rehabilitation of Function, Alberta Health Services, in the Edmonton and Calgary areas and the University of Alberta - Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine are pleased to announce the 4th Leaders in Rehabilitation conference. Speakers and special guests include Mr. Alan Lilly, Dr. Mike Landry, Dr. Peter Rosenbaum, Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell and Dr. Arya Sharma. For details click here.
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.
[We don't go looking for these conferences. Send details to conferences@longwoods.com]
Barbara Drew to acting chief executive office, Canadian Medical Association
Rheney Castillo to Senior Director for Women and Infants Health and Nursing, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto ON
Dr. Jack Kitts (President & CEO, The Ottawa Hospital), to Chair, ACAHO Board of Directors
Ida Goodreau (President & CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority), to Member, ACAHO Board of Directors
Dr. Arthur Porter (Executive Director & CEO, McGill University Health Centre) to Member, ACAHO Board of Directors
Christine Power (President & CEO, Capital District Health Authority) to member, ACAHO Board of Directors
Theresa Fillatre to Director of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives for the Province of Nova Scotia
Brock Hovey to Co-Director of the Canadian College of Health Service for the Province of Ontario
Colin Houghton to EDS as Practice Leader for Health Care in Ontario.
[Don’t forget, we don’t make these up. Please send your promotions, appointments, retirements and other transitions to publisher@longwoods.com.]
Review all recently reported Transitions here.
Visit our portal of more than 60 participating healthcare recruitment centres.
[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com]
If you have ever wanted to re-visit an archived Longwoods eLetter go here. To unsubscribe from this newsletter click here.
HOME | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ADVERTISING INFO | CONTACT US | JOBSHEET
Healthcare Quarterly | HealthcarePapers | Electronic Healthcare | World Health | Nursing Leadership (CJNL) | Healthcare Policy | Law & Governance | HR Resources | Special Issues | Patient Safety Reports | Longwoods Online | Transitions | Conferences | Home and Community Care Digest | Case Study Library | White Papers | Longwoods Blog