Longwoods eLetter November 20, 2007

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“ . . . there is little evidence that the public expect improper use by those collecting or holding personal health information.” From the report: Electronic Health Information and Privacy Survey: What Canadians Think (PDF) — 2007 sponsored by Canada Health Infoway, Health Canada, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Feds taking close to $300 Million out of the health system with GST money grab. ACAHO | CHA release.

Canadians' support for electronic health records at 88%, poll finds

Will Interests Collide or Fuse?
Great Minds in Dialogue at Breakfast with the Chiefs.
Tom Closson, the OHA’s CEO-in-Waiting meets Linda O'Brien-Pallas, the CHSRF/CIHR National Chair, Nursing Health Human Resources. This will be Tom’s first public appearance since his new appointment, giving Linda an exceptional opportunity to share her thoughts about the quality of nurses’ work-life -- with every hospital administrator’s official representative. When: Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Where: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street, Room 106, Toronto, ON. How: Click here to register.

More on HR Best Practices
If you search Longwoods.com for "human resources" - you will get +1000 titles. Here are the top 75 papers as rated by Google. Top of the list is Impact of IT on HR.

Publishers Choice: Where Are the Healthcare Leaders? The Need for Investment in Leadership Development. Complete issue available as open access.

AWARDS
Cancer Care Ontario received the Diamond Award, at the 2007 Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) for developing and deploying the Wait Time Information System (WTIS) in support of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Developed and deployed by ACCENTURE. See: Cancer Care Ontario (PDF)

Nova Scotia Department of Health received CIPA’s Gold Award for Organizational Transformation for their PACS Project. Jointly funded by the Department of Health and Canada Health Infoway, managed by Sierra Systems, with state of the art technology from Agfa HealthCare

Public Health Agency of Canada received the Silver Award for Organizational Transformation for their Traveller Health Assessment Database. When we find it we’ll let you know.

MORE AWARDS
The Best of the Leading Practices Awards at this year’s Health Achieve conference went to Cancer Care Ontario for their project: Improving the Patient Experience throughout All Phases of Care. Sponsored by the HIMSS Analytics.

Joining them are these select organizations. Together they are the top eight Leading Practices presented as electronic displays and selected from more than 120 entries:

St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto for the display: A Better and Safer Patient Experience of Care: Setting New Standards in Patient Access and Flow. Sponsored by Medtronic.
Whitby Mental Health Centre for the display: Summits on Stigma – Enhancing the Patient Experience through Destigmatizing People with Mental Illness. Sponsored by IBM.
Windsor Regional Hospital for the display: Lions & Tigers & Bears – Oh My! Sponsored by HP Canada.
Women’s Health Centre, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton for the poster: Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Immigrant Women. Sponsored by Roche.
Mount Sinai Hospital for the display: Innovations and Adaptation: Development of a Culturally Competent Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT). Sponsored by Amgen.
Group Health Centre for the display: The Vascular Intervention Program (VIP) Project. Sponsored by Accenture.
Peterborough Regional Health Centre for the display: Implementation of the Acute Stroke Protocol: The Halliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Experience. Sponsored by 3M Canada.

The Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education [2007] was awarded to: Hilary Espezel and Kris Gustavson from the Provincial Health Services Authority (BC), Department of Quality, Safety & Risk Management, with Maura MacPhee and Marion Clauson from the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing. They presented an initiative designed to provide practice experience as part of education curricula. Utilizing existing resources within a new format resulted in several rapid, positive changes in patient care practices. The award is produced by the Longwoods Healthcare Board, and sponsored by Philips Medical Systems.

These awards are enabled by leading healthcare corporations - a demonstration of their commitment to education and innovation.

For all you fundraisers: Donors Bid Millions NOT to Rename School (this clip courtesy of C. Martin (NS)

 . . .and a tid bit. St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton has installed a fibre-optic line to enable out-going television broadcasting. This makes them a natural source of information for local media and provides a daily connection to their community. And it's reported that the CEO used a campaign type, fully decaled and decorated bus to go from campus to campus and throughout town “selling” the board-approved five-year plan. Neat. 

DID YOU KNOW?
The national rate of hospitalization due to injury is decreasing. More at CIHI.

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Healthcare Quarterly
Private Health Insurance: An International Overview and Considerations for Canada
Irfan Dhalla

HealthcarePapers
Pandemic Influenza: When Mother Nature Calls, Will We be Prepared to Answer?
J. Bennet Waters

Nursing Leadership
Everything I Know About Informatics, I Didn't Learn in Nursing School
Lynn M. Nagle

Healthcare Policy
Pharmaceutical Use and Outcomes: Always a Need for a Sober Second Look
Steve Morgan, Brenda MacGibbon

Electronic Healthcare
Reporting the performance of HIT vendors: Smart Pumps
Stacilee Whiting and Jason Hess

World Health and Population
Structural Adjustment Programs and the Trickle-Down Effect: A Case Study of the Fujimori Period in Peru, Using Reproductive Health as an Indicator for Levels of Poverty
Sonia Simone Menon

Today’s featured Podcast: A Community-Researcher Alliance to Improve Chronic Wound Care

This case demonstrates that, with a collaborative partnership approach, systematic and transparent research processes can be rapidly developed to support policy change.

Listen here (link to audio).  Running time: 10:38 minutes

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Upcoming Events:

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 – Toronto
Graham W.S. Scott and Glenda Yeates
Topic: The New CIHI. New Data, New Roles.
Location: Toronto, McMillan BinchMendelsohn Law Firm at BCE Place
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
Click Here to register

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 
Click Here to register

See our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs video: A five Country Comparison that Focuses on three Cancer Care Ontario Profiles that Exemplify Key Challenges for Achieving High Performance. With Terrance Sullivan, President and CEO, Cancer Care Ontario and Jessica Hill, CEO, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. To view presentation click here

For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations Click Here

The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts.  If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.

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

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.

May 26-28, 2008: Gatineau, QC. Bridging Silos" the 2008 CAHSPR Conference. The Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research invites you to submit an abstract for the 2008 Conference. The goal of the CAHSPR Conference is to bridge across the various silos that exist within our system and unite researchers, decision makers and policy makers in the common purpose of preparing for change in the priority areas of our healthcare system. Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2007. Click Here for more information or to submit an abstract.

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]

Canadian Partnership against Cancer | Advisory Council on Cancer Control appoints: Dr. Simon Sutcliffe, Chair, Heather Bryant, Vice-Chair, and Jessica Hill, Partnership CEO. And appoints members: Harley Ast; Carrie Bourassa; Dr. Mark Elwood; Dr. Eva Grunfeld; Barbara Kaminsky; Dr. Jean Latreille; Ms. Elisa Levi; Ms. Ellen Murphy; Dr. Mike Richards; Dr. Paul Rogers; Dr. Jack Siemiatycki; Jack Shapiro; Dr. Sylvie Stachenko; and Dr. Isaac Sobol.

Canadian Partnership against Cancer appoints Action Group chairs: Dr. Alan Katz, Primary Prevention Action Group; Dr. Verna Mai, Screening Action Group; Dr. Brent Schacter, Standards Action Group; Dr. George Browman, Cancer Guidelines Group; Dr. Margaret Fitch, Rebalance Focus Action Group; Dr. Andrew Padmos, Human Resources Action Group, Bob Allen, Surveillance Action Group, Dr. Philip Branton, Research Action Group.

André Marcheterre; Eric M. Meslin; K. Kellie Leitch; Robert N. Klein; Siobhan Coady; and William Gelbart to Directors of Genome Canada

Charles Beall to Chair of the Board and Dee Patterson; Dr. Elizabeth LaMere; Jeff O'Neill Peter Riggin; Sara Gelgor and Wade Oosterman to Governors of North York General Hospital Foundation

Ronnie Miller to Chairman, Board of Directors Rx&D
Dana Lafarga to Vice-President, Professional Services SAS Canada
Neil Closner to Vice President of Business Development, Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)
Don Keats to Deputy Minister, Health and Community Services, Newfoundland and Labrador

[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.

Director of Health Disciplines Practice, Research & Knowledge Translation - Whitby Mental Health Centre, Whitby, On
Director, Policy - College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC)
Executive Director Position - Elizabeth Bagshaw Women’s Clinic, Vancouver, BC
Chief Executive Officer - Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital Carleton Place, ON
Director of Operations (Quebec, Eastern Canada & Nunavut) - Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Ottawa, ON
Executive Director - Haro Park Centre, Vancouver, BC
Student Nurse Burseries - Northwest Territories Health and Social Services
Career Opportunities at Courtyard Group
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Hamilton Health Sciences
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Vancouver Coastal Health
Career Opportunities at Vancouver Island Health Authority
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Healthcare Quarterly Careers (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)