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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. 200 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.
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La main-d’œuvre masculine en soins infirmiers autorisés continue d’augmenter au Canada. Près de la moitié des infirmiers autorisés travaillent au Québec.
Healthcare Quarterly
Opinions: Interprofessional Education: A College Perspective
Lorie Shekter-Wolfson
HealthcarePapers
The Role of Health Administration Education in Developing Healthcare Leaders
Janet Reagan
Nursing Leadership
The Practice Doctorate: Where Do Canadian Nursing Leaders Stand?
Gloria Joachim
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
A National Education Strategy to Develop Nursing Informatics Competencies
Marilynne Hebert
World Health and Population
Household Decisions to Utilize Maternal Healthcare in Rural and Urban India
Sisira Sarma and Henry Rempel
Articles dealing with Women's Health in Developing Countries
Abstracts from the journal World Health and Population
Titles include The Obstetric Pathology of Poverty: Maternal Mortality in Kep Province, Cambodia; Maternal Chronic Ill Health Negatively Affects Child Survival in a Poor Rural Population of Pakistan; and The Relationship of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence to Sexual-Risk Behaviour among Refugee Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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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 Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Mary Ferguson Pare, Dr. Penny Ballem, Tom Closson, and Glenda Yeates.
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.
Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Vivek Goel, President and CEO, Agency for Health Protection and Promotion. Presented Tuesday, November 18, 2008.
Recommended Reading: Renewing Public Health in Ontario: The Role of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion PDF (12590.32 KB)
Sponsors: Accenture, ACAHO, HPME, University of Toronto, HP Canada, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare.
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.
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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 9 – 10, 2009: Halifax, NS. Chronic and Complex Care: Prevention, Care Planning and Management. This conference will explore many facets of CDM with input from healthcare policy makers and clinical leaders, including delivery of care, proactive management, and a look at the acute care impacts of chronic illness. Register by December 5th, 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.
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Jeff Lozon to President & CEO, Revera
Pat Campbell to inaugural President and CEO of ECHO, the province of Ontario’s new women’s health agency
Andreas Laupacis to Member of the Alberta Health Services Board. (For a complete list of the new board download PDF)
François Côté to President of TELUS Health Solutions
Tom Daschle to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Department, the US Government.
Emergis becomes TELUS Health Solutions in a corporate merge.
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