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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.
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
The Sauder School of Business at UBC has launched an Executive MBA in Healthcare program, developed in collaboration with the UBC Centre for Healthcare Management and Leaders for Life. Designed exclusively for healthcare executives, this ground-breaking 15-month program offers the broad leadership and management foundations of an MBA, applied to the unique context and complexities of healthcare management. Download the PDF or click here for more information
Call for Papers
Healthcare Policy/Politiques de Santé is now accepting submissions for Health Technology Briefs. This new section of the journal provides a forum for brief reports of health technology assessments and policy analyses that can inform Canadian health policy development and health system management. Submissions from health technology assessment organizations or researchers working in other settings should be no more than 1,500 words, exclusive of up to two tables and 10 references and an abstract of 100 words or less. For submission details click here.
AWARDS
The CHITTA 2007 Award Winners are: Accenture; Initiate Systems; Clinicare; IBM; Borden Ladner Gervai. . . .for more click here.
Note from HCPRS: Entries for the 2008 Hygeia Awards are due February 29, 2008. If you are interested in participating in the review process please contact Jane at the National Office. Click here.
Chantale LeClerc, Chief Nursing Officer at SCO Health Service, is the recipient of the 2007 Nursing Leadership Award. Sponsored by Johnson and Johnson Medical Products
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Upcoming Events:
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
Recommended Reading: Nurse work-life, recruitment and retention
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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.
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December 3, 2007: Ottawa, ON. 2007 Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference. This year’s conference will address contemporary privacy concerns with the adoption of information technology in health care and health research. Some of this year’s themes will be: privacy enhancing technologies, how new technologies affect our privacy (eg RFIDs and nanotechnology), the public’s opinion, implementation of electronic health records, de-identification of clinical and DNA data, and global personal health data flows. For details click here.
December 3-4, 2007. Amsterdam, NL. Leadership Summit on Chronic Care. Focusing on practical information and actionable plans, the agenda includes best practice presentations from over 15 countries including the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, and the United States. 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.
December 4-6, 2007: Ottawa, ON. Health Human Resources 2007: Connecting Issues and People. This national conference will highlight the connections between health human resource (HHR) initiatives at the national, provincial, regional and local levels—and provide you with an opportunity to learn about current Canadian HHR research, planning, policies and programs. This conference will take a closer look at HHR policies, programs, planning and research through a focus on: data, research and knowledge translation; linking education with HHR; getting the right mix; and recruitment and retention. For details click here.
January 10-11, 2008: Miami, FL. Nursing Excellence: Bringing Best Evidence to the Point of Care. This inaugural South Florida Winter Evidence-Based Nursing Conference will spotlight nursing excellence and evidence based practice. This conference will be of interest to nurses in practice positions, researcher practice projects, educators engaged in curriculum change and administrators committed to achieving excellence. The primary purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for advancing the goal of nursing excellence through bringing best evidence to the point of care. 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.
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Jennifer Zelmer to Chief Executive Officer of the Management Board of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) effective February 1st 2008.
Dr. Eric Letovsky to Lead, LHIN Emergency Department (ED), The Mississauga Halton (ON) LHIN.
Mary Beth Montcalm, President and CEO, Providence Healthcare, (ON) to retire effective July 2008.
Dr. Charlene Robertson to Clinical Director, Pediatric Rehabilitation Outcomes, Evaluation and Research, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
And . . . the following Research Affiliates support the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Alberta – a five year commitment.
Dr. Patricia Wielandt to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Yolanta Pauk-Wydz to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Albert Cook to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Shawn Fraser to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Christian Beaulieu to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Gwendolyn Rempel to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Chris Westbury to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Edgar Vieira to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Katharina Kovacs Burns to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Samer Adeeb to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Tanya Berry to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Cary Brown to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr. Carol Boliek to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Andrea Van Damme to Research Affiliate, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
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