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“Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) have neither the information nor the resources . . . to know whether these agencies are ensuring that people with addictions are being identified and are receiving the treatment they need.” Ontario’s Auditor General Reports. (PDF)
“Power corrupts, and we have given organized medicine too much power.” Steven Lewis. Click here for his essay: Spare the Policy, Spoil the Profession.
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They will be joining our other corporate members: 3M Healthcare, Accenture, AGFA, Baxter, Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG), Cerner, CGI, Courtyard Group, Clarity Healthcare-Consulting Cadre, Emergis, HayGroup, HP Canada, Healthtech, IBM, Johnson and Johnson Medical Products, Medtronic, McKesson Canada, Microsoft, Pharmacy.ca, Philips Healthcare, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ray & Berndtson, Roche, SAS, Sodexo, Strata Health.
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Daily Health and Healthcare News. Compiled by our Editors and Canadian Press.
Flu trends - up to the minute updates from Google.
In 2007, 8.1% of occupational therapists in Canada were educated outside of Canada?. More at CIHI.
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En 2007, 8,1 % des ergothérapeutes au Canada avaient été formés à l'étranger?
Healthcare Quarterly
CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Healthy Healthcare Workplaces: Improving the Health and Work Environments of Professionals
Jennifer Thornhill and Mylène Dault
HealthcarePapers
Building Public Support for Anti-obesity Policy Initiatives
Bruce Silverglade
Nursing Leadership
A Critical Analysis of the Benefits and Limitations of an Applied Degree in Undergraduate Nursing Education
Leigh Chapman and Dale Kirby
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
The Information Management Strategy Cascade: Strategy-Based Performance Management of a Flu Recall Practice
Juliana Jackson, Karen Born, Jamie Read and Adalsteinn Brown
World Health and Population
Paediatric Health Economic Evaluations: A World View
Wendy J. Ungar
Breakfast With The Chiefs: Renewing Public Health in Ontario: The Role of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion with Vivek Goel, President and CEO, Agency for Health Protection and Promotion. Tuesday, November 18, 2008.
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2008/2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - Vancouver
Murray T. Martin and Cliff Nordal
Murray T. Martin is President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON. Cliff Nordal is 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, CGI, HP Canada, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - Toronto
Glenda Yeates, Graham Scott and Dr. Brian Postl
Glenda Yeates is President and CEO, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Graham Scott is Chair, CIHI. Dr. Brian Postl is CEO, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
Topic: TBA
Location: Toronto, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Ontario Hospital Association
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, CGI, Courtyard Group, HP Canada, Microsoft, Ontario Hospital Association
Friday, March 13, 2009 - Vancouver
Ida Goodreau, President & CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health
Topic: TBA
Location: Vancouver, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Sodexo
Monday, April 21, 2009 - Toronto
Mary Ferguson Pare, Vice President, Professional Affairs & Chief Nurse Executive UHN
Topic: TBA
Location: Toronto, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Ontario Hospital Association
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Toronto
Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Topic: TBA
Location: Toronto, venue: TBA
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association
Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs: Joseph D’Cruz, Professor, Rotman School of Management, Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Dr. Penny Ballem, Tom Closson, and the Honourable George Smitherman.
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.
Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Murray T. Martin, President and CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences, and Cliff Nordal, President and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health Care, London. Presented Thursday, December 4, 2008
Sponsors: Accenture, ACAHO, HPME, University of Toronto, Healthtech HP Canada, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare, Sodexo.
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February 8 – 10, 2009: Toronto, ON. Nursing Leadership Conference. For nurses in formal and informal leadership and management roles across all areas of nursing practice, as well as nursing and health administration students, consultants, policy decision-makers, CEOs and others with an interest in the leadership impacts of nursing. For conference and registration information, please 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 9 - 11, 2009: Edmonton, AB. Accelerating Primary Care Conference. After attending, delegates will be prepared to revolutionize their practices and policies to improve services and outcomes. New this year, the Alberta Interdisciplinary Primary Health Care Research Network will host a pre conference workshop that provides hands- on learning about implementing improvements in projects. 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]
Linda Miller to Deputy Minister, Alberta Health
Jennifer Zelmer to Editor in Chief of the journal Healthcare Policy
Maureen Solecki to interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Grey Bruce Health Services, ON
Robert Biron to President and Chief Executive Officer, Northumberland Hills Hospital, Cobourg, ON
Helen Brenner to Vice-President of Patient Services and Chief Nursing Executive, Northumberland Hills Hospital, Cobourg, ON
Siu Mee Cheng to Executive Director, Toronto Central Palliative Care Network.
Don Scott to President and CEO Joseph Brant Memorial in Oakville, (ON) to retire March 31, 2009.
Hugh Graham to Executive Director, Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston (ON), retired.
Dr. David Pichora to Interim Executive Director, Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston (ON)
Leacy O’Callaghan to Director, Advocacy, communications and Events, the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
[Don’t forget, we don’t make these up. Please send your promotions, appointments, retirements and other transitions to publisher@longwoods.com.] Our transitions come from sources we believe to be reliable. We do not guarantee that they are correct. But we are rarely wrong.
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Denis Protti was awarded the inaugural Canadian Health Leadership Network MacNaught-Taillon Leadership Award in Health Policy, Health Information & Health Informatics for his outstanding contributions to Canadian healthcare through emerging and exemplary leadership and mentorship. And . . . recognized by COACH for outstanding leadership in the Field of Health Informatics
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