What patients and families can do to enhance safety
March 10th, 2014Patient Safety What patients and families can do to enhance safety. Be Involved in Your Health Care: Provide an accurant and complete health history to the health care team. Participate in all decisions about your treatment. Use your correct legal name when identifying yourself at registration or admission. What you should know? You should understand [...]
Capital Spending in Healthcare: a Missed Opportunity for Improvement?
March 10th, 2014Click here to download the PDF
Building Today: infrastructure projects in Ontario
March 10th, 2014Working with all levels of government, Ontario is building our communities – our schools, hospitals, roads and bridges. This website provides information on more than 1,200 completed or soon to be completed infrastructure projects in your area and across the province, including: highways, roads, and bridges schools, colleges and universities hospitals community centers and recreation [...]
Palliative Care Training Courses – McGill Teaching Hospitals
March 7th, 2014Palliative Care Training Courses for volunteers are given twice a year, in the fall and the spring at one of the following McGill Teaching Hospitals, St. Mary’s Hospital, MUHC (Montreal General Hospital), Jewish General Hospital and Mount Sinai. These workshops are open to anyone interested in becoming a volunteer in Palliative Care as well as [...]
Unlocking creativity – A strategy for developement and peace in Northern Ireland by Sir Ken Robinson
March 7th, 2014Northern Ireland is going through a social and economic revolution. The replacement of traditional industries by a knowledge-based economy is part of an international movement that is transforming work patterns and the nature of skills required by our employees. We can be rightly proud of our role as a world leader in the previous industrial [...]
The Canadian Adverse Events Study: The Incidence of Adverse Events Among Hospital Patients in Canada
March 7th, 2014Baker, G.R, P.G. Norton, V. Flintoft et al. 2004. “The Canadian Adverse Events Study: The Incidence of Adverse Events Among Hospital Patients in Canada.” CMAJ 170(11): 1678-1686.
Letter from Richard Alvarez and Announcement from Graham Scott
March 3rd, 2014Dear Friends and Colleagues I am writing to let you know that I will be launching a new release, as we say in the IT business, in my life later this summer. I am stepping down as President and CEO of Canada Health Infoway, effective August 1, 2014 (see the message from Infoway Board Chair [...]
Hay Group to reveal findings and insights on Board compensation
February 21st, 2014Details here. Board compensation in the Canadian broader public sector presents a unique challenge for stakeholders. Organizations must ensure that the level of compensation for directors is aligned to an organization’s size and complexity in order to motivate performance while being fair. Fulfilling all of these requirements can be more of an art than a science. [...]
As World’s Kids Get Fatter, Doctors Turn to the Knife
February 17th, 2014The Publisher Online* Over a long weekend I often pick up a newspaper from London, Calgary, St. John’s, Amsterdam or somewhere else. It provides insight I find interesting and often tweet (see @elongwoods). From time to time I will draw your attention to some of the news and stories that matter and come from independent [...]
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