Quote

“There is a need to consistently assess the use of . . . EMRs.” Morgan Price, Francis Lau and James Lai

Essays

Few people have ever accused Myrna Francis, Dick Alvarez and their executive teams at Infoway of being too nice. So what did they really achieve during their first decade? Will Falk tells all.

Off the Cuff

Where do you stand? Hospital Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scores for Canadian acute care facilities – Q1.

Do your health records show one patient with “a mouse under her eye” while another calls it a contusion or maybe a hematoma? See what these correspondents have to say about that:

• Letter from Dr. Matthew Morgan, Mount Sinai Hospital
• Responding Letter from Lydia Lee, on behalf of COACH
• Responding Letter from Dennis Giokas, on behalf of Infoway

(Do you appropriately) govern the policies, processes, roles and responsibilities established to protect personal health information? Here’s one answer.

More about e-health in Canada can be found here.

Mapping the field: Nursing scholarship in health human resources. download here.

Breakfast with the Chiefs June/September/October/November/December

Dr. Bob Howard’s review of the design, delivery and enterprise-wide buy-in of the quality of care program at St. Michael’s caps this year’s season of Breakfasts with the Chiefs. Its next week, June 7th at the technocentre of knowledge – the new Li Ka Shing Institute 209 Victoria St. A room designed to inspire you. Join us at 209 Victoria St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Register here for this program.

Next year we will focus on the future of healthcare in Canada.
We will hear about the emerged power of the patient (in this one-hour session you will hear from a nurse, a physician, an administrator, a philosopher and an advocate.) Then its telehealth as the primary provider of most of our care in our own environment. Also scheduled is a diametrically opposed solution that proposes “big box” primary care – with all facilities and expertise co-located. Think of all possible clinicians, diagnostics, therapeutic support and the latest technology under one roof. Many of them. Join our distribution list: register here for all announcements.

This would be funny if it was not so so sad….

Our Editors Recommend

• Facing the Challenge of Care for Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada: A Critical Commentary, Five Suggestions for Change and a Call to Action by Stan Kutcher
• Guest Editorial: Mental Health and the Workplace: Towards a Research Agenda in Canada by Alain Lesage, Carolyn S. Dewa, Jean-Yves Savoie, Rémi Quirion and John Frank
• The Power behind Empowerment for Staff Nurses: Using Foucault’s Concepts by Sonia A. Udod
• Adapting the Balanced Scorecard for Mental Health and Addictions: An Inpatient Example by Elizabeth Lin and Janet Durbin
• CPOE and eMAR Implementation Metrics at a Community Hospital by Nasrin Samji and Pegi Rappaport
• Social Stigma and Mental Health among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: A Conceptual Framework and Future Research Needs by Xiaoming Li, Bonita Stanton, Xiaoyi Fang and Danhua Lin

Our Readers Recommend

• Effective Teamwork in Healthcare: Research and Reality
• How Do We Compare? Lifting Our Game on Healthcare Performance
• Research: Evidence-based Nursing Practice: How to Get There from Here
• The State of Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada: Past Problems and Future Fantasies
• From Chaos to Quality Care: Selections from an Interview with Jack Kitts
• Leading Quality through the Development of a Multi-year Corporate Quality Plan: Sharing The Ottawa Hospital Experience
• Transfer of Accountability: Transforming Shift Handover to Enhance Patient Safety
• Is It Worthwhile to Invest in Home Care?
• Aging in Ontario: Using Population-Based Data in the Evaluation of Trends in Health System Use
• Implementing Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC): Lessons from an Early Adopter Site

News

• MED2020 Health Care Software Inc. forms collaboration with CriticalControl Solutions Inc.
• Book Honours U of T Nursing Research Pioneer
• Rising Obesity Rates Pose a Growing Risk to Canadian Health
• Registered nurses launch Expert Commission on health system renewal
• Ontario Cardiac Team Celebrates North American First
• Better Emergency Room Services for Ontario Patients
• Access to Care Provides Ontario with Near-Real-Time Picture of Patient Flow
• OCP Appoints New Registrar
• More…

Breakfast with the Chiefs

Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Dr. Robert (Bob) Howard, President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Michael’s Hospital
Topic: From Quality 101 to Quality No. 1
Location: St Michael’s Hospital Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sponsors: Accenture, IBM, Baxter, CGI, KPMG, and PwC
Register here

Upcoming Speakers – Details and registration will be announced in this space soon or sign up for New Events Alerts to be the first to know

Dr. Robert Bell, Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré and Sholom Glouberman – September 22, 2011

Past Presentations can be found here.  All Audio and Video Presentations can be found here.

Conferences

• June 1, 2011: Toronto, ON. A Dialogue with Tom Closson
• June 6, 2011: Alberta. Accelerating Primary Care – Call for Abstracts
• June 6-7, 2011: Whistler, BC. National Healthcare Leadership Conference (NHLC) / Conférence nationale sur le leadership dans les soins de santé (CNLSS)
• June 9-10, 2011: Toronto, ON. Physician Leadership Summit
• June 15, 2011: Toronto, ON. Care Delivery 2.0: Moving Beyond Hospital Walls
• June 16 – 17, 2011: Toronto, ON.  A Call to Action on ER/ALC: Promoting Effective Care Across the Health Continuum
• June 17-19, 2011: Waterloo, ON. Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp
• June 22-24, 2011: Toronto, ON. OACCAC Knowledge and Inspiration 2011
• June 30, 2011: Toronto, ON. National Case Management Network of Canada – Call for Abstracts

Add your conference to the Longwoods eLetter here
Conferences on the Longwoods site
Ontario Hospital Association conferences.
Events in Global Health at the University of North Carolina

For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

Mary Jo Haddad, President and CEO of SickKids formally welcomed as a Member of the Order of Canada on May 27, 2011
Jeremy Butteriss to Google Canada as Director, Strategic Partnerships
Britt Andersen to CEO Coast Mental Health Foundation, Vancouver
Gregory Sorensen, MD, to Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Healthcare, U.S.A & Canada
Geneviève Lavertu to Director, Legal, Scientific Affairs and Business Development, Medtronic of Canada Ltd.:
Jon Olsen to Senior Director, Cardiac and Vascular Group, Medtronic of Canada Ltd.:
Terry Finley to Senior Director, Head, Neck & Spine, Medtronic of Canada Ltd.
Mike Carter to Chief Administrative Officer, Swedish Medical Center’s First Hill campus, Seattle,
Douglas Arnold to CEO of Helen Keller Hospital, Sheffield, Ala.
Bill Wing to Senior VIce President for system performance and strategy, Adventist Health, Roseville, Calif.
Erik Wexler to President and CEO of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass
Josie Walsh to President and Chief Executive Officer, Providence Healthcare, Toronto ON
Dr. Tara Allen to Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq reappointed to Minister of Health, Government of Canada.

Send your transitions to transitions@longwoods.com
See more Transitions here.

Awards

Health Innovation Award Winners: From the Health Council of Canada

1. Frank Ka-Shing Leung and Allison Mariko Nakanishi. Virtual Patient Teaching Tools: An Innovative Model to Enhance Canada’s Health Care Education. 1st place Team entries: University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC).
2. Jessica Hooper, Holly Knight and Kelly Quinn. Safe Injection Facilities: How InSite Provides Insight into What the Rest of Canada Needs. 2nd place | Team entries: University of New Brunswick (Saint John, NB).
3. Kolten MacDonell. The Innovative Approach of HEAL Cape Breton as a Community-wide Health Promotion Initiative within Cape Breton District Health Authority. 1st place. Individual entries: St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, NS).
4. Stacey Redl. The Final Battle: Pioneers in End-of-Life Care. 2nd place. Individual entries: Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC).
5. Kathryn Nicholson. Student Ambassador Prize: University of Western Ontario.

Featured Careers

See the entire list of leadership and nursing careers at Jobs.Longwoods.com

• Community Health Care Manager, Client Services – Community Care Access Centre, Brampton, ON
• Director of Finance – Humber River Regional Hospital,Toronto, ON
• Project Manager – Consolidated Health Informatiion Services, Windsor, ON
• Service Manager – Consolidated Health Informatiion Services, Windsor, ON
• Director, Mental Health Program – Halton Healthcare Services, Oakville, ON
• Chief Executive Officer – Medbuy, London, ON
• CEO / Executive Director – Newfoundland and Labrador Health Boards Association, St. John’s, NL

For more information or to post a position go to Jobs.Longwoods.com or email Susan Hale

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