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Throwback Thursday (#TBT) Healthcare Institution Partnerships – the Ethical Perspective

By Joseph Mapa (then Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer Mount Sinai Hospital) Here is addresses questions such as: Can one hospital can retain its values (denominational, cultural, community, etc.) when it partners with another hospital that doesn’t share them?; What are the rites, rituals and myths?; Are the consumers in the community being served, […]

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Throw Back Thursday (TBT) – Effective Teamwork in Healthcare: Research and Reality

#TBT – Effective Teamwork in Healthcare: Research and Reality This lead essay from the January 2007 issue of Healthcare Papers is still one of the best read articles on longwoods.com. “In healthcare, teamwork is the ongoing process of interaction between team members as they work together to provide care to patients. The researchers found that while teamwork and collaboration are […]

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Throw Back Thursday (TBT) – Intermountain Healthcare

#TBT – Chapter 5: Intermountain Healthcare – Salt Lake City, Utah, US High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design October 2008: 152-177 reports on Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) – “IHC’s reputation for clinical excellence is based on a strong foundation of evidence-based medicine and clinical process management that has resulted in dramatic improvements in patient […]

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Throw Back Thursday (TBT) – Profile on Dorothy Wylie

August 18 #TBT – Profile on Dorothy Wylie Dorothy Wylie passed away this week. In 2003 Nursing Leadership did a profile on her by Anita Dubey. “She taught all of us to take risks, but to take them in an informed fashion … She created opportunities for me to succeed and never asked for anything […]

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Throwback Thursday (#TBT) – Listening to Those We Seek to Help

Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation writes a chapter for the book Lessons Learned showcasing a lesson for research teams from the […]

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Throwback Thursday (#TBT) – David Levine at Breakfast with the Chiefs

Managing Healthcare Systems – Complex Systems (video). David Levine, then Chief Executive Officer of the Montreal Regional Health Authority discusses Where are we now in Quebec from 2005 to 2010. And what did he learn from trying to put an integrated healthcare system in place.

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Throwback Thursday (#TBT) – The Linked Person Record: Managing the Cancer System through Data Integration

A 2009 white paper written by Darren Edery, CEO of Adastra Canada. “The Linked Person Record for Cancer, developed for Cancer Care Ontario in 2007-2008, represents the kind of innovation required if healthcare information is to take advantage of advances in information management.” http://www.longwoods.com/product/download/code/20758

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Throwback Thursday (#TBT) – An Evidence-Based Policy Prescription for an Aging Population

An Evidence-Based Policy Prescription for an Aging Population  Neena L. Chappell and Marcus J. Hollander start off this 2011 issue of HealthcarePapers by providing a policy prescription for Canada’s aging population. The authors present data and policy commentary on the following topics: ageism, healthy communities, prevention, unpaid caregivers and integrated systems of care delivery. Commentary […]

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Throwback Thursday (#TBT) Jennifer Zelmer: Healthcare Policy’s New Editor-in-Chief (Volume 4, Issue 4 June 2009)

“If the members of this community are to understand what is happening in healthcare and in society, and if they are presented with credible options and alternatives to respond, she (Jennifer) will serve them well. If she can move them to action, she will be an inspiration.” – Anton Hart, Publisher http://www.longwoods.com/content/20814

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Throwback Thursday (#TBT) – Privacy Has Lost its “Cool Factor”…

Neil Seeman writes about how “Social networking sites such as Facebook, Linkedin, analysis Twitter and MySpace trade off people’s growing willingness to disclose details about their personal lives, accomplishments…and their failures.” http://www.longwoods.com/content/20639

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