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“We need to consciously change culture and clinical practice.” Will Falk reviews Graham Scott’s report on Infoway.
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Canadian Chief Executive Officers’ Prescription for Higher Quality: More Clinical Engagement, Shared Accountability and Capacity Development. Mark J. Dobrow, Jasmine Neeson and Terrence Sullivan
Off the Cuff
Here’s our current survey of salary disclosures available online
Healthcare spending is skyrocketing in Canada and governments are struggling to find the money to pay for it. Download the report by Will Falk, Matthew Mendelsohn, Josh Hjartarson and Alex Stoutley
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Longwoods will forward you six online ePublications developed for the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and Accreditation Canada. The Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Ross Baker from the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. All materials are available to you at no cost. The first five ePubs are available now. The sixth is being prepared for publication early in 2012. Simply reply to ahart@longwoods.com and you will receive access. Especially useful for your own web page or intranet..
Here is one of many photos that come from our “events” photographer. We are stymied. Please help us identify these gentlemen. Write to: thepublisher@longwoods.com
A politician’s perspective on the transformation in healthcare. George Smitherman presents his new LHIN policies to a senior executive crowd.
Recommended Reading
Healthcare Quarterly
Patient Education as a Strategy for Provider Education and Engagement
Tina Saryeddine, Charissa Levy, Aileen Davis, John Flannery, Susan Jaglal, Laurie Hurley, Rhona McGlasson and Nizar Mahomed
HealthcarePapers
Healthcare Provider Education: From Institutional Boxes to Dynamic Networks
George Eisler
Nursing Leadership
Interprofessional Education for Collaborative, Patient-Centred Practice
John H.V. Gilbert
Healthcare Policy
To Boldly Go: A Partnership Enterprise to Produce Applied Health and Nursing Services Researchers in Canada
Patricia Conrad
Electronic Healthcare
Health Informatics Education in Canada – What’s Ahead?
Francis Lau
World Health & Population
Making Non-discrimination and Equal Opportunity a Reality
Constance Newman, Anastasiah Kimeu, Leigh Shamblin, topher Penders, Pamela A. McQuide and Judith Bwonya
News
- North American first at the Montreal Heart Institute: A patient treated with a disappearing heart device
- Improving Patient Care through Innovative Health Research
- The Change Foundation to Ontario Government: Here’s how to create Winning Conditions
- Headwaters Selected to Share Quality Improvements in Patient Care at National Healthcare
- Rick Hansen Foundation celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- Canadians want strategic approach based on common principles to improve health care
- More…
Breakfast with the Chiefs
Registration Now Open!
Tom Closson’s “In conclusion . . .”
January 11, 2012, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Sponsors: Accenture, Baxter, Sanofi aventis
Conferences
- December 8 & 9, 2011: Toronto, ON. Social Media/Health Care Communications
- December 12, 2011: Webinar. Upcoming Requirements for Hospitals under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- January 27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Inaugural Patient-Centered Care Symposium
- February 3-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. National Institute on Nursing Informatics
- February 13, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advanced Health Leadership Program – Rotman School of Management
- February 15, 2012; Montreal, QC. 2012 CEO Forum
- February 28-29, 2012: Vancouver BC. Will paying the piper change the tune? Promise and pitfalls of healthcare funding reform
- March 1-2, 2012: Vancouver, BC. Mastering the Art and Science of Healthy Work Environments, QWQHC 6th Annual Summit
- April 2-4, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Public Health Convention
- April 13-14, 2012: Ottawa , ON. CMA and CSPE Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership
- April 25-27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advances in Health Informatics Conference – call for papers now open
- May 29-31, 2012: Toronto, ON. Annual CAHSPR Conference – Call for Abstracts
- June 4-5, 2012: Halifax, NS. National Health Leadership Conference
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Transitions
Douglas Meggison retires Policy Analyst Health Sciences Association of Alberta
Arthur Porter resigned from McGill University health Centre
Normand Rinfret MUHC’s associate executive director, to interim director general and CEO, McGill University Health Centre
Dr. Walter P. Wodchis to Research Advisor NRCPicker Canada
Ru Taggar to Interim Chief Nursing Executive, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Featured Careers
- Full Time Manager – Health, Safety & Wellness – Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Peterborough, ON
- Coordinator, IVR, BMD & Radiology Reception, LHSC London ON
- Program Director, Surgery – Humber River Regional Hospital, Downsview, ON
- Clinical Practice Leader – Critical Care – Humber River Regional Hospital, Downsview, ON
- Director, Wormen’s and Children’s Healthcare – Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, ON
- Program Director, Community Services – Kingston Community Health Centre, Kingston, ON
- Managing Director – Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
- Directors – Mississauga Halton Community Care Access Centre, Mississauga, ON
- Chief of Staff – Georgian Bay General Hospital, Midland ON
- Chief of Medicine and Program Medical Director and Chief of Anaesthesia – North York General Hospital, Toronto, ON
- Executive Director, Clinical Programs and Operations, Critical Care, Emergency, Trauma & Abbotsford Regional Hospital, Fraser Health, BC
- President & Chief Executive Officer – The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga, ON
- President & Chief Executive Officer – Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc., Fort Francis, ON
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