Definition*

Consumer/patient: in some cases when people talk of consumers/patients they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed as (for example) in-patient/out-patient. However there is a trend to individualize the concept. Instead of generating broad demographic profiles and psycho-graphic profiles of market segments, healthcare policy makers and providers have started to engage in personalization and mass customization often driven by electronic media.

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Essays

Perhaps I Am One of the Lucky Ones. Michael Heenan asks “Why is it that the sector continues to say that physician engagement is a challenge for hospital administration when my experience suggests otherwise?”
Will you be a great grandparent? How would you change your behavior if, at age 30, you knew you would live to age 105? Neil Seeman discusses longevity in his essay “The Great Grandparenthood Boom, Predictive Irrationality and the Future of Caregiving”

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Off the Cuff

Paul Castonguay is raising money for Parkinson’s. He is a one-man band motivated by extreme enthusiasm who mobilized some of his fine friends for a good cause. Now that he’s been covered in The Globe and Mail his peloton is getting lots of visibility — more than a dozen other publications picked up the story by syndication. Lesson? Media matters.

Since the CBC covered it I thought we should: Large, hairy perennial turns skin a blistering red. See it here.

OK you’re on vacation and promised yourself to get caught up with the presentations by Dr. Bob Bell, Adalstein Brown, Ross Baker, Mary Jo Haddad, Deb Matthews, and so many others. Here they are – and more.

Implementing Interprofessional Care in Ontario – Just launched by HealthForceOntario.

Vendor Engagement (opportunity) for Drug Information System and ePrescribing in Ontario

Here are last week’s best read papers/articles:

• Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Innovation – and Hot Air
• Transformational Leadership to Promote Cross-Generational Retention
• Workplace Rudeness: A New Pandemic?
• The Greatest Checklist
• Research: Evidence-based Nursing Practice: How to Get There from Here
• New Brunswick’s E-health Strategy and the Evolution of Regionalization
• My Rage against the Machine (and what Healthcare can Learn from Steve Jobs)
• Apples or BlackBerrys? Clinical Use and Evaluation of the iPhone Platform in a BlackBerry-Dominated Hospital Environment
• This Just In: Systems Designed to Fail, Fail
• Team Effectiveness in Primary Care Networks in Alberta

It’s Summer But they’re Still Recruiting:

• President and Chief Executive Officer  – The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, Toronto, ON
• President & CEO – York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill, ON
• Clinical Manager – Edmonton, AB
• Clinical Services Manager – DRHC, Dauphin, MB
• Senior HR Professional – OSMH, Orillia, ON
• Performance Improvement Specialist/Industrial Engineer Quality & Patient Safety Department – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
• Patient Safety/Emergency Preparedness Leader Quality & Patient Safety Department – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
• Director, Human Resources-Organizational Development – Central West CCAC, Brampton, ON
• Senior Director Performance Management & Accountability – Central West CCAC, Brampton, ON
• Chief Research Officer, CCFC – Toronto, ON

The Global Accelerator Award™ has been awarded to SAMSHA, in collaboration with the Ad Council. Details are here

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) wins the 3M Health Information Management (HIM) Team Quality Award presented by the Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA)

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Open Reading

From Pharmacy.ca
Inappropriate Prescribing Practices: The Challenge and Opportunity for Patient Safety
Laurel K. Taylor, Yuko Kawasumi, Gillian Bartlett and Robyn Tamblyn

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News

• Comparing health care quality, access and patient satisfaction across Canada
• Chronic Underfunding in Research Related to HIV Prevention in Québec
• OSDUHS Mental Health and Well-Being Report Released Today
• Long-term Effects of Women’s Cancer Drugs to be Studied
• Canadian Pharmacists Association Applauds BC Announcement on Generic Drug Price Reform and Pharmacy Services
• Maureen Bisognano to CEO of IHI
• Berwick to Medicare – Obama
• Rural family physicians twice as likely to accept new patients as those in larger cities
• Saint Elizabeth Health Care CEO Recognized for Innovative Leadership
• HPV Infection of Airway Measured

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Our Editors Recommend

Healthcare Quarterly
Andrew Szende and the Development of the electronic Child Health Network (eCHN)
Morgan Holmes

HealthcarePapers
The Health System and International Recruitment
Sandra MacDonald-Rencz and Janet Davies

Nursing Leadership
Development and Evaluation of an RN/RPN Utilization Toolkit
Margaret Blastorah, Kim Alvarado, Lenora Duhn, Frances Flint, Petrina McGrath and Susan VanDeVelde-Coke

Healthcare Policy
Equitable Access to Healthcare Services and Income Replacement for Cancer: Is Critical Illness Insurance a Help or a Hindrance?
Christopher J. Longo

Electronic Healthcare
New Brunswick’s E-health Strategy and the Evolution of Regionalization
Patrick Powers

World Health and Population
Adults with Chronic Cough in Urban Bangladesh: Healthcare Utilization and Management of Cases by Private Practitioners
S. Hossain, C. P. Larson, M. A. Quaiyum, A. I. Khan, K. Zaman, V. Begum and N. C. Saha

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Breakfast with the Chiefs

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Conferences and Events

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

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Transitions

George Fieber has been appointed President, CNO Council
Kris Voycey has been appointed Vice-President, CNO Council
Monica Seawright has been appointed Vice-President, CNO Council
Susan McIsaac to President, United Way Toronto
Randall Sach to Director, international programs, Habitat for Humanity Canada
Greg Coutts to the TELUS Team, leading sales in Western Canada for the Health Solutions group

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Careers

Today’s Leadership Careers

• President and Chief Executive Officer  – The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, Toronto, ON
• President & CEO – York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill, ON
• Clinical Manager – Edmonton, AB
• Clinical Services Manager – DRHC, Dauphin, MB
• Senior HR Professional – OSMH, Orillia, ON
• Performance Improvement Specialist/Industrial Engineer Quality & Patient Safety Department – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
• Patient Safety/Emergency Preparedness Leader Quality & Patient Safety Department – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
• Director, Human Resources-Organizational Development – Central West CCAC, Brampton, ON
• Senior Director Performance Management & Accountability – Central West CCAC, Brampton, ON
• Chief Research Officer, CCFC – Toronto, ON

Longwoods has a portal of more than 50 participating healthcare recruitment centres. Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com

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*Definitions refer in part to terminology from the The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: a desk reference for the curious mind – Glossary of Business Terms modified to reflect healthcare administration and practices.

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