Longwoods Blog
Definition*
Delayering: Removal of layers of management deemed unnecessary; intended to increase the speed of decision making and improve responsiveness to customers/patients.
Essays
From ehealth to mhealth: Celebrating the mobile phone at 5 billion by Neil Seeman. The next time a vendor proposes any tool to improve healthcare, ask her about its applicability for the mobile phone. If she does not have an ‘mhealth’ application, ask why …
Capitalism 4.0: Re-Designing Business Value: A Roadmap for Sustainable Consumption.
Off the Cuff
Dr. Barry McLellan has been granted an extension to prepare a highly anticipated report on his team’s investigation of surgical and pathology errors in Windsor, Ontario. He asked Health Minister Deb Matthews to push the deadline back to July 31. Read more here:
In preparation for this report:
- Manitoba woman has breast lump removed unnecessarily after medical mixup
- Woman denies surgeon’s claim
- Reply to Heartwell’s statement of defence (PDF)
- Dr. Barbara Heartwell’s statement of defence (PDF)
- Breast patient lawsuit upheld
- Windsor’s Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital urges speedier probe of Dr. Barbara Heartwell
- Gallery: Windsor surgeon seeks reinstatement
BC Patient Safety & Quality Council (BCPSQC) professional development program to develop leaders in quality and safety initiatives for British Columbia
- Positive Deviance News: With views from the Trenches! Aug 26, 2010
- Building a Recipe for Success – Tips and Learning from Teams on Implementing the Surgical Checklist Sept 2, 2010
- Accreditation Canada – Background on Required Organizational Practices, Oct 7, 2010
- A Human Factors Approach to Device Procurement, Oct 14, 2010
CPSI has released its Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety Toolkit detailing governance best practices and processes known to be effective in improving quality and safety. Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety Toolkit
Call for Innovations
Do you have a mhealth application that “lifts innovation at breathtaking speed and at very low cost?” Does it improve healthcare, public health and living conditions? Send us a description. We want to hear about it and will feature all submissions that pass the smell test*. Send this to ahart@longwoods.com. We will review your application with the Health Strategy Innovation Cell based at Massey College at the University of Toronto. We will share accepted applications by eLetter, web, twitter, text, facebook and other social media.
* A metaphoric test applied by ordinary but clever people used to determine the legitimacy or authenticity of an idea.
The Margret Comack Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership acknowledges outstanding leadership of an nurse employed in a member organization of OHA.
Nomination Deadline: July 31, 2010
The Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education is given annually to individuals and organizations that inspire, advocate and enable education in health, health services and healthcare management. The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 27, 2010
Open Reading
From Cancer Care Ontario
Taking it to the Streets: Delivering on Deployment
Dafna Carr, Vickie Welch, Trish Fabik, Nadir Hirji and Casey O’Connor
News
- Breakthrough Canadian Allergy Prevalence Data Published
- Economic analysis show Ontario’s H1N1 vaccination plan prevented 1M cases
- Diabetes shouldn’t deter young athletes: York U study
- Future HIV Vaccines: If We Build It, Will They Come?
- Comparing health care quality, access and patient satisfaction across Canada
Our Editors Recommend
Healthcare Quarterly
Advancing the Chronic Care Road Map: A Contemporary Overview
Sara Ahmed, Amede Gogovor, Mylene Kosseim, Lise Poissant, Richard Riopelle, Maureen Simmonds, Marilyn Krelenbaum and Terrence Montague
HealthcarePapers
An Inconvenient Truth: A Sustainable Healthcare System Requires Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Transformation
Matthew W. Morgan, Nicholas E. Zamora and Michael F. Hindmarsh
Nursing Leadership
The Nursing Human Resource Planning Best Practice Toolkit: Creating a Best Practice Resource for Nursing Managers
Leslie Vincent and Mary Agnes Beduz
Healthcare Policy
Anthropological Approach to Adherence Factors for Antihypertensive Drug Therapy
Aline Sarradon-Eck, Marc Egrot, Marie Anne Blanc and Murielle Faure
Electronic Healthcare
Genomic Medicine in Healthcare – The Tip of the Iceberg
Aditya Pai
World Health and Population
Humanitarian Response Following the Earthquake in Haiti: Reflections on Unprecedented Need for Rehabilitation
Michel D. Landry, Mandy McGlynn, Edith Ng, Angie Andreoli, Tess Devji, Cheryl Bower, Anita Goyal, Sylvia Haycock, Jamie A. Young, Diane Leber, Kristina Guy, Anita Vanderwerf, Jackie Wright, Suzanne Iafolla, Ian M. Horne and Anthony S. Burns
Breakfast with the Chiefs
Plans are underway for the 2010/2011 season starting in September 2010. Watch this space for announcements of upcoming sessions
Past Presentations can be found here.
All Audio and Video Presentations can be found here.
The small print: Breakfast with the Chiefs registration requirements: Do you work at a publicly funded organization? If so, you must hold a current personal subscription to at least one Longwoods journal. This covers attendance for the full season. If you are not a subscriber, go here first. If you are a subscriber, go to this page for information on upcoming speakers.
Registrants from private sector organizations, foundations and associations must be registered members of the Longwoods HealthcareBoard. If you are not sure of your status and want more information please contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com
For sponsorship information, please contact Matthew Hart at 416-864-9667 x113 or email mhart@longwoods.com
Conferences and Events
September 13, 2010: Greensboro, NC. NCHICA’s 16th Annual Conference and Exhibition
September 27-28, 2010: Toronto, ON. Lean In Healthcare, From Concept to Reality – Putting Lean into Practice
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
Transitions
Louise Lemieux-Charles to Interim Director of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Interim Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences. Will continue to hold the position of Chair of the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, all at University of Toronto.
Morag McLean, Shared Vice President, People Services & Organizational Effectiveness Trillium Health Centre and Credit Valley Hospital
Sheryl Feagan to the Board of the South West Local Health Integration Network, Ontario
Brian Rolfes to Partner, McKinsey & Company
Pooneh Baghai to Director, McKinsey & Company
Careers
Today’s Leadership Careers
- Vice President & Chief Operating Officer – The Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
- Coordinator, Governance Centre of Excellence Educational Services Division – OHA, Toronto, ON
- Senior Manager, Risk, Safety & Privacy – Toronto Central CCAC, Toronto, ON
- Coordinator, Surgical Oncology – Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON
- Chief of Staff & Medical Director – St. John’s Rehab, Toronto, ON
- Manager, Events & Learning Programs – Longwoods Publishing, Toronto, ON
- Senior Policy Advisers – MOHLTC, Toronto, ON
- Policy Analyst – MOHLTC, Toronto, ON
- Consultant, Physician and Professional Issues Policy and Public Affairs Division, OHA, Toronto, ON
- Consultant, Employee Relations Strategic HR Management Division, OHA, Toronto, ON
- President & CEO – The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, Toronto, ON
- President & CEO – York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill, ON
- Senior HR Professional – OSMH, Orillia, ON
- Registered Nurses Emergency/ICU float – Timmins and District Hospital, Timmins, ON
- RN, Program Nurse, Vascular Improvement Program – Interior Health, Kamloops, BC
- Wound Care Nurse – Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Scarborough, ON
- Clinical Nurse Specialist, Renal Program – St Paul’s Hospital- Providence Health Care, BC
- Critical Care Nurses – Multiple Positions – Fraser Health, BC
- Emergency Room Nurses – Multiple Positions – Fraser Health, BC
- Nurse Practitioner – Niagara Health Region, ON
- RNs, Surgical Services (OR) – Vancouver, BC
- Clinical Resource Nurse, Markham, ON
- Mental Health Nurses, RNs, and Part-time Visiting Nursing – Toronto, ON
- RN Opportunities available in Windsor & Essex County, ON
- Registered Nurses, Emergency – Niagara Health System
- Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Cardiac Sciences – BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC
- RN, Clinical Practice Educator (OR) – Interior Health, Vernon, BC
- Registered Nurse, Maternal/Child – Interior Health, Salmon Arm, BC
- Nurse Practitioner, Provincial Mental Health Metabolic Clinic – BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, Vancouver. BC
- RN, Patient Care Coordinator (ICU) – Interior Health, Penticton, BC
- And Many More
Longwoods has a portal of more than 50 participating healthcare recruitment centres. Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com
*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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