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Longwoods eLetter June 23, 2009
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“In the context of so many challenges, it is essential for health service providers, hospitals and regional health authorities to focus on becoming performance improvement leaders.” Dr. Jack Kitts comments in the book “Systems.”
If Canadians want to realize the benefits of electronic health records it's up to the public to demand them. By Richard Alvarez, President & CEO, Canada Health Infoway. From November 2007. More.
ESSAY 2
Mensch Ethics. By Neil Seeman
Well-intentioned healthcare providers can make mistakes but if they are virtuous – kind, truthful, compassionate, selfless, dedicated to their craft – then their actions are more likely than not to lead to good. More.
The eHealth Ontario Files | June 2009. More.
Gone South. Why Canadian nurses emigrate to the United States and are they interested in returning to work in Canada. By Linda McGillis Hall, George H. Pink, Cheryl Jones, Peggy Leatt, Michael Gates, Leah Pink, Jessica Peterson and Lisa Seto. More.
The Effect of Evidence-Based Drug Coverage policies on Pharmaceutical R&D: A Case Study from British Columbia. By Steve Morgan and Colleen Cunningham. More.
Leadership for the Information Age: The Time for Action is Now. By Dorothy Pringle and Lynn Nagle. More.
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Patent Term Length on Research and Development and Drug Expenditures in Canada. By Paul Grootendorst and Livio Di Matteo. More.
What Worked and What We Learned in Deploying Ontario's Wait Time Information System
Hugh MacLeod, Alan Hudson, Sarah Kramer and Murray Martin. More.
What 'Patient-Centered' Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist. by Donald M. Berwick (IHI)
"Patient-centeredness" will involve some radical, unfamiliar, and disruptive shifts in control and power, out of the hands of those who give care and into the hands of those who receive it. Such a consumerist view of the quality of care, itself, has important differences from the more classical, professionally dominated definitions of "quality." The concept of the medical home (a practice team that coordinates a person's care across episodes and specialties) is now reaching center stage in proposals for redesign of the U.S. health care system. More. (HealthAffairs. Open access not available.)
INFLUENZA: RESOURCES
World Health Organization. More.
Public Health Agency of Canada: Human Swine Influenza – Latest updates. More + their site Fight Flu. More.
Up to the minute news on Swine Flu. More. New.
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Healthcare Quarterly
Leading Lean: A Canadian Healthcare Leader's Guide
Benjamin A. Fine, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam and Dante Morra
HealthcarePapers
A University Challenge: Responding to Continuing Professional Education and Development Needs
Sharon Mickan
Nursing Leadership
Perceptions of the Role of the Registered Nurse in an Urban Interprofessional Academic Family Practice Setting
Jennifer Akeroyd, Ivy Oandasan, Ann Alsaffar, Cynthia Whitehead and Lorelei Lingard
Healthcare Policy
"An Honest Tale Speeds Best, Being Plainly Told": Another Look at Health Spending and the Supply of Physicians
Darrell Thomson and Jonathan D. Agnew
Electronic Healthcare
IT Solutions for Patient Safety - Best Practices for Successful Implementation in Healthcare
Peggy Leatt, Chris Shea, Melanie Studer and Virginia Wang
World Health and Population
Mental Health Symptoms among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: A Comparison with Their Urban and Rural Counterparts
Xiaoming Li, Bonita Stanton, Xiaoyi Fang, Qing Xiong, Shuli Yu, Danhua Lin, Yan Hong, Liying Zhang, Xinguang Chen and Bo Wang
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Past Presentations
Breakfast with the Chiefs video from Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - Toronto
Tom Closson, President and CEO, Ontario Hospital Association (Runtime: 58:47)
The Five Most Important Ideas to Improve Ontario Healthcare.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAS
Breakfast with the Chiefs video from Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Toronto
Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, (Runtime: 56:36)
The Day We Stop Caring
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, IBM, HPME, University of Toronto, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Breakfast with the Chiefs video from Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Toronto
Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré, Vice President, Professional Affairs & Chief Nurse Executive, UHN (Runtime: 48:27)
Investment as a Deficit Reduction Strategy - Getting to No Vacancies in a Global Nursing Shortage
Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations, CGI, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, HPME - University of Toronto
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September 29-30, 2009: Edmonton, AB. 2nd Annual Medical Device Sterilization Forum: Infection Prevention and Control through Safe Sterilization and Reprocessing Practices Presented jointly by CSA and Accreditation Canada, this two-day forum will provide healthcare decision makers, administrators and their reprocessing staff with the knowledge, tools and operational recommendations to help develop and implement an effective infection prevention and control program through safe sterilization and reprocessing practices. For more information click here.
Jim Flett to Chief Operating Officer, Kingston General Hospital (ON)
Shannon Graham to Vice President People & Organizational Effectiveness, Kingston General Hospital (ON)
Dr. David Zelt to Vice President Medical Administration & Chief of Staff, Kingston General Hospital (ON)
J’Neene Hauck to Chief Financial Officer, Kingston General Hospital (ON)
Mike Conroy to Alberta Health Services as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Services.
Dr. Larry Chambers (Sisters of Charity – Ottawa) to the Board of Directors, the Change Foundation
Susan Piggott (CAMH) to the Board of Directors, the Change Foundation
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