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"It's a new world in terms of measuring quality of care. It's a brand new world." Dr. Peter McLaughlin, Peterborough [ON] Regional Health Centre Chief of Staff as quoted in the Peterborough Examiner in response to queries about HSMR
The Emotional Toll of Medical Mistakes (New York Times / New England Journal of Medicine)
Credit Valley Hospital Joins Colleagues at William Osler Health Centre and Halton Healthcare Now sharing patient information electronically
Clinician Adoption of Healthcare Information Technology by Camille Robinson, RN MS. This and more from the CNIA journal here.
Schedule of Payments to Suppliers of Goods and Services at VCH. [In one day last week more than 3500 individuals downloaded this PDF]
Another resource worth looking at . . . UHN [Toronto] Information Management Strategy 2009 (PDF)
From the Commonwealth Fund: Paying Attention to Performance Data. More
Chronic Care Symposium. December 7.07 at Dalhousie and Capital Health NS. Please Download PDF
Canada's top health researchers recognized. Please Download PDF
Hospitals Can Do Better to Help Kids with Asthma: a solution Click here
Corroding Superstructure by Hugh Segal, Senior Research Fellow at McMillan Binch Mendelsohn. Please Download PDF
From McGill’s Office for Science and Technology (PDF). What is the latest on lycopene?
BUSINESS NEWS
Health informatics industry pays tribute to Steven Huesing (PDF)
TELUS and Emergis have announced that TELUS has agreed to make an offer to acquire all the outstanding common shares of Emergis
BridgeHealth International Inc. has financing for a worldwide health care network model to serve medical tourism operations.
HSMR
HSMR (and more): the video. With Graham Scott: Chair of Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Glenda Yeates: CEO, CIHI. Includes a discussion with Lisa Priest and Dr. Bob Bell about Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio* (HSMR) and other areas of special interest.
Calgary Health Regions says: “HSMR can not provide a definitive evaluation of the quality of care provided by any facility or organization. The data is too high level and not designed to support that type of analysis,” cautions Dr. Ward Flemons, Vice-President, Quality, Safety and Health Information for the Calgary Health Region.
St. Michael’s Hospital says: “Hospitals across Canada have an obligation to improve their respective HSMRs,” Hospital president and CEO Jeff Lozon said. “With this new information, our Hospital will continually strive to monitor and improve our performance to bring about even higher standards in patient care.”
Hospital Mortality Trends in Canada | November 2007 Click here
Will Interests Collide or Fuse?
Great Minds in Dialogue at Breakfast with the Chiefs.
Tom Closson, the OHA’s CEO-in-Waiting meets Linda O'Brien-Pallas, the CHSRF/CIHR National Chair, Nursing Health Human Resources. This will be Tom’s first public appearance since his new appointment, giving Linda an exceptional opportunity to share her thoughts about the quality of nurses’ work-life -- with every hospital administrator’s official representative. When: Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Where: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street, Room 106, Toronto, ON. How: Click here to register.
See our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Graham Scott: Chair of Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Glenda Yeates: CEO, CIHI. Includes a discussion with Lisa Priest and Dr. Bob Bell about Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) and other areas of special interest. To view presentation click here
Call for Papers
Healthcare Policy/Politiques de Santé is now accepting submissions for Health Technology Briefs. This new section of the journal provides a forum for brief reports of health technology assessments and policy analyses that can inform Canadian health policy development and health system management. Submissions from health technology assessment organizations or researchers working in other settings should be no more than 1,500 words, exclusive of up to two tables and 10 references and an abstract of 100 words or less. For submission details click here.
DID YOU KNOW?
Over 7% of hospitalizations for major injury in Canada are the result of workplace incidents. More at CIHI.
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Repatriation of Patients - A Process to Ensure a Safe Patient Transfer
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H. Roslyn Devlin, Samer Abou-Sweid, John King
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An Integrated Approach to Change Leadership
Judith Skelton-Green, Beverley Simpson, Julia Scott
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Private Health Insurance in Germany: Consequences of a Dual System
Stefan Greß
Electronic Healthcare
Performance Indicators for Information Technology Services at Four Community Hospitals
Pegi Rappaport, Gerry Dimnik, Rodney Burns and Jamie Bowie
World Health and Population
Contraceptive Use in Yemen: A Component Analysis
Vijayan K. Pillai, T.S. Sunil
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Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 – Toronto
Tom Closson and Linda O'Brien-Pallas
Topic: What is the research telling us about the quality of work-life for nurses and its implications for their retention and recruitment?
Location: Toronto, Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, Room 106
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, IBM Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
Recommended Reading: Nurse work-life, recruitment and retention (PDF)
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See our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Graham Scott: Chair of Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Glenda Yeates: CEO, CIHI. Includes a discussion with Lisa Priest and Dr. Bob Bell about Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) and other areas of special interest. To view presentation click here.
The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts. If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.
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December 4-5, 2007: Toronto, ON: Lean for Healthcare Workshop. Introduction to Lean concepts and tool adapted specifically to healthcare; presented by Lean Innovations Inc. For details click here.
December 4-6, 2007: Ottawa, ON. Health Human Resources 2007: Connecting Issues and People. This national conference will highlight the connections between health human resource (HHR) initiatives at the national, provincial, regional and local levels—and provide you with an opportunity to learn about current Canadian HHR research, planning, policies and programs. This conference will take a closer look at HHR policies, programs, planning and research through a focus on: data, research and knowledge translation; linking education with HHR; getting the right mix; and recruitment and retention. For details click here.
January 10-11, 2008: Miami, FL. Nursing Excellence: Bringing Best Evidence to the Point of Care. This inaugural South Florida Winter Evidence-Based Nursing Conference will spotlight nursing excellence and evidence based practice. This conference will be of interest to nurses in practice positions, researcher practice projects, educators engaged in curriculum change and administrators committed to achieving excellence. The primary purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for advancing the goal of nursing excellence through bringing best evidence to the point of care. For details click here.
January 16, 2008: Toronto, ON. How Can Local Healthcare Governance Survive? Sponsored by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. Speakers include Ron Sapsford, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health & Long-term Care, Elinor Caplan, former Minister of Health, North York General Hospital Board Chair, Gordon Cheesbrough and NYGH CEO Bonnie Adamson. For details click here.
May 26-28, 2008: Gatineau, QC. Bridging Silos" the 2008 CAHSPR Conference. The Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research invites you to submit an abstract for the 2008 Conference. The goal of the CAHSPR Conference is to bridge across the various silos that exist within our system and unite researchers, decision makers and policy makers in the common purpose of preparing for change in the priority areas of our healthcare system. Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2007. Click Here for more information or to submit an abstract.
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Will Falk to Managing Director, Canada - Health & Life Sciences at Accenture
Gavin Brown to Director, Health Care System Division, Health Policy Branch, Health Canada
J.S. Darville to Chair of the Board, Sherbourne Health Centre
Andrew Clarke to Director Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
Donald McInnes to Director Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
George Przybylowski to Director Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
Randy Magnussen to Director Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
Ambrose Hearn to Chair of the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) Canada Foundation.
Dr. Neil Malcolm to Intensivist, the Niagara Health System (NHS).
Leslie Motz to Program Director, Surgical Program, Humber River Hospital.
Dr. Shaun Visser, Medical Director of Emergency and Trauma Services at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, also appointed to Emergency Department Lead for the North West LHIN.
David Waung to executive director/CEO Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management
Dr. Patrick J. White to elected president, The Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA)
Dr. Bruce McManus to inaugural director of the Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital (BC)
Mildred G. Jarvis to President and Chief Executive Officer of The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre
Karen L. Ormerod to Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Global Ethics (Canada)
Physicians who have recently joined Rouge Valley Health System (ON): Dr. Hubert Wong, Paediatric Nephrologist; Dr. Ram Vijayaraghavan, Cardiologist; Dr. Karim Aref, Paediatrics; Dr. Dina el-Sahrigy, Pathology; Dr. Ali el Firjani, Paediatrics; Dr. Jason Smith, Orthopaedics; Dr. Hedieh Hooshangi, Anaesthesia; Dr. Sandra Bing-Wo, Family Practice; Dr. Gerry Cooper, Anaesthesia; Dr. Peter Chait, Radiology; Dr. Andres Gordillo, Obstetrics/Gynaecology; Dr. Paul Meinert, Paediatrics; Dr. Anita Mo, Obstetrics/Gynaecology; Dr. Yhuda Nofech-Mozes, R Paediatrics; Dr. Vijay Sharma, Anaesthesia; Dr. Sriharan Sinnadurai, Family Practice; Dr. King-Fun Siu, Family Practice.
Dr. Sheela Basrur to Honorary Doctor of Laws York University, Toronto
Dr. Michael Hayden (UBC, Vancouver) awarded the Prix Galien Canada (Research) 2007.
Dr. Jeff Reading (Scientific Director of the CIHR's Institute of Aboriginal People's Health (CIHR-IAPH) for advancing capacity in Aboriginal health research.
Canada’s top nine health researchers recognized by CIHR, the Government of Canada's agency for health research.
Shirlee Sharkey to one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network.
Dr. John Leverette, from Kingston’s [ON] University hospitals and Queen’s University, the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s Special Recognition Award, for remarkable contributions to the mental health of Canadians.
Roche Canada endows Roche Fellowship in Translational Research with a $1 million gift to the Alberta Cancer Foundation (PDF).
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