Quote

“Radiologists’ incomes are now more than double the average physician’s income. Is this how policy makers intended to spend their scarce resources?” Will Falk looks at a broken fiscal balance in the system.

Essays

LHINS at 5 years –  Nan Brooks responds to John Ronson

Off the Cuff

• Clostridium Difficile Resources
• More hospitals look to nocturnists to enhance patient care at night, on weekends
• Adult Obesity Prevalence in Canada and the United States.
• “The what of change cannot easily be separated from the how of change for leaders who must take action.” Read more from Paul Batalden’s series on Lessons Learned.
• Hospitals represent the largest single component of healthcare expenditures in Canada. Now exceeding $50 billion per year. Visit the new hospitalfunding.ca to find out more.
• The current Longwoods.com website was built over a year ago. Is that old in web years?  We now rank in the top 2.74 % of all websites. Thanks. We enjoy the challenge of moving up a notch.
• Call for nominations: The Margret Comack Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership acknowledges outstanding leadership of an nurse employed in a member organization of OHA. The nomination deadline is July 29, 2011. Click here for more information.
• Call for Submissions – Leading Practices Awards – Deadline: July 22, 2011. Click here for more information.
• There are more than 60 Healthcare Leadership and Nursing positions on our Job Board. Go to jobs.Longwoods.com to see them all.
• Don’t miss new content on Longwoods,com. Sign up for our “New Issue Alerts” here.

Our Editors Recommend

• CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Public Reporting: One Piece of the Quality Improvement Puzzle by Kate Rexe, Steeve Vigneault and Jennifer Thornhill
• Using Common Work Environment Metrics to Improve Performance in Healthcare Organizations by Graham Lowe and Ben Chan
• Towards a National Report Card in Nursing: A Knowledge Synthesis by Diane Doran, Barbara Mildon and Sean Clarke
• Knowledge, Translation, Linkage and Exchange: Performance Reporting to Help Organizations Promote Quality Improvement by Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
• Canada’s E-Health Journey and HIMSS Analytics’ Canada Information and Communications Technology Study by Patrick Powers
• Multiple Forces Working in Unison: The Case of Rapid Improvement of Vital Statistics in South Africa Post-1996 by Sulaiman Bah

Our Readers Recommend

• Measuring EMR Adoption: A Framework and Case Study
• Collaboration to Change the Landscape of Nursing: A Journey between Urban and Remote Practice Settings
• CPOE and eMAR Implementation Metrics at a Community Hospital
• Development and Evaluation of an RN/RPN Utilization Toolkit
• Adapting the Balanced Scorecard for Mental Health and Addictions: An Inpatient Example
• Research: Evidence-based Nursing Practice: How to Get There from Here
• Many Canadians Feel Healthcare Needs Are Not Being Met
• The Development of a Primary Healthcare Information System to Support Performance Measurement and Research in British Columbia
• Education of Advanced Practice Nurses in Canada
• Using Common Work Environment Metrics to Improve Performance in Healthcare Organizations

News

• The ideal and the real in community care, as providers see it. Survey results released, with strategies to improve coordination of care
• ICGC Releases New Genomic Data on Cancer Ahead of Schedule
• Nation’s Most Wired Hospitals Make Progress in Adoption of Health Information Technology
• Innovative continuing education course ramps up pharmacists’ capacity for providing patient-focused care
• The Change Foundation seeks community to improve seniors’ healthcare experience
• Infoway establishes Tech Watch Group to monitor and promote emerging technologies for health
• Infoway Challenge Sparks Innovations for Health Care
• Worldwide Study Identifies Top Global Challenges in Mental Health
• Stumped about social media use in healthcare?
• More…

Conferences

• July 10-13, 2011: Toronto, ON. IHEA Pre-Conference Symposium
• July 21, 2011: Toronto, ON. PwC’s Citizens’ Reference Panel
• September 7-9, 2011: Huntsville, ON. Health Care Leadership Summit 2011: A New Environment and New Realities
• September 19-20, 2011: Toronto, ON. 4th Annual Lean in Healthcare
• October 17, 2011: Toronto, ON. Mobile Health Symposium
• November 21-22, 2011: Toronto, ON. Children’s Mental Health Ontario Conference

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
For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

• Jeanne Besner to Member of the Order of Canada
• Brian Schmidt to Interim President, BC Cancer Agency (BCCA)
• Michael Marchbank to CEO of the Health Employers Association of BC
• Teri Lawver to President, Johnson and Johnson Medical Companies
• Mike Canzoneri to Area Business Director, North West Europe, Medical Surgical Systems, BD
• Kulvir Singh Gill was named Chair, Board of Directors, William Osler Health System Foundation

Send your transitions to transitions@longwoods.com
See more Transitions here.

Featured Careers

See the entire list of leadership and nursing careers at Jobs.Longwoods.com

• Patient Care Manager, Renal Program – Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, ON
• Vice President, People and Clinical Services – Interior Health Authority, Kelowna, BC
• Clinical Renal Site Leader – Renal Services- RCC Site – The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON
• Director, Technical Support Services – Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga, ON
• Senior Application Analyst – Consolidated Health Information Services, Windsor, ON
• Director of Finance – Humber River Regional Hospital, Greater Toronto Area, ON
• Clinical Educator Medicine/Nephrology/Neurology – The Credit Valley Hospital Mississauga, ON
• Director, Organizational Health Management – Ontario Hospital Association Toronto, ON
• Policy Analyst – Health Council of Canada , Toronto, ON
• Senior Director Client Services – Central West Community Care Access Centre, Brampton, ON

For more information or to post a position go to Jobs.Longwoods.com or email Susan Hale

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 at 11:50 am and is filed under Longwoods Online.