Quote

“. . . data capture is a means of levelling the playing field.” Lori Lamont

Essay

Shades of Ornge: Are Family Health Teams Coming Off The Rails?

Off the Cuff

• Do you tweet? Follow eLongwoods and get everything a little faster. Faster is better.
• And how effective is Child Health in Canada? From the Hospital for Sick Children.
• The Role for Advanced Practice Nursing in Canada: a lot of challenges make for a little summer reading.
• Here are six issues of Patient Safety Papers. Put these links on your intranet for easy access. Sponsored by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and Accreditation Canada.
• Errors in patient care are still an indomitable challenge. If you have some practices that make safety strides, please send them to: thepublisher@longwoods.com. (Suggestion: Make it into a case study for your colleagues.)
• Cliff Nordel writes this mini book review for: From Grave to Cradle to Now | The Health Care Professional Edition (PDF)
• A Framework and Toolkit for Managing e-Health Change (PDF): People and Processes.  If you need more information write WNovachko@infoway-inforoute.ca
• Emerging mHealth Paths for Growth (PDF): From PwC
• Hospital and Other Health Expenditures-Descriptive Overview (PPT) from CIHI

Excellent Care “For All”, Camille Orridge adds to the Equity blog.

We asked in a previous eLetter:
What are the three most important challenges facing healthcare? You answered:

• Transforming health funding (how money is allocated) and financing (how money is raised). Our experts respond: Fiscal Sustainability & The Transformation of Canada’s Healthcare System by  Will Falk, Matthew Mendelsohn & Josh Hjartarson with Alex Stoutley
• Health systems change including but not limited to: reducing fee-for-service, introducing differing models of health service delivery (including use of nurse practitioners) and health prevention and promotion. Our experts respond: Balancing Equity Issues in Health Systems: Perspectives of Primary by Richard H. Glazier
• Broadening the health system to include home care and pharmaceuticals. Our experts respond.

Healthcare Quarterly
How Long Can We Enjoy B-Player Status?

Healthcare Papers
The Road to Improving Patient-Reported Outcomes: Measures or Healthcare Reform?

Nursing Leadership
British Columbia: Improving Retention and Recruitment in Smaller Communities

Healthcare Policy
Drug Shortages: Searching for a Cure

Electronic Healthcare
Managing e-Health Change – A Pan-Canadian Collaborative Approach

World Health and Population
The Saudi Healthcare System: A View from the Minaret

News

New mobile app helps give neonatologists the full picture
Canadian operating rooms can be green and reduce medical waste: analysis
Alberta to revive controversial chiropractic treatment subsidies for seniors
The Change Foundation announces Northumberland PATH
Canada Can Become a Global Leader in Health Care Value, Says BCG
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Conferences

• June 12, 2012: Webcast. Requirements Under Bill 168 for a Bully Free Workplace
• June 14, 2012: Toronto, ON. Health Care Capital Planning and Implementation: Enabling Excellent Care for All
• June 17-19, 2012: Toronto, ON. OACCAC Knowledge and Inspiration 2012
• June 18-22, 2012: Toronto, ON. Certificate in Clinical Leadership
• June 28, 2012: Webcast. Alternate Level of Care Patients: Managing the Transitions to Care – The Legislative Framework
• Sept 6, 2012: Webcast. Lessons Learned from the Coroner’s Office: Paediatric Death Investigations

Conferences on the Longwoods site | Events in Global Health at the University of North Carolina | Add your conference

Transitions

Dr Diane Watson to inaugural Chief Executive Officer, National Health Performance Authority, Australia
Karen Davies to Vice President, St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital ON
Barbara Grantham to Senior Vice-President, Strategic Initiatives and Philanthropy, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital Foundation, Vancouver, BC
Dr. Terry Klassen to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
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