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HR Resources Newsletter July 15, 2010

Longwoods Publishing presents the HR Resources Newsletter – access to: a database of best practices; Longwoods recruitment sites; key employer recruitment portals; a history of leadership transitions and appointments; current employment opportunities and more. Vol.3 No.14 | July 15, 2010 The HR Resources Newsletter is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from:   Essay […]

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Hospitals and Boards of Public Health Salary Disclosure 2010

Public Sector – Ontario –  (Disclosure for 2009) Hospitals and Boards of Public Health Click here to download the PDF

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Longwoods eLetter July 13, 2010

Definition* Consumer/patient: in some cases when people talk of consumers/patients they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed as (for example) in-patient/out-patient. However there is a trend to individualize the concept. Instead of generating broad demographic profiles and psycho-graphic profiles of market segments, healthcare policy […]

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Implementing Interprofessional Care in Ontario

Final Report of the Interprofessional Care Strategic Implementation Committee HealthForceOntario, May 2010 Download the PDF here

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Longwoods eLetter July 6, 2010

Definition* Brand Equity: Quality of a branded organization, service or product that is recognized favourably by clients and patients; can allow management to leverage their strength in managing relationships with patients, clients, suppliers, employees, policy managers and payers. Essay New Brunswick’s E-health Strategy and the Evolution of Regionalization: an outsiders perspective by Patrick Powers Off […]

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Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems from the American Hospital Association. As of July 4, 2010.

Chartbook Chartbook is now a web-based publication allowing AHA to update charts as new data become available. Please check individual chapters for newly updated charts. These documents are linked directly to the web site of the American Hospital Association. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Trends in the Overall Health Care Market Chapter 2: Organizational Trends […]

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2010 Report on Ontario’s Health System

Ontario Health Quality Council. 2010 Report on Ontario’s Health System Click here to download the PDF

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Accenture Technology Labs: Cloud Computing Accelerator

Cloud computing is the sourcing of a computing capability – hardware, software, even execution of a business process – somewhere “out there,” in a computing “cloud” created wherever vast resources are linked together. More from Accenture.

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Longwoods eLetter June 29, 2010

Definition* Agile care is a term applied to an organization that has created the processes, tools, and training to enable it to respond quickly to patient needs and population changes while still controlling costs and quality. An enabling factor in becoming an agile provider has been the development of support technology. It is a general […]

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The Customer Experience

From The Globe & Mail –  “The Customer Experience.”—not much of a stretch to apply this to the “Patient Experience.” Click her to download the PDF

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