Quote

“I’ve always hankered to be a baseball writer.” Steven Lewis

Essay

Radiology as an Example of Moore’s Law in Healthcare  – Getting to Sustainability. Will Falk [Recommended reading by Denis Protti]

Off the Cuff

New CIHI online resource shows hospital performance improving.

Pregnant mothers who overeat or under eat may be setting up their babies for a lifelong weight problem. Dr. Arya Sharma (Edmonton) weighs in.

Here is a sample of essays from Neil Seeman from Longwoods.

• Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Innovation – and Hot Air
• Workplace Rudeness: A New Pandemic?
• Googling Obesity

Health Policy: The Best of Times or the Worst? Jennifer Zelmer

A Casualty in the Class War: Canada’s Medicare Robert G. Evans

The next Breakfast with the Chiefs – May 16 at Li Ka Shing
Indicators, analytics and dashboards. The new CIHI initiative with John Wright, Kevin Smith and Kelly Isfan. Breakfast with three essentially different CEOs.
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Healthcare Quarterly
Immigrant Health and the Children and Youth of Canada: Are We Doing Enough?

Healthcare Papers
The PROMise of Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Will Canada Choose the Right Road?

Nursing Leadership
The Role of Nursing Leadership in Integrating Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners

Healthcare Policy
Using Administrative Data to Study Child Health

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

World Health and Population
Breastfeeding as a Time-Varying–Time-Dependent Factor for Birth Spacing

News

Ontario Hospital Association Recognized for HealthAchieve
Statement From Ontario’s Health Minister In Response to the Ontario Medical Association
U of T & St. Michael’s Hospital report recommends safe drug-use site for Toronto
OIG: Only one in seven hospital errors is reported
How common is off-label drug prescription?
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Conferences

• April 18-20, 2012: Thunder Bay, ON. Region 1 Spring Conference: Transforming Organizational Culture
• April 23, 2012: Toronto, ON. Patient Experience: Working Together to Improve Patient Satisfaction
• April 23, 2012: Webcast.  Mobile Healthcare – A New Dimension
• April 25, 2012: Webinar. Get Ready for the CRNE
• April 25-26, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Gerontology Associations 2012 Conference
• April 25-26, 2012: Toronto, ON. Conference for Administrative Professionals
• April 25-27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advances in Health Informatics Conference – call for papers now open
• April  27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Conference for Board Finance Committee Members
• April 27-28, 2012: Vancouver, BC. Western Emergency Department Operations Conference
• May 4-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. 2012 National Health Law Conference
• May 13-15, 2012: Toronto, ON. 5th Annual HSCN National Healthcare Supply Chain Conference
• May 22-25, 2012: Toronto, ON. The Dorothy Wylie Nursing & Health Leaders Institute
• May 23, 2012: Toronto, ON. Conference for Not-For-Profit and Charitable Organizations
• May 28, 2012: Montreal, QC.  Appplied Research in Cancer Conference
• May 29 – 31, 2012: Montreal, QC. Annual CAHSPR Conference
• May 31-June 1, 2012: Toronto, ON. Second Annual National Nursing Executives Summit
• June 4-5, 2012: Halifax, NS. National Health Leadership Conference
• June 4-6, 2012: Ottawa, ON. Together Against Stigma: Changing How We See Mental Illness

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

Transitions

Kim Sheehan to Director, Quality Governance, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria, BC.
Grant B. Walsh to President & CEO, Group Health Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, ON.
Allan Katz to President & CEO, Riverside Health Care Facilities, Fort Frances, ON.
Honourable Michael H. Wilson to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Lori Turik to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Dr. Margaretha Rebel to Chair/Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Jim Dunn, Associate Professor, Department of Health, Aging, and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, and William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University.
Shehnaz Alidina, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management, Harvard University and Research Fellow, Canada Program, Harvard School of Public Health.
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