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“Improving quality saves money”: A Dialogue on Quality and Patient Safety with IHI’s Maureen Bisognano.

Essays

Can Esmeralda Superspy and her sidekick Goober stop the Evil Dr.Carbon’s dastardly plan to stop kids from walking to school?

Off the Cuff

Getting to Sustainability: Radiology as an Example of Moore’s Law in Healthcare.

Ontario Minister of Health Deb Matthews turned Breakfast with the Chiefs on its ear and asked the questions. Some very telling answers from the audience.

Dot: From the Editor-in-Chief [individual essays by Dot Pringle — still popular, still free] or buy the print version.

Listening to Those We Seek to Help by Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine. Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. [this essay still popular, still free]. Buy the book.

Children and families have insights that are unique and are critical to successfully moving initiatives forward. SickKids has embarked on a partnership with families to ensure the safety of their children through the Families as Partners in Patient Safety Committee.

Share our video library on your website. Simply list them or embed the video within your own website. Be our guest.

Did you know you can create your own dashboard on the Longwoods site? Every time you mark a product as a “favourite” it goes to your dashboard. And more. . .

Featured article: brought to you by Relay Health All Together Now: A Conceptual Exploration of Integrated Care

News

Couple Makes Multi-Million Dollar Commitment to Screen Every Newborn Baby for “Bubble Boy” Disease
Campaign Dares Canadians to Wear Red and Support African HIV/Aids Projects
Smart-e-Pants now being tested in Alberta hospitals
New study building framework to bring personalized medicine to the clinic
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Conferences

February 8, 2012: Webcast. FIPPA Case Managment
February 8, 2012: Webcast. Redefining Value and Success in Healthcare
February 13, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advanced Health Leadership Program – Rotman School of Management
February 15, 2012; Montreal, QC. 2012 CEO Forum
February 22, 2012: Toronto, ON. Fight or Flight? Resolving Conflict in the Professional Workplace
February 22, 2012: Webcast: Quality Improvement Plan, Target Setting and the Patient Experience
February 23, 2012: Toronto, ON: Legal and Ethical Issues in End of Life Care: Making Appropriate Use of Care
February 28-29, 2012: Vancouver BC. Will paying the piper change the tune?  Promise and pitfalls of healthcare funding reform
March 1-2, 2012: Vancouver BC. Mastering the Art and Science of Healthy Work Environments, QWQHC 6th Annual Summit
March 2, 2012: Toronto ON. Executive Compensation
March 22, 2012: Webcast: Patient Safety and NarcoticAdministration- Lessons Learned from the Coroner’s Office
March 29, 2012: Toronto, ON. Nurse Practitioners: Optimize Patients’ Access to Health Care
April 2-4, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Public Health Convention
April 13-14, 2012: Ottawa , ON. CMA and CSPE Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership
April 25-26, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Gerontology Associations 2012 Conference
April 25-27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advances in Health Informatics Conference – call for papers now open
May 4-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. 2012 National Health Law Conference
May 22-25, 2012: Toronto, ON. The Dorothy Wylie Nursing & Health Leaders Institute
May 28, 2012: Montreal, QC. Appplied Research in Cancer 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
October 1-2, 2012: Toronto, ON. National Case Management NetworkConference & Expo – Call for Abstracts deadline June 30

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Transitions

Ken Mayhew to President & CEO, William Osler Health System Foundation, Brampton, ON
Lois Graveline to Manager, Community Development, Cystic Fibrosis Canada, Toronto, ON
Edmée Métivier to CEO, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Quebec, Montreal
Dave Filipchuk to PCL as President, Western Canadian Buildings
Jim Dougan to PCL as President, Eastern Canadian Buildings
Rob Holmberg to PCL as Executive Vice-President, Canadian Buildings
Marc LePage to President and CEO, Génome Québec
David Blodgett to President and CEO, Group Medical Services
Carlyn Moulton to Chief Business Development Officer, Salumatics, Mississauga ON.
Michelle DiEmanuele to President and CEO of The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre
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