Friday, January 15, 2010

The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) invites you to a 2-hour discussion focused on Transforming Care.


On Friday, February 5, 2010, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Toronto time . . . .  three keynotes speakers will share their insights and contribute to a discussion led by Mary Ferguson ParĂ© of the University Health Network. The program has been designed by Dr. Ross Baker of the University of Toronto and he will provide the context and introduce the session.

Your hosts are ACEN members and Dr. Mary Ferguson Paré and Dr. Ross Baker.

You do not have to be an ACEN member to participate in the webcast.


We have three noted guest presenters. Details below.


THIS IS A WEBCAST made available to all users by BAXTER


[We do have 20 seats left at the University Health Network in Toronto where the actual presentations are hosted. We will fill those seats on a first come basis.]


Here are registration details:
The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) presents:
Transforming Care
University Health Network
Room 1EN 429/430
University Health Network, Toronto
 

AND
 

By WEBCAST
Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.  EST
If you would like to participate in-person at the University Health Network (only 20 seats available) Click here to REGISTER (note we can only accept another 20 people at the conference site. First come | first served.)
If you would like to participate directly by webcast Click here to REGISTER


If  you would like your hospital to participate in this event, please contact your hospital's onsite OTN Coordinator. SITE COORDINATORS: Please register your site here


Out of Province: Please contact the Ontario Telemedicine Network at: scheduling@otn.ca to register for the event.  Include the following reference number 9146668



ACEN 2010 ANNAUL MEETING FACULTY


TRANSFORMING CARE AT THE BEDSIDE: Patricia Rutherford, RN, MS, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement




PRESENTATION: Will present IHI’s program: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a national program of RWJF and IHI, that engages leaders at all levels of the organization to: Improve the quality and safety of patient care on medical and surgical units | Increase the vitality and retention of nurses | Engage and improve the patient’s | family members’ experience of care | Improve the effectiveness of the entire care team
 
BACKGROUND: Manages IHI's programs in
·         Clinical office practice redesign
·         Improving access and flow in specialty practices
·         Optimizing care coordination and transitions in care, and the
·         Transforming Care at the Bedside initiative.
·         Co-investigator for the STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations (STAAR) initiative.
·         process improvement, innovation, and idealized design
·         large-scale performance improvement initiatives.


RELEASING TIME TO CARE:  Marlene Smadu, RN, MA, PhD,   Associate Dean College of Nursing,
                        University of Saskatchewan


PRESENTATION: Will discuss Saskatchewan’s initiatives related to The UK-based program is called "Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Ward". It empowers nurses, and other members of care teams, to look at how their ward is organized and to make changes that allow them to spend more time with patients.


BACKGROUND:
·         Chair CPSI Education and Professional Development Committee
·         Vice Chair, Saskatchewan Health Quality Council
·         Member of the Quality Worklife-Quality Healthcare Collaborative.
·         Focus on health human resources, aboriginal health, health policy and knowledge transfer
WORK REDESIGN:   Patricia O’Connor, RN, MSc(A), CHE, Associate Director of Nursing, MUHC


PRESENTATION: Will present the impact of Work Redesign on the quality of care and the work environments


BACKGROUND: Commonwealth Fund Harkness Associate in Health Policy & Practice Neurosciences Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, McGill University
·         Guest faculty member of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s Safer Health Care Now National Falls Prevention Collaborative
·         Fellowship – the EXTRA Program with CHSRF
·         Fellow in the Canadian College of Health Service Executives.
·         Past President of the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses.


WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK BAXTER FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT TO ENABLE THIS INTERNATIONAL WEBCAST. 


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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Getting a Dialogue Started

The comments below from Dominic Covvey are posted as a starting point for a discussion on ehealth and where we find ourselves today in the rollout of electronic records at all levels (within physician’s offices, regional health authorities, provincial and national strategies). Several recent auditor generals’ reports - one on ehealth in Ontario (http://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/pdfs/News/AG_Report_en.pdf) and the other at the federal level on electronic health records and the role of CHI (http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/docs/parl_oag_200911_04_e.pdf) provide background material for some of the concerns over consultants and their fees, accountability, achievement of targets, and the costs of implementing an EHR.

An initial human resources ‘sector scan’ undertaken jointly by CHIMA, COACH, ICTC and ITAC Health has also provided a snapshot of the number of qualified professionals in health informatics and health information management, or the ehealth workforce more generally, and shows there is both a skill shortage (available workers who need to upgrade skills to incorporate knowledge of health information technology and informatics) and a labor shortage (a general lack and availability of skilled ehealth workers) (https://www.echima.ca/media/documents/HIHIM_report_E_web.pdf). The latter study concludes that “There is a serious risk that labour shortages and skills shortages will constrain the successful implementation of EHIS technologies in Canada…System-based, human resources planning measures should be a priority to ensure that the substantial investments that governments at all levels are making in EHIS technologies deliver the promised benefits.”

I have provided links to these documents and Dominic Covvey’s comments to get the dialogue started. What are the problems and more importantly how can we address them? We hope that this blog will form a forum for discussion, commentary, sharing of ideas, and feedback.

“Related to what some have termed the “ehealth debacle”, I am sure that there are at least as many opinions regarding causal factors as there are people opining. However, an understanding of our situation and what we are trying to do through ehealth certainly leads to some reasonable hypotheses about why things are not entirely copacetic. Consider the following possibilities: (1) the lack, or inadequate quality, of oversight, (2) less than full accountability, (3) the sometimes ‘bum’s rush’ to get ehealth projects underway and get EHR components in place…although perhaps not always the right components given true needs, (4) the ‘fire hose’ of funding from which only consultants seem to be able to drink, (5) the absence or weakness of the business case for, and of the evidence of the proven value of, ehealth with the consequent challenge of deciding in what to invest, how much, and what’s enough, (6) the reticence to recognize the magnitude of the ehealth challenge and what we will need to invest to realize our dreams, and (7) the dearth of fully qualified ehealth professionals. I personally believe that each of these contributes to the current embarrassing situation. A perhaps very important factor is that we have not yet recognized the magnitude and dimensionality of the challenges we face…in other words, we don’t, or aren’t willing, to fully comprehend the problem we are confronting.”

Saturday, January 2, 2010

A $32 million University-Based Training Program Funding Opportunities Announcement was released December 17th. National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

A $32 million University-Based Training Program Funding Opportunities Announcement was released December 17th. Through a competitive process, eight or more 4 year institutions of higher education will receive grants to establish programs that will rapidly increase the availability of graduates in vital highly specialized health IT roles over the course of three years.

Please note that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will be hosting a Technical Assistance call for potential University-Based Training Program applicants on Tuesday, January 5th from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST.

Interested parties are encouraged to join the call using the following information:

To participate:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/dt/join?id=P4Z656&role=attend&pw=7B%29CMkR
• Audio
o Dial in number: 877-601-4720
o Participant passcode: 1414879

For detailed information on the University-Based Training Program visit http://healthit.hhs.gov/universitytraining.

There will be time reserved for a Question and Answer session. Please be advised that the TA call will be a listen only event as questions can only be accepted electronically. You are encouraged to submit questions in advance to university-based-training@hhs.gov. During the call, questions will be accepted via the questions tab in the Live Meeting environment.

A previous technical assistance call was held in December 23, and a PowerPoint slide presentation from the call is available at http://healthit.hhs.gov/universitytraining.

Visit http://healthit.hhs.gov/hitechgrants for information on additional HITECH funding opportunities.

First Time Users:
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