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Value-Based Healthcare - The Role of the Vendor Community by Ron Kaczorowski, (Essays, 2018)
Value is in the eye of the beholder! Successful organizations understand that marketing, selling and delivering value is their responsibility.Yet if we look back over ten, fifteen or twenty-years, we can see that many of yesterday’s industry leaders have failed to deliver value.  Many of these powerhouse companies no longer exist. 
 

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Focusing on outcomes, value-based healthcare (VBHC) can help healthcare providers manage costs and deliver improved care, all with limited resources.  Case Studies from Value-Based Healthcare: A Global Assessment.

Moving toward Value-based Payment Models in Canadian Healthcare (Essays, 2012)
Healthcare systems across Canada face a pressing sustainability problem. Past reforms have focused primarily on the delivery of healthcare services and not enough on the alignment of financial incentives to add value.  Canada’s challenges are echoed on the world stage, and as such a number of healthcare payment reform models have begun to emerge in response.

Transitioning to value based healthcare in top tier healthcare systems (Video)
Omar Ishrak, Breakfast with the Chiefs, 2015 

From Theory to Practice: Implementing Value-Based Healthcare Around the World (Video)
Omar Ishrak, Breakfast with the Chiefs, 2017

REGISTER NOW FOR TOMORROW's Breakfast with the Chiefs featuring Dr. Edward Brown as he shares ideas and evidence that demonstrate we can improve access, enhance chronic disease management and create the patient-centred system we all want -by thinking a little differently and leveraging technology.

• Longwoods E-health Library: Profile: Ed Brown and the Development of the Ontario Telemedicine Network (Healthcare Quarterly, 2009)
• Edward Brown, Telemedicine modernizer (The Globe and Mail, 2010)

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• Nursing Regulation and Licensure 
• Nursing-Led Quality Improvement Initiatives
• Nursing Scope of Practise 

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Breakfast with the Chiefs

TOMORROW - Wednesday June 6, 2018 - Toronto, ON (registration closes at noon today)
8:00am to 9:00am, join us for Breakfast at 7:30am
Dr. Edward Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)
Topic: A Practical Guide to Disrupting Healthcare
Location: Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ben Sadowski Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON
Sponsors:  CFHI, Medtronic, Novari Health, NRC Health, TELUS Health and Mount Sinai Hospital
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Conferences

• June 5, 19, 26, 2018: Live, Interactive, Online. Measuring ROI in Health Care
• June 7-8, 2018: Ottawa, ON. Canadian Association of Ambulatory Care Conference 2018
• June 12, 2018: Live, Interactive, Online. The ABC's of Journalism - How to write an article for a trade of business publication (10% Discount with Code "Longwoods")
• June 14-21, 2018: Live, Interactive, Online. HI Bootcamp eHealth Like iPhone
• August 20-21, 2018: Winnipeg, MB. CMA Health Summit
• August 26-28, 2018: San Diego, CA. 24th Annual NRC Health Symposium
• September 24-25, 2018: Toronto, ON. 6th Annual National Forum on Patient Experience
• October 24-25, 2018: Toronto, ON. AFHTO 2018 Conference: "Relationship Design with Starfield in Mind"

Transitions

• Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia to Senator, Newfoundland and Labrador, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON
• Chandlee Dickey to Chief, Department of Psychiatry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London, London, ON
• Laurie Snider to Associate Dean and Director, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC
• Namta Gupta re-appointed to Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, UGME, McGill University, Montreal, QC
• Paul Allison of Quebec to Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON
• Diane Gosselin of Quebec to Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON
• Lousie Lemieux-Charles of Ontario to Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON
• Amélie Quesnel-Vallée of Quebec to Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON
• Josette-Renée Landry of Quebec to Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON
• Michael Salter of Ontario to Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON
• Shelagh Maloney to EVP, Digital Health Engagement and Marketing, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, ON
• Rozmin Punjani to Sr. Provincial Project Manager, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB
• Andrea Tricco to Co-Director, Queen’s Collaboration for Health Care Quality, Kingston, ON
• Nancy Whitmore to Registrar and CEO, The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Toronto, ON

Featured Careers

• Director, Diagnostic Imaging & Laboratory Services - William Osler Health System, Brampton, ON
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• Vice President, Programs - Michael Garron Hospital, Toronto, ON
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• Operations Director, Surgery and Maternal, Newborn, Child, Youth Program - Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, Barrie, ON
• Senior Financial Analyst - Central LHIN, Markham, ON
• Program Manager, Data & Implementation Science - University Health Network, Toronto, ON
• Senior Director, Strategic Communications - Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, ON
• President and Chief Executive Officer - Brant Community Healthcare System, Brantford, ON
• Four New Members of the Board of Directors - Alberta’s Provincially Integrated Laboratory Organization, Edmonton, AB