Notes
The convergence of medicine and the digital revolution
. . . drawing on a confluence of trends that should lead us to the era of personalized medicine.
Neil Seeman speculates that American cardiologist and geneticist Eric Topol might be right. He uses this Wall Street Journal commentary as evidence: "Swiss drug giant Roche Holding Ltd. made a hostile offer for Illumina Inc. that values the DNA sequencing company at $5.7 billion, in a move that underscores growing interest in the competitive field of gene sequencing". See Neil’s review of Topol's book - N of 1 : He starts: "In the future of medicine, the personal is less political than it is inevitable. In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, American cardiologist and geneticist Eric Topol invites us to consider the sunny side of the convergence of medicine and the digital revolution..." More.
Spotlight
Excellent Care for All
The Hon. Deb Matthews and Adalsteinn D. Brown at Breakfast with the Chiefs, May 13, 2010
Recommended Reading
Careers
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- Effective Teamwork in Healthcare: Research and Reality
- N of 1
- The Ghost of Healthcare Despair
- Administration: What Is Leadership in Nursing Administration?
- Ten Key Principles for Successful Health Systems Integration
- Thoughts on Flaherty Health Announcement*
- The "Efficiency Dividend” and the Changing Face of Ontario Healthcare
- Transfer of Accountability: Transforming Shift Handover to Enhance Patient Safety
- Impact of Information Technology on Human Resources in Healthcare
- Happiness Rising
- Perhaps I Am One of the Lucky Ones
- A Conversation about Leadership and Quality with James Reinertsen and G. Ross Baker
- Will Falk Comments on John Ronson’s essay “LHINs at Five years – What Now?” Part 2 of 2
- Spare the Policy, Spoil the Profession
- Workplace Rudeness: A New Pandemic?
- The Spinoff (Part 4): No, Virginia, We Don’t Need More Innovation Conferences
- LHINS at 5 Years – Further Thoughts
- Wanted: A Christopher Hitchens for Healthcare
- Chapter 14: Make the Most of Your Turn
- WASH YOUR BLOODY HANDS
- Soaring Health Care Costs Due To Technology, Not Aging Society
- Healthcare Innovation: Extreme Affordability
- Ontario’s e-Health Journey – Assessing the Path Forward – Part One
- Interview with Kathleen MacMillan, Former Provincial Chief Nursing Officer
- Creating Healthy Work Environments: A Strategic Perspective
- Book Review: Lessons Learned In Changing Healthcare And How We Learn Them
- Nurse Managers' Work Stressors and Coping Experiences: Unravelling the Evidence
- Transformational Leadership to Promote Cross-Generational Retention
- Guest Editorial
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- Magnet Hospital Characteristics and Northern Canadian Nurses' Job Satisfaction
- "Just Because a Nurse Is a Really Good Nurse Doesn't Mean She Will Be a Good Manager!"
- Nursing News
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- The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method in the Madness
- Interns Over 40 for Healthcare
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- Home First: Reducing ALC and Achieving Better Outcomes for Seniors through Inter-organizational Collaboration
- Optimizing Healthcare Access: through the Alignment of Economic and Ethical Imperatives
- “Is Depression a Disease”? An Open Letter to the Editor of the Globe and Mail
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- The World’s First Virtual Cello Lesson – Perhaps with a Few Lessons for Healthcare
- Work Force Singing a New Kind of Blues
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- Master's-Prepared Novice? Commentary from a New Master's-Prepared Graduate
- Meet Dr. Mom
- White Paper on e-Health Adoption*
- Just the Facts
- Ontario Generic Drug Wars, Part 2: Did Retail Pharmacy Need Rebates?
- Listening to Jared Loughner
- Infoway's Second Decade: Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way – Part One
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- Population Aging and the Determinants of Healthcare Expenditures: The Case of Hospital, Medical and Pharmaceutical Care in British Columbia, 1996 to 2006
- Share Your Story, Shape Your Care: Engaging the Diverse and Disperse Population of Northwestern Ontario in Healthcare Priority Setting
- "Nurse” vs. “Doctor”
- Publisher's Note
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- Why Does It Take So Long to Adopt an EMR? Part 1 of 2: A Model of the Effects of Socio-Technical Factors on Physician Office Productivity
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- Who will say go?
- Attitudes and Behaviours of Hospital Pharmacy Staff toward Near Misses
- America's Top Family Doctor Reinventing Surgeon General Role
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- The TSX Gives a Short Course in Health Economics: It's the Prices, Stupid!
- Infoway's Second Decade: Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way – Part Two
- The Essay
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- The Editor's Focus: Amnesic Déjà Vu: The feeling that you have forgotten this before.
- Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Innovation - and Hot Air
- Determinants of Gender Differences in Health among the Elderly in Latin America
- Measuring Physical Accessibility to Health Facilities – A Case Study on Khulna City
- The Impact of Diagnostic Imaging Investments on the Canadian Healthcare System
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- The Authors Respond
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- What Ontarians (and their Auditor General) Should be Asking About Physician Pay
- My Vision Impairment is Hurting People I Love
- A Wake-Up Call for Healthcare Boards
- Automating Data Capture from the Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) for Secondary Data Uses
- Ten Key Principles for Successful Health Systems Integration
- Electioneering Chronic Illness
- The Danger of Safe Ideas
- Primary Healthcare Renewal in British Columbia - About this issue
- Andrew Szende and the Development of the electronic Child Health Network (eCHN)
- Profile of a Leader - Mary Agnes Snively: Realistic Optimist
- Engaging the Forces of Change
- LHINs at Five years – What Now?
- US Regional Health Information Organizations and the Nationwide Health Information Network: Any Lessons for Canadians?
- Geographic Accessibility of Community Pharmacies in Ontario
- Towards a National Report Card in Nursing: A Knowledge Synthesis
- The "Old Internationals": Canadian Nurses in an International Nursing Community
- Ontario Generic Drug Wars, Part 4: Lessons for Medicare
- Workplace Experiences of New Graduate Nurses
- Is It Worthwhile to Invest in Home Care?
- CIHI Survey: Challenges for Providing Maternity Services: The Impact of Changing Birthing Practices
- Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research
- Healthy Workplaces for Health Workers in Canada: Knowledge Transfer and Uptake in Policy and Practice
