Advisory - Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement -- Save the date! - 7th Annual CEO Forum - February 6, 2013 Montreal

OTTAWA, Jan. 14, 2013 /CNW/ - Canada's leading healthcare policy/decision makers and health system innovators convene to explore and debate models that are improving efficiency and quality of care for patients and their families.

Who:	The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI)
What:	2013 CEO FORUM
Where:	Omni Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal, QC
When:	Wednesday February 6, 2013 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET

Patient and Family-Centred Care and Efficiency: Complementary aims?

• Healthcare efficiency and family-and patient centred care: what are the public's views? Results from a 2013 IPSOS Reid public opinion poll.
• Patient-and Family-centred Care and Efficiency - A Minister's perspective: Honourable Fred Horne, Minister of Health, Alberta
• Achieving efficiencies in healthcare - why is it so difficult? Jeffrey Simpson shares recommendations for improving our healthcare system.
• Revolutionizing care for the tiniest patients - Mount Sinai Hospital's Family integrated care initiative empowers parents to care for their premature babies.
• Creating and managing patient pathways: How patient groups across the country are improving our healthcare system.
• Paradigm shift-the Nova Scotia diabetic test strip story and other new (non-drug) technologies that are shaping the way we interact with patients.

The CFHI CEO Forum features a full-day of presentations, lively debates, poster sessions and much more.  For information and agenda visit: chfi-fcass.ca or CEO Forum 2013

SOURCE: Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement

For information or registration contact:
Eileen Melnick McCarthy
Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement
613.728.2238 ext. /poste 233
[email protected]