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Message from PNWER Healthcare Working Group Co-Chairs Minimize

The challenges facing the health system are too complex to be solved in isolation. We have much to learn from one another - across borders and also bringing together ideas and innovation from both the public and private sectors.

We hope the PNWER region can serve as an example of fresh new ideas and a model for North America of individual, population and economic health! Please provide any ideas on how the working group might be useful through the PNWER office.

John Sproule and Julie French
Co-Chairs
PNWER Healthcare Working Group

 
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"When Health is absent - wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applies"
   - Herophilus, (335 BC to 280 BC - Greek Physician - The Father of Anatomy).

PNWER Healthcare Working Group

Co-Chairs
Mr. John Sproule
Institute of Health Economics
1200, 10405 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada   T5J 3N4
jsproule@ihe.ca

Rep. Julie French
Montana State Legislature
PO Box 356
Scobey, MT, USA   59263-0356
julfrench71@yahoo.com

PNWER Staff
Brandon Hardenbrook
brandon@pnwer.org

 

Secretariat

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The Secretariate for the PNWER Healthcare Working Group is located at the Institute of Health Economics in Edmonton, Alberta

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News Highlights Minimize
  • Canadian News: Check Out Health Edition
  • US News: Check Out Kaiser Health News
  • The spread of the H1N1 flu virus, also known as Swine Flu, raises the question of how governments and public health dealt with the pandemic. The states and provinces in the Pacific Northwest region have responded with a variety of strategies and appear to have coordinated well in reponse to the concern to ensure the public was well informed. The World Health Organization had raised the pandemic alert level to Phase 6 based on the spread of the H1N1 virus. To keep up-to-date on this issue, please go to http://www.who.int/en/
  • Pacific Northwest Border Health Alliance (PNWWBHA) underway! The 2009 PNWBHA Workshop held in late May in Vancouver resulted in the critical first signatures from Washington and Oregon on the Memorandum of Understanding to create the Pacific Northwest Border Health Alliance. Read more in the Quarterly Newsletter, Volume I, Issue 3, June 2009.

 

Health Care Working Group: 2009/10 Action Items Minimize

Health Evidence Network: Examples of Best Practice in PNWER Region

Hold a meeting of health evidence centres and key decision makers in association with the 2010 Calgary, PNWER meeting to identify opportunities for:

  • Joint identification of priorities for evidence review
  • Mechanisms for cooperating and using shared capacity at academic centres in the region
  • Sharing approaches to engage with the public processes
  • Promotion of self care and decision support aids for consumers (Including Health Link Info Line)

Note: perhaps the launch of Health evidence netowrk for PNWER region.

International Comparative Health Policy

  • PNWER will use the Health Care working group website and newsletter to identify reliabel evidence systems.
  • A slide kit of international comparative health statistics on an annual basis will be prepared for use by PNWER decision-makers. (Institute of Health Economics)

Border Health Alliance: Update on Memorandum of Understanding between PNWER States and Provinces to Partner on Public Health Emergencies

The MoU for the PNW Border Health Alliance is being circulated for sign-off and becomes effective when executed by two or more jurisdictions. To date the MoU has been signed by Idaho, Oregon and Washington and is presently on its way to British Columbia and will proceed to all jurisdictions. PNWER encourages all jurisdicitions to sign the MoU in 2009.

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