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Advancing Healthcare Workforce Retention: Healthcare Excellence Canada's Workforce Innovation Challenge

By Editor on 9/14/2023
IQMH
Healthcare Excellence Canada
HEC
Patient Safety
quality
safety
Workforce Innovation Challenge
workforce safety

World Patient Safety Day: Empowering patients in their health care journey

By Editor on 9/14/2023

World Patient Safety DaySeptember 17 marks the World Health Organization (WHO) international initiative, World Patient Safety Day, dedicated to raising awareness about patient safety and promoting actions to improve healthcare practices. This year's theme, "Engaging Patients for Patient Safety," emphasizes the crucial role patients play in ensuring their own safety, and highlights the importance of effective communication, collaboration, and empowerment in healthcare settings.

IQMH
health care
healthcare
Patient Safety
WHO
World Health Organization
World Patient Safety Day
WPSD2023

Call for IQMH Committee Applications 2024–2026

By Editor on 7/14/2023
IQMH
committee membership
Committees
med lab
Proficiency Testing
Scientific Committees

IQMH attends the CSTM 2023 conference with a poster presentation on root causes of staffing shortages in Canadian medical labs

By Editor on 6/14/2023
IQMH
Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine
CSTM2023
lab shortages
med lab staffing
medical laboratory

Poster presentation at WorldLab – EuroMedLab 2023: Harmonizing post-analytical reporting

By Editor on 6/14/2023
IQMH
analytical reporting
EuroMedLab 2023
Ferritin reporting
med lab
medical laboratory

National Indigenous History Month

By Editor on 6/14/2023
IQMH
Canadian heritage
Canadian history
diversity
national indigenous history month
reconciliation

World Accreditation Day: Advancing quality in health care

By Editor on 6/9/2023
IQMH
accreditation
advancing health care
health care
IAF
ILAC
World Accreditation Day 2023

Accreditation Canada and HSO release highly anticipated 2022 Action Report

By Editor on 6/1/2023
IQMH
A Year of Action
Accreditation Canada
Action Report 2022
Health Standards Organization
HSO
Safer Care

Mental Health in the Workplace: Creating Supportive Environments for Employee Well-being

By Editor on 5/1/2023
IQMH
mental health awareness
mental health week
MHW2023
MyStory
wellbeing
Wellness Together
workplace mental health

Server maintenance - QView™ and IQMH websites will not be available

By Editor on 4/24/2023

Server MaintenanceThe client portal QView™, and the IQMH websites will not be available starting 6:00 p.m.(EST) on Friday, May 5, 2023 until late Sunday, May 7, 2023. Please make appropriate work-related arrangements to accommodate this planned maintenance.

IQMH
IQMH updates
QView updates
server maintenance
server shutdown

A passion for genetics: senior medical laboratory technologist, Amanda Marolt gives back

By Editor on 4/21/2023

National Volunteer Week: Amanda MaroltAmanda is a Senior Medical Laboratory Technologist, specializing in Genomics at Health Sciences North. She began her post-secondary education with interest in the pathology field. Amanda graduated from Laurentian University with a degree in forensics and continued her education at the Michener Institute, obtaining certification as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in genetics. She began her career in Sudbury, assisting in the opening of the molecular genetic testing laboratory where she continued, 20 years on, into her current role in the department of Genomics.

IQMH
National Volunteer Week
NVW2023
volunteers

Making an impact: Dr. Larissa Matukas improving the world of microbiology

By Editor on 4/20/2023

National Volunteer Week: Dr. Larissa MatukasDr. Larissa Matukas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, Head of the Division of Microbiology, Unity Health Toronto, and an Infectious Diseases specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital. Her specific areas of interest and expertise are in microbiology quality improvement, application of novel diagnostics, utilization and stewardship and antimicrobial resistance. With over 60 publications in her areas of interest, she has been sought out as an expert to contribute to guidelines on implementing quality management system in microbiology, best practices in specimen collection, and Choosing Wisely Canada for microbiology.

 

IQMH
National Volunteer Week
NVW2023
volunteers

Marlou Cunanan contributes expertise to the improvement of parasitology proficiency testing

By Editor on 4/19/2023

National Volunteer Week: Marlou CunananMarlou is a Medical Laboratory Technologist, specializing in Parasitology with Public Health Ontario Laboratory (PHOL) in Toronto.

As a member of the IQMH Parasitology Scientific Committee, Marlou has volunteered her time and expertise since December 2021 to prepare survey samples, microscopic analysis, homogeneity results, including pictures and morphologic descriptions of parasitic organisms.

IQMH
National Volunteer Week
NVW2023
volunteers

Dr. Ronald Booth: A Leader in Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology

By Editor on 4/18/2023

National Volunteer Week: Dr. Ronald BoothDr. Ronald Booth is a Clinical Biochemist in the Division of Biochemistry with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital and the Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He directs the Immunology and Neurobiomarkers Section of the EORLA regional laboratory at the Ottawa Hospital General Campus. He is also the Medical Laboratory Director and/or Clinical Biochemistry consultant for various community hospitals in the Eastern Ontario region.

IQMH
National Volunteer Week
NVW2023
volunteers

Melanie Tokessy brings dedication and passion to transfusion services

By Editor on 4/17/2023

Melanie TokessyMelanie is the Regional Discipline Manager for Transfusion Medicine in Tissue Typing/DNA and Molecular Diagnostics at Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA). She has been a member of the Transfusion Medicine Scientific Committee since 2012 and highlights the value she has gained from attending committee meetings and working collaboratively with other experts from across Ontario. 

IQMH
med lab
National Volunteer Week
NVW2023
volunteers

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