Calling all citizens interested in the health system – Your Voice Counts
Check out these opportunities to learn and get involved this summer by visiting the Patient Voices Network website and registering for the latest instalment of the “Your Voice Counts” initiative. A series of interactive webinars is offered that will help you better understand the health care system and how your voice can impact the design and development [...]
Innovative Nursing Services and Practice Informed by Research and Evaluation Network
Be sure to visit the Inspirenet website www.inspirenet.ca to find out about collaboration opportunities and advances in nursing health services research in the province.
eHealth 2012 conference paper
Canada’s national e-Health 2012 conference was held in Vancouver at the end of May. I presented the Risk Assessment project so far (the presentation can be viewed on the conference website at http://www.e-healthconference.com/Presentations/e-Health%202012%20Presentations/O39.3.pdf). There were about 50 or so people in the sessions and the people who asked questions seemed to be doctors or medical practitioners. Main interest [...]
Special Faculty of Medicine rates for eHealth summer camp!
We’re delighted to announce that there is a special discount for campers whose parents or guardians are Faculty of Medicine employees, for our popular eHealth summer camps running between 16th and 27th July. This will also be in the Faculty of Medicine Link email early next week. To take advantage of this offer, visit http://www.ehealthinnovators.ca/EducationCamp.aspx and when [...]
Photos with delegation from Health and Human Resources Development Centre, Ministry of Health China
On May 1st, 2012, a delegation from Health and Human Resources Development Centre, Ministry of Health China, visited Faculty of Medicine and met with Dr. Gavin Stuart (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine), Mr. Mark Vernon (Chief Operating Officer), Dr. Martin Dawes (Head, Department of Family Practice) and Dr. Kendall Ho (director of eHealth Strategy [...]
Diabetes Prevention and Management Workshop in Guangzhou, China
On March 25, 2012, eHealth Strategy Office, in partnership with the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, successfully hosted “Diabetes Prevention and Management: Exploratory Workshop through Western and Eastern Medicine” workshop in Guangzhou, China. Together with renowned medical experts and doctors from Canada and Guangzhou china, we explored diabetes prevention and self-management methods through both perspectives of [...]
BC PAD Launches New Topic for 2012
The BC Provincial Academic Detailing (PAD) service launched a new drug topic at the end of February. The current topic “Statins and Cardiovascular Disease” will be available for academic detailing sessions until at least September 2012. The topic focuses on: Clinically important outcomes and goals of therapy with a statin Evidence for using statins for [...]
Three Key Trends in e-Health that cannot be missed in Chinese Health Reform
Access, quality, and affordability of health care to citizens, not only for patients living in urban but particularly for those living in rural and remote areas, have been increasingly brought into focus over the last decade by governments, health organizations, health professionals, and health consumers themselves in all countries. Canada and China are no exceptions, [...]