By lizheathcote on September 24, 2012
Amanda Yu (alumni of the course) and Dean Giustini (instructor) presented on “Using Social Media in Clinical Trials” at the September 2012 Clinical Research Professionals of BC Speaker Series. Feedback from the 32 participants was great – rated as a 4.2 out of 5! Well done!
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By lizheathcote on July 20, 2012
Today we wrapped up week 1 of the eHealth Summer camp, made possible with the generous support of TELUS. Campers had an hour and a half to choose a presentation topic, prepare a presentation and deliver it to their peers, instructors, parents and some guests, including a reporter & photographer from the Vancouver Sun newspaper. [...]
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By lizheathcote on June 28, 2012
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 [...]
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By lizheathcote on June 28, 2012
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 [...]
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By lizheathcote on May 31, 2012
Our eHealth Summer Camp is fast filling up. We’re looking forward to hosting grade 10-12 students again this year for our second year of our program. This Saturday, 2 June, at 9:40pm, watch Asian Magazine on Talentvision channel (Telus) 503 or 520 on Shaw. If you miss Saturday’s broadcast, the program is repeated 7.50am and [...]
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By lizheathcote on December 7, 2011
Update: Upon publication, the print and online version of the article had different titles. The article is now available online under its print headline, “Invitation to a (tech) revolution.” The UBC Medicine magazine just published an article on the eHealth summer camps we held in July and August, titled “A midsummer’s excursion into the future [...]
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By lizheathcote on November 22, 2011
Our summer camp article has come out in the October 2011 issue of the Healthcare Information Management & Communications Magazine (Vol 25 Issue 3 p24). Titled “New Technology, New Generations: Taking eHealth to High-School Students”, we outlined the activities we covered on camp and some of the camper feedback.
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By lizheathcote on October 17, 2011
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 1-2pm PST Presenters: Erica Amari, Jennifer Cordeiro and Xian Chong Title: The Technology Enabled Academic Detailing project. The BC Provincial Academic Detailing (PAD) service is a medication education service that provides objective, evidence-informed drug information on the best prescribing practices to primary care physicians and other health care professionals. Funding from the [...]
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