By janicetian on February 5, 2013
Substantial investments in eHealth development are happening in China; witness the boom of electronic health records in hospitals, health surveillance systems to monitor national and global developments in infectious and chronic diseases, and mobile biosensors to monitor patient conditions as prime examples. As technology enabled practices become more sophisticated, health professionals like doctors, nurses, pharmacists, [...]
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By janicetian on January 8, 2013
On September 20th, 2012, Led by Deputy Director General Mr. Wang Panshi, a delegation from Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, China, visited Faculty of Medicine and met with Dr. Fred Mikelberg (Vice Dean, Faculty of Medicine), Dr. David Patrick(Director, School of Population and Public Health), Dr. Kendall Ho(Director, eHealth Strategy Office), Dr. Charles Larson(Director, Centre for [...]
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By janicetian on June 25, 2012
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 [...]
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By janicetian on June 22, 2012
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 [...]
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By janicetian on June 19, 2012
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, [...]
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By janicetian on November 28, 2011
Dr. Kendall Ho was given the responsibility of the Vice President of the third international Brain Health Forum 2011 (China), and gave a presentation on the topic of “Empowering Community Members through Mobile Technologies: A New Frontier in Virtual Public Health Education” on November 8th, his presenation topic abstract was: Mobile phones are becoming both highly personal and [...]
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By janicetian on November 16, 2011
We are happy to announce that the eHealth Strategy Office recently received our first grant from the Chinese government for collaborative research with the ShenZhen institute of Advanced Technologies (SIAT). The UBC Faculty of Medicine provided an official announcement of the grant, and described the project in more detail. The joint project will develop a [...]
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