eHealth Strategy Office hosted the second China-Canada Health Academic Forum on September 10th, 2012. A group of guests from China consisting of senior hospital executives, administrators and provincial government officials attended this Health Academic Forum focused on hospital management issues, hospital infection control and eHealth.
The morning session began with welcome remarks from Dr. Frederick Mikelberg (Vice Dean, UBC Faculty of medicine). The half-day forum included two knowledge sharing sessions, Dr. Kendall Ho (Director, eHealth Strategy Office) gave a lecture discussing the role of eHealth in hospital and health care system reform. The second knowledge sharing session was delivered by Dr.Elizabeth Bryce(Director of Infection Control, Vancouver Coastal Health) focused around hospital infections and the best practices for controlling them.
The half-day forum was concluded with a Discussion that allowed for the China delegation to share their insights on the two presentations made.
