Summer Camp

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eHealth Summer Camp 2012

2nd eHealth Summer Camp registration opens March 26

It’s still March, but for us it feels like summer’s here already. Hot on the heels of the successful first year of the UBC Faculty of Medicine eHealth Summer Camp, registration for this year’s camp starts Monday, March 26, 2012! We are happy to report that TELUS is back as a generous sponsor of the […]

A midsummer’s excursion into the future of health care

A midsummer’s excursion into the future of health care

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 […]

eHealth Summer Camp in Healthcare Information Management and Communications Magazine

eHealth Summer Camp in Healthcare Information Management and Communications Magazine

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.

Camp Feedback WordCloud - All Text Feedback

Campers on their experience of the summer camps

Our communications guru, Dan, suggested I run the summer camper qualitative feedback through Wordle to see if the word clouds reveal some trends and themes. They certainly did, so I’ve included them here.   A summary of the quantitative evaluations on the key questions from camp was a lovely reward after all the work of […]

eHealth Summer Camp in  Review  by TELUS TV

eHealth Summer Camp in Review by TELUS TV

TELUS TV visited the eHealth Summer Camp and reporter Ryan Leigh did a wonderful review of the camp activities. This video clip was for the TELUS myVancouver Community Station. [flv width=”640″ height=”480″]http://video.med.ubc.ca/videos/ehealth/summercamp/Telus_Health_Camp.flv[/flv]

Smartphone Application Development at Summer Camp

eHealth Summer Campers on OMNI News (in Mandarin)

In addition to the article in the Globe and Mail, the local OMNI News BC came to our summer camp last week, as well. For our readers who speak Mandarin, you can listen to some of the summer campers, Eric Zhou, Nina Sun and May Wang, talk about their experience at the eHealth Young Innovators […]

Exploring the ultrasound with Dr Kendall Ho, Emergency Physician at VGH

Summer Camp photos

We have a Flickr site for our photos taken at camp (thanks, Dan, for setting this up): http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehealthstrategy/ What a great bunch of campers! And so photogenic, too 😉

Programming apps at the eHealth Summer Camp

eHealth Summer Camp in the Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail ran a nice article this morning about the eHealth Young Innovators Summer Camp that was coordinated by our office and sponsored by TELUS. It was a real pleasure to host the camp at UBC, and we are so pleased to have this feedback from the students and the press. Harvey Zhang, […]