Historic first day
The first eHealth summer camp for high-school students opened today… We set up websites, learned to take blood pressure/ heart rate and other vitals, looked at exercise zones and visited the TELUS Innovation Centre on Robson Street, which got a great rap. Here are some student thoughts: “I really liked the TELUS Innovation Centre as […]
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BCATPR Knowledge Translation Event Brings together Researchers, Knowledge Users and Patients
On June 14th the eHealth Strategy Office presented early findings from the CIHR funded Home-Based Telehealth for Chronic Disease Management to over 30 participants, including patients, patient advocates, clinicians, policy makers, researchers and representatives from the health information business community. This interactive and user-driven session was an important opportunity to hear from the future users of the knowledge synthesis.
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Global Health Summit Series: China-Canada Health Academic Forum
On June 6th 2011, the eHealth Strategy Office hosted the inaugural event of it's Global Health Summit Series. Held at UBC Health Care Diamond Centrer, a delegation of 17 guests from China consisting of senior hospital executives, administrators and provincial government officials, attended an Health Academic Forum focused on hospital management issues, hospital infection control and eHealth.
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eHIPP Rounds, June 16, 2011: Practicing Social Media in Health and Medicine
Social media have entered professional practice in many sectors, and health care and research are no exception. This discussion will introduce some of the most commonly used social media -- Blogs, Twitter and Facebook -- and provide examples of their use in health care practice and research.
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