Background
China has experienced rapid economic growth and development performances for the last 3 decades; however, its size, currently 1.3 billion people, and the effects of environment, living behaviour, and an aging population are putting a great strain on China’s health care system. Therefore, the Chinese government has launched major reforms for their health care system that will address critical problems, including across-the-board expansion of health services for people in both urban and rural areas by 2020.
Purpose
Over the past few years, the eHealth Strategy Office has been working closely with China’s different health care partners to collaborate in policy engagement, eHealth education, clinical research, training, and institutional partnerships.
These joint efforts have the potential to result in improvements to China’s health care services and education, and may help position China as a world leader in health care services that can help guide other countries with similar challenges.
The eHealth Strategy Office looks forward to contributing our academic experiences and technical resources, together with our international network of partners, to offer assistance to China during this important initiative for health system reform.
Objectives
The objectives of our China collaborations include:
- Enhancing Canada-China stakeholder relationships in health care by building institutional linkages.
- Forming enduring international healthcare information exchange platforms to bring key stakeholders and experts together
- To provide training and educational programs for family physicians, public health management, hospital management and health informatics and eHealth.
- Building international capacity for academic research and public health education.
- To achieve equity in health access, service and education in rural China, using eHealth technology.
- Strengthening and supporting the efforts of China’s rural health system reform.
- Working collaboratively to build scalable and sustainable health care services and education that support both urban and rural areas.
Through collaboration with China, we hope that we can not only provide support to our Chinese population in BC and Canada, but also that we can share our skills to acheive mutual benefits through international cooperation.
Recent Posts
UBC China Council launched
UBC has now officially established the UBC China Council, a commitment that will strengthen UBC long-standing engagement with one of the most dynamic nations in the world and reaffirm UBC as the pre-eminent Canadian university collaborating with China. Dr. Kendall Ho, director of eHealth Strategy Office, is one of the UBC China Council members. For […] Read More >
Capacity building of health professionals in eHealth: Six high impact domains
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, […] Read More >
A delegation from Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau visited Faculty of Medicine
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 […] Read More >
The second China-Canada Health Academic Forum
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 […] Read More >
Photos with delegation from Health and Human Resources Development Centre, Ministry of Health China
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 […] Read More >
Diabetes Prevention and Management Workshop in Guangzhou, China
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 […] Read More >
Three Key Trends in e-Health that cannot be missed in Chinese Health Reform
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, […] Read More >
The third international Brain Health Forum 2011 (China)
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 […] Read More >
eHealth Strategy Office to collaborate with China in developing a mobile medical biometrics monitoring & communication system
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 […] Read More >
Shanghai Pudong Public Health & Primary Care Training
On behalf of Faculty of Medicine, eHealth Strategy office organized two days Public Health & Primary Care training program on Oct.27 and Oct. 28, a delegation of 20 from China Shanghai Pudong Health Bureau commitmentted and participated in the Public Health and Primary Care Training Program, focused on primary care, public Health, eHealth, disease infection […] Read More >