Connecting for Quality: Social Media and Health Care
Event Information
Description
Are you a health care provider or family caregiver?
Do you have ideas of how social media can be used to improve health care and patient safety in BC?
Come to a free public forum to share your ideas!
The eHealth Strategy Office and BC Patient Safety & Quality Council are inviting health care providers and family care-givers to join us for an evening of idea sharing.
We want to hear your ideas of how social media can be used to improve health care.
This is an interactive event with idea sharing through real-time voting, Twitter, and video.
Sign-in and reception at 6pm.
Sessions:
Social Media and Health Care in BC
Dr. Kendall Ho (eHealth Strategy Office, University of British Columbia)
Christina Krause (Executive Director, BC Patient Safety & Quality Council)
Residential Care and Polypharmacy
Dr. Keith White (Physician Lead, Polypharmacy in the Elderly Initiative, BCMA/MoH Shared Care Committee)
Opening remarks by the Honourable Terry Lake, Minister of Health
Moderated by Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun
To attend via webinar (no ticket necessary), go to:
http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/9888aafc71564af98bc28f448aa24e871d
#sm4health to join the conversation on Twitter - upload a video or photo of your ideas for a chance to win a ticket to Health Talks!