In one of her final blog posts of 2011, Colleen_Young wrote a piece called #HCSMCA Wishes for 2012. She encouraged members of the Health Care Social Media Canada community to share their ‘wishes’ for the new year in 140 characters or less. Here’s our contribution to the Wishes for 2012: In 2012, my #hcsmca will [...]
#IPChat Returns: January 25th, 2012
2011 has been quite a year for interprofessionalism in Canada, the USA, and beyond! And CIHC is doing its part to continue the amazing dialogue into 2012 by bringing back our popular monthly twitter-based conversation #IPChat! #IPChat will happen on the last Wednesday of every month at 2PM ET (just after #HCSMCA wraps). #IPChat will [...]
International Study for Measurement of Interprofessionl Collaboration
The CIHC Interprofessional Collaboration Competency Framework provides consistent content to guide both learners and practitioners. Although the framework can assist those wanting to know how to demonstrate when IPC is being practiced, it lacks a valid and reliable measure. An international working group from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia [...]
Collaborating Across Borders III, Tucson, Arizona
What a great conference! The biennial Collaborating Across Borders conference was held this year at the sprawling El Conquistador Hotel and Resort in Tucson, Arizona and it was amazing in many ways. Tucson is a stunningly beautiful place and there were so many people attending the conference that the hotel was over-booked and some attendees [...]
Social Media Readiness for Health Care Organizations: Slides
Please check out the presentation, Social Media Readiness for Health Care Organizations, delivered by Sean Cranbury at the Collaborating Across Borders III Conference in Tucson, Arizona on November 20th 2011. Social Media Readiness for Health Care Organizations: Collaborating Across Borders III Conference, Tucson, Az. 2011 View more presentations from Sean Cranbury
Interview with Kamini Kalia RN, MScN. Twitter: @nursekama Website: http://nursekama.com
Why is IP important broadly? As a healthcare system, my concern is that we don’t work efficiently and effectively. We’re not a machine that runs smoothly. One of the solutions to this fragmentation is IPE/IPC. As a clinician I see this fragmentation within in teams but also at a larger [...]
5 Ways that Health Professionals Can Take Back the Internet by Daniel Hooker
One Tuesday May 24th at the new W2 Media Cafe in Vancouver DTES a few brave health care professionals gathered to talk about new ideas in health care and social media. This meeting was held as a part of our growing local group of #HCSMCA (Healthcare Social Media Canada) participants. It should be noted that [...]
UBC’s Health Care Team Challenge
Health Care Team Challenge Background: Introduced at UBC in the 1980’s, the Health Care Team Challenge (HCTC) provides teams of health sciences students (10-12 students in total who may be volunteers but who also may be appointed by faculty members) from different disciplines an opportunity to learn from with and about each other in developing [...]
Talking Interprofessional Collaboration at #HCSMCA on Wednesday April 20th
On Wednesday April 20th at 1PM ET health care practitioners and people interested in healthcare from across Canada and beyond will gather on twitter to participate in the weekly #HCSMCA (Health Care Social Media Canada) conversation. #HCSMCA has been gathering followers and participants – more than 1000 and counting – since it launched in September [...]
Interview with Dr. Christie Newton, Assistant Professor, Department of UBC Family Practice and Director, UBC Health Clinic
Why is IECPCP important on a broad, systems based, level? Basically, the system is failing. Practitioners can’t keep up with the pace of the current healthcare system and I think we’re going to see, and indeed are seeing, burn out in all areas. I say this from my perspective as a family physician but I [...]
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