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 be more collaborative and listen better to others. We will include the voice of the patient.
The question is, “How can we become more collaborative, listen better to others and include the voice of the patient in our work this year?”
Part of our solution is to revive #IPChat and encourage collaboration, listening, and inclusion of the patient’s voice, via this monthly tweetchat focusing on interprofessionalism in health care.
As we have seen with the incredible growth around the #HCSMCA community this past year, twitter and other social media channels are popular places for collaboration and discussion of healthcare topics. The conversations on health are very interesting and often include patients and health care professionals sharing information and/or HCPs sharing best practices across vast distances.
This inclusivity and real-time collaboration is what we hope to be able to foster during IPChat over the next few years.
Please join us this Wednesday January 25th at 2PM ET for the RETURN OF IPChat!
We will be discussing what topics and ideas are important to the IPE/C communities, how we can best become a resource for the community, and how we can best assist in growing the community over time.
Your comments and questions are welcomed.
I will be posting a simple ‘How To Participate in #IPChat’ later today.
