TEC Conference

🌟 Great News from BC's After Hours Care Program! 🌟 Our initiative is making a significant impact, connecting over 597,000 patients with urgent care when their family doctor isn't available. In its first year, 584 physicians and nurse practitioners joined, reducing ER visits by 81% and walk-in clinic visits by 58%! Thanks to support from the Family Practice Services Committee and HealthLink BC, we're excited to expand this vital service across BC. With 2,788 virtual encounters already completed, both patients and providers are seeing the benefits. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gq-EtCdx #HealthCareAccess #AfterHoursCare #BCHealth #FPSC #UPCC

Don't forget to set your clocks back this Sunday, Nov 3, 2024! At 2:00 AM, we’ll fall back to 1:00 AM as we switch to standard time. Enjoy brighter mornings and darker evenings! #DigEM #iCON #DaylightSavingTime #FallBack #WinterTime

Upcoming Event: Essential Digital Health for the Underserved: Establishing an Equitable Learning Health System for Virtual Care Wed, Oct 23 at 9 am (PT) Speakers: Dr. Kendall Ho, Lead, Digital Emergency Medicine, UBC Dr. Helen Novak Lauscher, Associate Lead, Digital Emergency Medicine, UBC Ms. Joan Assali, Program Manager, Digital Emergency Medicine, UBC Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gQRJpMxQ #DigEM #TEC #free #webinar

[Upcoming Event] Essential Digital Health for the Underserved: Sept. 17, 12-1 p.m. ET In this session, we will explore the transformative impact of digital health on underserved communities, featuring insights from dozens of authors. We will also dive into two key papers, "Enabling Connected Care with a Person-Centred Data Foundation" and "Human Factor Health Data Interoperability," both of which underscore data’s role in advancing equitable, accessible, and connected care for all Canadians. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gCegHrC7 #TEC #DigEM #UBC #free #event #digital #health #underserved

#Digitalhealth and #virtualcare (DH/VC) interventions have the potential to revolutionize #cdnhealth system by offering a more tailored and efficient way to meet the diverse and evolving health and social care needs of individuals. Paula Voorheis, PhD TEC Conference https://lnkd.in/gsdWqmEr

Current data collection practices in Canada's #digitalhealth systems largely misrepresent or underrepresent diversity across individuals' socio-demographic factors. This can lead to health inequalities and patients feeling unsafe when receiving care. #Interoperability is the only path to accessing comprehensive data about a person that addresses the full spectrum of health information needs for Canadians and their families, clinicians and care teams, health organizations, researchers and health system decision makers. Anne Forsyth, Ann Chapman, Shannon Malovec, Michael Tatto, Mauree Aki Matsusaka TEC Conference https://lnkd.in/gnEkS-mk

#LearningHealthSystems embed social accountability into everyday workflows and can inform how governments build bridges across the #digitalhealth divide. The LHS approach has an advantage in addressing #equity in that the model runs counter to cycles of #blameandshame practised in healthcare organizations when a program does not work as intended or, inevitably, when #systemicinequities are revealed. Sonya Cressman, Ibukun Abejirinde, Joan Assali, Alies Maybee, Michelle Strom, BN MN, Clare Ardern, Ambreen Sayani, Ray Markham TEC Conference https://lnkd.in/dSrQAvgU

Co-creation involves #FirstNations, rural and remote patients collaborating as equal partners with healthcare providers from the start, identifying challenges and jointly developing strategies for equitable and improved health outcomes. John Pawlovich, Ray Markham, Bob Woollard, Sonya Cressman, Arianna Hogan Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc) TEC Conference #digitalhealth #equitymatters https://lnkd.in/g2j2aH3b

Comprehensive #healthdata #interoperability is recognized as an essential element of high-functioning and accountable health service.  Ewan Affleck, Eric Sutherland, Teri Price et al propose a health data interoperability framework articulating the factors that Canada needs to address to optimize health data design to support quality health programs and services. TEC Conference https://lnkd.in/gYTi3gFR

In summary, essential health services should be universally available to a population and those who stand to receive them should have a say in what is on offer, write Kendall Ho, Owen Adams, Ambreen Sayani and Gurleen Cheema in the special issue on Defining “Essential Digital Health for the Underserved”. #digitalhealth #marginalized #underserved #socialdeterminantsofhealth #equitymatters https://lnkd.in/g_4h2Wgb