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2nd Annual TEC Vancouver May 15th!

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The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with a powerful lens to look at our health system and services in fresh ways, resulting in innovations that transform individual care and health system service delivery. We want you to be inspired by sharing experiences that have improved patient care across the continuum. Please join us and also bring your own inspirations to share.

TEC Vancouver 2021 (Technologies in Emergency Care)

Innovations in Emergency Medicine: From COVID to Sustainability

May 15 (Sat) | 0815–1230 PDT +Add to Calendar
Target audience: family physicians, emergency physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, allied health professionals, healthcare administrators, policy makers, residents & students.
Up to 3.25 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 creditsCourse Webpage | Registration Form

Why attend and what can I takeaway?

  • Learn tips and pearls to apply digital health in your practice today.
  • Explore innovations in emergency care delivery and education which you can use tomorrow.
  • Discuss with peers how digital health will impact the future of healthcare delivery and health professionals.
  • Hear what health leaders are thinking and acting in using digital health to shape the future.

Conference Co-chairs:

Dr. Kendall Ho is a practicing emergency medical specialist, Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, and the Lead of the Digital Emergency Medicine Unit. He is the medical director of the Healthlink BC Virtual Physicians program called HEiDi. He is also the lead of the Real Time Virtual Support pillar of the BC Emergency Medicine Network.
Dr. Chris Lee is an emergency physician at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Urgent Care Centre, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine. He is currently the Associate Department Head and Medical Director for Emergency Medicine at VGH and UBCH. In addition, Dr. Lee also serves as the Lead Physician for Disaster Management at VGH, and has interests in disaster preparedness, medical technology, and innovation.
Dr. Chad Kim Sing is an Emergency Physician, practicing for 14 years.  He is Associate Vice President of Medicine, Quality, & Safety and Co-Vice President of Pandemic Response for Vancouver Coastal Health.  He is passionate about medical staff leadership and development, and bringing multidisciplinary stakeholders together to meaningfully advance and improve patient and provider care and experiences.

Featured Presenters:

Dr. Riyad Abu-Laban is the Scientific Director of the BC Emergency Medicine Network, and oversees a program focussed on optimizing the ability of the EMN to evaluate the system and patient care impact of its activities and function as a true Learning Health System. He is a Royal College certified Emergency Physician at Vancouver General Hospital and a Professor in the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine, where he served as Research Director until 2020.
Dr. Teresa Chan is an associate professor at McMaster University. Currently, she is the Assistant Dean, Program for Faculty Development in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster. Additionally, she serves as the Social Media Lead for the McMaster Department of Medicine.
Dr. Heather Lindsay is the Department Head and Medical Director of Emergency Medicine for Vancouver Acute within Vancouver Coastal Health. She has an interest and training in health leadership, informatics, and quality improvement. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, and developed the inaugural QI curriculum for the Emergency Medicine residency training program.
Dr. John Pawlovich is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Practice at University of British Columbia (UBC). He is currently the director of the Rural Education Action Plan in British Columbia, the Medical Director for Carrier Sekani Family Services and the Telehealth Sector Lead for the Rural Coordination Center of BC.

AND MORE!

For the complete list of speakers, please visit our website at https://ubccpd.ca/tec2021

Join the conversation:
#TECvan21

VGH ED Launches ED LIVE!

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At Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), we are always seeking new opportunities to lead innovation for high-quality patient care.

That’s why we are so excited to announce that on March 9, Vancouver General Hospital’s (VGH) Emergency Department (ED) was named as a MEDTEQ+ Beachhead™ Centre of Excellence and living lab site.  

The MEDTEQ+ Beachhead™program connects its network of Canadian and international centres of excellence and industry partners to test and develop new health-care innovations, such as technologies, ideas or work flows, in clinical settings and in real time.

As innovations are proven successful on site, they are seamlessly brought into practice, leading to faster improvements in patient care.

Beachhead (definition): An initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments.

“Innovation is a strategic priority at Vancouver Coastal Health,” says Dr. Christopher Lee, VGH’s MD, MSc Disaster Med., FRCPC Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine. “We value our role as a leader in bringing evidence-based innovation into the delivery of the best emergency and trauma care.”

See the full story here.

TEC Vancouver rapidly approaching!

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Join us November 2nd for the inaugural event!

See the recent VCH News article:

Join the conversation on innovation

On November 2, 2019, clinicians as well as health care students, policy-makers, and administrators will gather at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) for TEC Vancouver: a one-day conference by clinicians for clinicians. A joint-collaboration by the UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health, the Department of Emergency Medicine at VGH, and the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundations, the event aims to bring health professionals, health organizational and industry leaders together to discuss the application of digital technologies to solve real life challenges.

“This is a great opportunity for health care professionals around the organization to hear about how technology is being applied in our everyday work,” says emergency physician Dr. Kendall Ho. “To be able to network with like-minded colleagues not only from VCH but other health authorities to generate ideas and generate dialogue is a great way for us to find new solutions and approaches to delivering health care in both primary and acute care settings.”

World-class speakers and panels

The conference includes an impressive lineup of speakers that in their diverse roles, are enabling innovation in healthcare. Speakers include:

  • Keynote address from Dr. Shez Partovi on “Healthcare in the Cloud”, Worldwide Lead, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Genomics, Amazon Web Services, the conference
  • Darcia Pope, Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer, VCH
  • Megan Stowe, Executive Director for Virtual Health and Clinical Education, VCH
  • CST’s Dr. Damian Claydon-Platt, Chief Clinical Information Officer, IMITS VPP, VCH, PHSA, & PHC and Executive Lead, Clinical Systems + Transformation Project, CST
  • Dr. Douglas Kingsford, Chief Medical Information Officer, Digital health Initiative, BC Ministry of Health
  • And many more!

VGH ED hosts 1st conference on technology in emergency medicine!

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Announcing the inaugural Technologies in Emergency Care – TEC Vancouver Conference 2019 bringing together clinicians, health professionals and health leaders to explore clinical gaps and how technologies can be used to solve real life challenges in primary and emergency health services in BC and beyond.

This conference will:

  • Share knowledge on existing & emerging innovative health technologies to improve patient care, health provider work & education relevant to the Emergency Department and beyond
  • Identify & address real life clinical problems & challenges in order to find novel solutions
  • Clarify & share pathways for health technology innovations, from design to implementation and commercialization, with clinicians, policy makers, industry leaders and health administrators

Dr. Kendall Ho featured speaker at VCH Innovations in Health Care

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Join the Innovations in Health Care, Vancouver’s first All-Staff Forum of 2018. Developed in consultation with staff and physicians, this interactive forum on high tech in health care will be held on Wednesday, February 28 (2 to 3 pm), followed by an Innovation Fair from 3 to 4 pm.

Bring your curiosity and questions about achieving breakthroughs in care with high-tech help, and learn from stories shared by your Vancouver acute and community colleagues. Details here.

Emergency Department Wins at People First Awards!

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Congratulations to all of the People First Winners!

Award of Excellence in Innovation:

  • Dr. Kendall Ho, Emergency Physician, Vancouver General Hospital & TEC4Home Lead

Award of Excellence in Teamwork and Collaboration :

  • Mobile Medical Unit Deployment Team, Vancouver Acute & Vancouver Community:
    Lori Korchinski, Afshan Nathoo, Miranda Compton, Dr. Eric Grafstein, Michelle de Moor, Dr. Keith Ahamad, Dr. Annabel Mead, Caitlin Etherington, Dr. Stan de Vlaming, Tim Chu, Ross Maguire, Marsha Simons, Joe Acker, Peter Hennecke, Krista Golden, Nathanial Lim

Award of Merit in Teamwork and Collaboration :

  • Chest Pain Working Group, Emergency, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver Acute:
    Lori Korchinski, Jaime Gallagher, Susan Harrison Salt, Sarah Turner, Lori Quinn, Cassie Wright, Sean Freeze, Bruce Hartnett, Dr. Heather Lindsay, Dr. Tong Lam, Dr. Chad Kim Sing, Erin Collins, Liz Crane, Darlene Davelaar, Christine Davie, Carole Dion, Michelle Dodds, Suzanne Fayle, Tracy Johnson, Tony Kumar, Gertrude Lee, Scott Maher, Penny Merletti, Trang Nguyen, Simona Pavlikova, Suzanne Pell, Evangeline Portillo, Jean Power, Gosha Roman, Sinead Ryan, Joanne Scott, Heather Sengara, Alexia Simeoni, Lindsey Bott, Angela Tait, Lindsay Tarasoff, John Tino, Veronica Tsang, Cindy Vanderbyl, Tracy Visser, Adrienne Zawyrucha, Carole Stevens, The Heart Services Cardiology Technologist team

Read more about their accomplishments here.

Dr. Kendall Ho wins the 2016 Canadian Health Informatics Association Clinician Leadership award!

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Congratulations to Dr. Kendall Ho for receiving the 2016 Canadian Health Informatics Association Clinician Leadership award!

This award recognizes a clinician who has shown leadership in Canada in advancing the use of health Information Communication Technology (ICT) and informatics or telehealth in clinical practice resulting in improved provider and patient experiences and outcomes. 

This award was presented on June 7th at the National eHealth conference banquet. Please click the following link to read more on the award and view the list of Canadian Health Informatics Awards Gala (CHIA) winners: 

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APPtitude!

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Welcome to the second edition of APPtitude.

Most of you are probably already familiar with PediStat, another app by QxMD (there is no sponsorship, I promise). This app is the Broselow tape for the 21st century. It is extremely intuitive, and highly useful at the bedside for physicians you work frequently with children, and more importantly for us, those who see them rarely.

The first screen allows you to enter either the patient’s age, weight, Broselow colour or even length.

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Then you’re given a short list of categories that make it easy to find the exact drug dosing that you want for your patient. No more calculating and re-calculating doses on the back of a glove!

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This is one of the few apps I paid money for. It is currently $3.49 available for iPhone and Android.

 

 

APPtitude!

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Welcome to a new feature of the VGH website. On a bi-monthly basis, we’ll post recommendations and reviews of apps that may be of interest to the emergency physician. Most will be medically related, but some will be favourites that just may make your life a little easier overall.

This week, we’re going to start off with a very common app that most emergency physicians are aware of.

Read by QxMD

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This app is perfect for anyone who has ever thought “I wish I could just get sent the most relevant articles out of all of the journals I’m interested in, without having to subscribe to every one and read through them all.” That’s exactly what this app does. When you first open it, you can choose journals, specialities, or “collections” to follow. Collections are created by users, and may have a more specific focus (ie Trauma or Anticoagulation).

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There is a huge article database powered by PubMed, and it is easy to access to full text by setting up your UBC account. Articles can also be saved for later consumption and reference, and tagged to help keep articles organized. There is also an option for commenting and favouriting articles, which means that when you open the app, the “featured papers” in your specialty show up first, giving you first glance at the articles that are currently most relevant and most discussed among your peers.IMG_0022