BCATPR Workshop 2011 Review and Highlights
This year’s workshop focused on the exciting theme of People-friendly technology solutions for chronic disease management. The workshop was held on, 14 June 2011. At Simon Fraser University - Harbour Centre and moderated by Joanna Bates. It was a great success with 80 attendees.
Workshop Reviews
“I would like to congratulate the group on its progress in 5 years - it is clearly visible. Keep up the good work.” Health Authority Member
“Not only hearing about current practice but also having an introduction to what is coming up that is new and exciting in the field.” Government Member
“Topics of relevance to issues that we are struggling with at the level of health authority service provision, and especially in relation to using new models of care to improve service delivery and access to care.” Health Authority Member
Workshop Highlights
David Pattenden, Director, Healthcare - Microsoft of Canada was our first speaker.
David’s session explored how technilogies can be utilized to help prevent chronic illness and empower patients with chronic disease to manage their conditions. With advancements in medical devices and commodity software, it is becoming easier and more cost effective to deliver on-line and mobile applications to consumers to fulfill key telehealth scenarios. Arming patients with shared care plan, biometric devices, and on-line tools can help to extend the relationship between the patient and the provider into the home, and help track and manage illness. Drawing from international examples, his session highlighted interesting technologies and telehealth use cases covering prevention, wellness and chronic disease management.
“Mr Pattenden's presentation, I felt it was on point, relevant, varied, and paced appropriately for the audience.” Health Authority Member
“Hearing from Mr. Pattenden and learning about all of the possibilities. Interesting to hear about Microsoft's health mission as well.” Health Authority Member
Dr. Ehud Ur, Head, UBC Division of Endocrinology, Vancouver General Hospital & St. Paul's Hospital was scheduled as our second speaker but was unable to make it due to illness. We look forward to possibly hearing from Dr. Ur at another workshop in the future.
Dr. Scott Lear, Pfizer/Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair in Cardiovascular Prevention Research at St. Paul's Hospital and Team Leader, BCATPR was our second speaker.
Dr. Lear's session focused on the BCATPR and management of chronic diseases through the iCDM study. The iCDM study is working to reduce hospitalization and improve over all patient care through the internet.
Margarita Loyola, Manager of Telehealth, Vancouver Island Health Authority and Loretta Zilm, Telehealth Coordinator, Interior Health Authority were our third presentation.
Their session was a joint presentation about the telehealth service implementation experience in VIHA and IHA. TeleHome monitoring is the use of patient managed in-home devices that capture important patient data that can be monitored by health care providers. The experiences of TeleHome Monitoring technology at both VIHA and IHA will be shared. Preliminary analysis confirms that Emergency Department visits, Hospital admissions and In-Patient length of stay can be decreased. Feedback from patients has been consistently positive and demonstrates that they are empowered and enjoy participating in the care of their disease.
“Networking was very useful and I had not anticipated it, so a nice surprise” Health Authority Member
The pre-workshop presentation on Home-Based Telehealth for Chronic Disease Management: An interactive presentation of early findings started the morning off at 8:00am.
The presentation focused on early findings from the CIHR funded Home-Based Telehealth for Chronic Disease Management Knowledge Synthesis, and was led by Principal Investigator Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger. The goal of this participatory knowledge synthesis project was to develop recommendations and findings that are directly applicable to a wide variety of users.
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