Watch Quality Forum 2017 Live on Facebook

This year, for the very first time, the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council (BCPSQC) will be broadcasting Health Talks, the Quality Awards ceremony, and the Quality Forum's plenary sessions on Facebook Live during Quality Forum 2017! The events will be available to those who can't attend in person, as part of the Council’s commitment to being Patients Included.

There will be four broadcasts streaming from the BCPSQC’s Facebook page:

Health Talks & Quality Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, March 1
1900 – 2045

Health Talks is one of participants' favourite events at the Forum, where eight speakers share their hopes for health care. The night also features a ceremony to recognize the winners of the BCPSQC’s annual Quality Awards.
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Plenary Presentation
Tiffany Christensen
Thursday, March 2
0820 – 0940

Double lung transplant survivor & author of Sick Girl Speaks
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Plenary Presentation
Lisa Schilling
Friday, March 3
0820 – 0925

Vice President, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Kaiser Permanente
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Plenary Presentation
Dave Matear
Friday, March 3
1445 – 1530

Senior Operating Director, Northern Lights Regional Health Centre & Fort McMurray Area, Alberta Health Services
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Follow the Forum in Real Time on Social Media

We’ll be posting up a storm on social media throughout the Forum, using the hashtags #QF17 and #QFpt. Follow PVN's and BCPSQC's profiles or search for those hashtags to see all the comments, photos, thoughts and quotes posted by the BCPSQC team and many of the event’s 950 participants!

These are all our profiles in case you haven’t followed us yet:

PVN: Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn
BCPSQC: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook , LinkedIn

We’ll also publish a series of blog posts after the Forum about patients’ experiences at the event. Stay tuned, there’s a lot more to come!

There Will Be Patient Partners at the Forum -
Here's What They're Looking Forward To!

There will be 20 PVN Patient Partners attending the Forum! It will be a great learning and networking opportunity, and we’re looking forward to connecting with everyone at the event.

We were curious about what those patients were looking forward to, so we interviewed two of them about their expectations – check out what they said!

Article of Interest:
"Tweet Into Your Next Medical Conference"

Speaking of social media, a recent article in Forbes says that “using it to virtually attend a conference is the next best thing to actually being there in person.”

In the article, Kevin Campbell, a cardiologist, shares why he uses Twitter at conferences and provides a step-by-step guide for those who want to prepare to virtually attend an event. It comes in handy for those who won’t be able to attend Quality Forum 2017, but still want to follow everything that happens there!

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