The Vancouver Pharmacy Production Centre (VPPC) was officially opened yesterday, marking a major milestone for health care providers across VCH, PHSA and PHC and a big step forward for the Clinical and Systems Transformation (CST) project.
News - 2016
Nov. 24, 2016
Launch of Vancouver Pharmacy Production Centre a major milestone for care providers
Oct. 25, 2016
A doctor gets real about CST
Why better data will lead to better patient care, according to Dr. Charles Lo, an anesthesiologist at St. Paul's and Mount St. Joseph hospitals.
"What the project promises for us is the opportunity to collect meaningful and high quality data, and I think that is really the next frontier in terms of health care improvement.”
Oct. 12, 2016
VIDEO: Get the lowdown on CST in a short animation
Not sure what the Clinical & Systems Transformation project is all about?
Watch this two-minute animation to learn more.
Aug. 24, 2016
Dedicated to Sea to Sky
Cindy Sellers has given nearly 40 years to VCH as a nurse and manager of the Sea to Sky sites.
Learn why she's looking forward to the changes that will be brought about by the Clinical and Systems Transformation (CST) project.
Jul. 13, 2016
VIDEO: Get in the loop!
Get a look at the future of medication administration in this video, which goes through the clinical process of closed loop medication management.
Jul. 13, 2016
Injecting safer practices into medication administration
A large-scale shift is coming to Nursing and Pharmacy, with the introduction of bedside barcode scanning to verify medications before they are administered to patients.
Jun. 17, 2016
Keeping the patient story flowing with front-end speech recognition
Did you notice that doctor, standing over there, talking to himself? He hasn’t cracked under the pressure. He’s using a microphone to dictate his notes directly into the clinical information system.
May. 3, 2016
All thanks to a broken fibula
Phil Sweeney has a broken fibula to thank for his career as a physiotherapist.
As a kid in New Zealand, Phil broke his leg while playing rugby. It took three months for his leg to heal, which included six weeks of physiotherapy. He recovered just in time for a rugby trip to Australia.
To a young Phil, physiotherapy seemed like a pretty neat thing to do.
