FRENCH COMING SOON CFPC members , Dr. Richard Birtwhistle MD, CCFP, FCFP and Dr. Karim Keshavjee MD, CCFP provided the opening plenary presentations about the progress of the CPCSSN initiative at the 5th Annual Practice Based Research Network Conference hosted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), June 24-26, 2009 in Bethesda, Maryland.  The presentations shared details […]

FRENCH COMING SOON Jyoti Kotecha’s “A Canadian Primary Care Chronic Disease Sentinel Surveillance” poster will be presented during the 20th Canadian Bioethics Society Conference in Hamilton, ON on June 12-13, 2009

FRENCH COMING SOON Dr. Karim Keshavjee will present “Developing a primary care chronic disease surveillance network in Canada: Health informatics challenges and proposed solutions” at e-Health 2009: Leadership in Action on June 2, 2009.

FRENCH COMING SOON Dr. Richard Birtwhistle & Dr. Karim Keshavjee are announced as the keynote speakers at the upcoming AHRQ PBRN meeting in June in Washington DC.

FRENCH COMING SOON Updated CPCSSN website draft now available.

FRENCH COMING SOON Dr. Karim Keshavjee presents “Electronic Records: a challenge to our current surveillance approaches?” at the PHAC conference – Using Provincial & Territorial Health Administrative Data for Chronic Disease Surveillance – Challenges and Opportunities in Ottawa, ON.

FRENCH COMING SOON Dr. Karim Keshavjee presents “Failure of Electronic Medical Records in Canada: A Failure of Policy or a Failure of Technology?” at the Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH) conference in Victoria, BC.

FRENCH COMING SOON All four CPCSSN related submissions to the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CASHPR) conference in Calgary for May were accepted! A Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN): initial development and privacy issues – Manca & Kotecha Towards a primary care-based sentinel surveillance system for chronic disease in Canada: […]