Webinar: Cancer Screening & Increasing Access through Real-World Connection

Join BC Cancer’s Health Promotion team to explore how community engagement and bringing simple digital health tools into the field can help decrease barriers to cancer screening. Learn actionable insights from a community-based pilot that uses co-designed and adaptive approaches to address social, economic and environmental factors while fostering human connection!

Event Details:

• Date: Thursday April 9th
• Time: 5:00-6:00pm PT
• Location: Online - Zoom 

BCHIMSS Members attend free. Non‑members: $5. Everyone is welcome!

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Speakers

Javis Lui: Javis Lui is the Health Promotion Manager for BC Cancer’s Prevention, Screening and Hereditary Cancer Program. He is responsible for population-level health promotion activities include community-based engagement, addressing health inequities, and increasing understanding of important cancer prevention risk factors and screening tests.

Trang Nguyen: Trang Nguyen is a Health Promotion Specialist with BC Cancer’s Prevention, Screening and Hereditary Cancer Program. She uses evidence-based approaches to raise awareness about cancer prevention and promote BC’s screening services to the public. Through partnerships and community outreach, she works to increase cancer screening participation and support the understanding of cancer prevention and lifestyle choices to reduce cancer risk.

Member & Non-Member Registration

Admission to this event is free for members. We encourage you to consider BCHIMSS membership to join our engaged community of BC digital health professionals and take advantage of savings on our other regular networking and learning events!

For professionals, consider signing up for chapter membership for just $39 USD to enjoy exclusive member rates for this event and free access to all of our virtual events throughout the year.

For students, HIMSS offers a comprehensive membership for only $30 USD, which includes all the benefits of full HIMSS membership, access to chapter events, and additional resources tailored for students entering the healthcare informatics field. 

Learn more about individual and student membership and sign up here.

Organizational Affiliate Membership

All employees of our chapter Organizational Affiliate members can automatically get free full regular BCHIMSS membership:

• Providence Health Care

• Provincial Health Services Authority

• British Columbia Institute of Technology

You must sign up for organizational affiliate membership using your work email through the following organizational affiliate link, and select the British Columbia chapter as your preferred chapter during the registration process: My Portal HIMSS - Organizational Affiliate Membership

If you have questions or need help with your organizational affiliate membership registration, please email us at britishcolumbia.info@himsschapter.org!

About BCHIMSS

BCHIMSS is the British Columbia chapter of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), a global advisor, thought leader and member-based society committed to reforming the global health ecosystem through the power of information and technology. As a mission-driven nonprofit, HIMSS offers a unique depth and breadth of expertise in health innovation, public policy, workforce development, research and digital health transformation to advise leaders, stakeholders and influencers across the global health ecosystem on best practices. With a community-centric approach, our innovation engine delivers key insights, education and engaging events to healthcare providers, payers, governments, startups, life sciences and other health services organizations, ensuring they have the right information at the point of decision.

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