Are you tired of just working at your desk? Do you dream of ways of how technology can help create healthier communities? Are you looking for examples of how technology is enabling healthier communities across the province?
A keen group of participants who answered “yes” to the questions above gathered this morning at the technology session at TOPHC to learn about three concrete examples of how technology is enabling healthier communities.
Amanda Mongeon started the session by giving us a tour of a unique way the Timiskaming Health Unit is engaging the community to create a healthier Timiskaming. Visit http://www.healtytimiskaming.ca/ to see how the community is taking ownership of their health matters.
Eileen de Villa, associate medical officer of health from Peel Public Health gave us a tour of SIMID – tool to enable visualization of the dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks over time and space. The tool provides public health officials and key decision makers with more effective local infectious disease outbreak planning tools. You can see the presentation here.
Ken Hudson from infiteSpaces, at Loyalist College and Jean Terhaar from Hastings and Prince Edward Counties health unit talked about Sloshed – a game to promote the negative impact of binge drinking among students in a fun, humourous, non-judgemental and non-preaching fashion. You can play the game at: http://www.sloshedthegame.com/.
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