Unleashing the #hcsmca crowd: What can crowdsourcing do for health care?

This week Saint Elizabeth Health Care is hosting an event and they’d like  to involve the #hcsmca community to take part both during the event and to extend the conversation post event. I’ve invited Christine Stewart to explain.

By Christine Stewart (@StElizabethSEHC and @CareToKnowORG)

The power of engagement is the ability of an individual to have a say, make an impact, and to contribute in ways that were never before possible.

As guest moderator of this week’s #hcsmca chat (October 17, 2012), I’m excited that the chat will follow an exciting event happening the day before. Saint Elizabeth Health Care is hosting Crowdsourcing for Health Innovation on October 16th in Toronto. This event will explore how to engage more Canadians in health care through crowdsourcing, or crowd-accelerated innovation.

The big question after this event is: Now what? How can we turn the learnings from one afternoon into something…