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Patient Education Network
Princess Margaret Hospital
Collaborations
The Patient Education Network collaborates with health care providers, patients, community, university and industry partners in developing responsive patient education initiatives. The program provides leadership in the assessment, design, delivery and evaluation of institutional education curricula, in order to ensure high quality educational efforts. Additionally, education staff offers support in identifying methods of analysis to evaluate patient satisfaction and patient outcomes to ensure that patients’ needs are being met.
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
The Centre for Global eHealth Innovation was created in October 2000 as a joint initiative of the University Health Network (UHN), the largest hospital grouping in Canada, consisting of the Princess Margaret, Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals, and the University of Toronto (U of T), Faculty of Medicine. These institutions realized that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are having a major impact on health, research and education.
The Centre has been designed to provide innovators with expertise in ICTs, the social sciences, and health knowledge management, with access to resources that do not exist anywhere else in the world for the study of eHealth Innovation.
jack digital productions
Founded in 1996, jack digital productions (JDP) is an innovative multimedia development, production, and publishing company focused on creating unique products that promote and improve education. Emerging as a leader in the New Media industry, JDP has established a reputation for providing comprehensive and credible information in the medical education field.
Their flagship program, the Oncology Interactive™ Education Series, represents the realization of a clear vision that sets the standard for interactive medical education.
Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN)
The Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) is composed of cancer Patient Education Network leaders from National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centres across the United States. The CPEN was established in 1989 by the National Cancer Institute's Patient Education Branch (PEB) and provides a formal mechanism for the exchange of information among cancer patient educators to improve the management and delivery of patient education services.
CPEN core values are to:
- Enhance the ability of cancer educators to educate diverse audiences
- Provide a forum for sharing information about evidence-based cancer practice
- Foster excellence in the development, implementation, administration, and evaluation of cancer Patient Education Networks
- Guide and empower members in advocating for cancer education and serving as cancer education leaders
Canadian Cancer Patient Education Network (C-CPEN)
Over the past 3 three years, PMH has played an important role in developing a comprehensive Oncology Patient Education Network (PEP). In doing so, PMH has received a great deal of support and guidance from the NCI CPEN of which we are now the first non-US member.
This outstanding experience has urged PMH to look at the status of cancer patient education in Canadian Cancer Centres and to identify possible networking opportunities. As a first step, PMH completed a Patient Education Assessment Survey in Cancer Centres across Canada. And, in November 2002, the First Canadian Patient Education Symposium was held with the generous support of Ortho Biotech. A national steering committee has been established in order to develop a Canadian Cancer Patient Network (C-CPEN).
