#QualityChat

Are you passionate about improving how health care is delivered? Come to #QualityChat! We invite all health care professionals, patients, organizations, educators and social media types to join our online conversation.

#QualityChat is a one-hour conversation over Twitter that takes place on the last Wednesday of every month at 0900 PST. Each month’s chat will feature a new guest host and topic related to improving quality of care.

To learn more or get started on Twitter refer to our Twitter for Health Care Professionals guide.

Sign up to receive updates!

How to Join Twitter

1. Create a profile on www.twitter.com (it’s free).
2. Think of a short Twitter handle that describes you best. Stay away from using numbers or underscores and try to keep it fewer than 15 characters. Don’t worry if you cannot decide on one – it’s very easy to change your handle at any time
3. Upload a photo to your Twitter profile.
4. Write a short description of yourself on your Twitter Profile.
5. Follow those that interest you. This includes organizations (for those of us in BC, here are some examples: @bcpsqc @VCHhealthcare, @Providence_Hlth, @Fraserhealth, @VanIslandHealth, @Interior_Health, @Northern_Health, @VanIslandHealth) and people(@ck4q @helenbevan @tweetvandijk @ajay4quality). And you can find others by checking out who is using hashtags like #healthcare or #bchc.
6. Now you’re ready to send out your first tweet!
7. When in doubt about how and what to tweet, refer to your organization’s guidelines on using Twitter and social media.
8. See how others write tweets and learn from them.

How to join a #QualityChat

1. We recommend using a tool like Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to organize your Twitter feed by groups of people who share a common interest/theme (called lists) or to search tweets for relevant hashtags.
2. Create a stream (in Hootsuite) or column (in TweetDeck) that is dedicated to search for #QualityChat. This way, the stream will only display tweets that contain the hashtag #QualityChat.
3. Stay tuned for updates! @BCPSQC will tweet info about upcoming Twitter chats. We’ll let you know about chat moderators, topics, interesting resources, etc.
4. At 0900 PST on the last Wednesday of every month, get ready to tweet! You can send tweets any way you choose (though Twitter.com, Hootsuite, TweetDeck, etc.), but we recommend using TweetChat.com. This website is free, doesn’t require you to sign-up, and will display all the #QualityChat tweets in an easy-to-follow, chatroom-like format. Don’t worry, @BCPSQC will tweet a link to the chat right before it begins.

Other Tweetchats

You can prepare for #QualityChat by checking out these other Twitter Chats:

• #HCSMCA
• #TwitJC
• #NHSchange