Qualitycast North
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The Qualitycast North podcast showcases Northern British Columbian physicians and healthcare workers and their work in improving the quality of healthcare where they live. In an interview format, our host Dr. Shyr Chui invites guests to talk about their careers in rural medicine, and how they are improving healthcare through innovative quality improvement projects. Episodes are released every 2 weeks.
Qualitycast North is a production of the Northern Health Physician Quality Improvement initiative, and is co-produced by Dr. Shyr Chui, and PQI Coach Lee Cameron. This Initiative is a flagship program of the Specialist Services Committee which represents a collaborative partnership between our provincial government and Doctors of BC, and includes regular representation from the local health authorities.
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Recent Episodes
S5E16 S5 Ep16: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy - Improving the Patient Experience featuring Dr Graham Bergstra
In this episode we’re returning to the rural community of Hazleton in Northwest BC. The demand for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is increasing as word spreads about its usefulness, but how…
S5E15 S5 Ep15: How health data "stewardship" can drive sustainable healthcare in Canada featuring Anderson Chuck, the President and CEO of CIHI
When you think of Canadian health data, the organization that springs immediately to mind is the Canadian Institute for Health Information or CIHI. In this episode we interview Anderson Chuck, the…
S5E14 S5 Ep14: “The best rural emergency medicine course hands down” featuring Dr. Jel Coward and Dr. Rebecca Lindley from the CARE course
Delivering high-quality, emergency medicine education to rural practitioners and their teams for over 15 years, the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia’s CARE course has been consistently…
S5E13 S5 Ep13: Herding Cats and Steering Ships - Dr. Ronald Chapman
This week we’re returning to the Executive C-Suite this time from a Physician’s perspective with our guest Dr. Ronald Chapman, the Vice President of Medicine of Northern Health. We talk about his…
S5E12 S5 Ep12: Medicine at the Edge Revisited featuring Dr. Ray Markham (originally released Jan 24, 2025)
This week we’re taking a well-deserved week off and so in preparation for this year’s Rural Coordination Centre of BC’s Rural Health Conference to be held in Prince George on May 29-31st, we’re…
S5E11 S5 Ep11: Hope Air - providing life-saving healthcare access and equity for rural communities featuring Mark Rubinstein
One of the largest drivers of health outcome inequity for patients living in rural communities is access to care. This disparity is magnified when combined with low income, reduced patient mobility…
S5E10 S5 Ep10: Kudos and Lullabies – delivering high-impact, large-scale improvement featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock
In this episode, we return to Bulkley Valley District Hospital in Smithers, Northwest BC who, by combining high-level collaboration between local physicians, front line staff and operational leaders…
S5E9 S5 Ep9: Creating capacity "upstream". Keeping COPD patients out of hospital and in the community featuring Donna Jouantapp, Lina Alsakran and Dr. Zoe Pullan
As overfilled hospitals everywhere are struggling to cope with a busy winter of respiratory disease and influenza, many in healthcare are calling for a more “upstream” approach to preventing…
S5E8 S5 Ep8: “Focus on your North Star” - Building Macro-support for Physician-Led Healthcare Quality Improvement featuring Cindy Myles
Listeners will be familiar with the physician-led healthcare quality improvement work featured on this podcast, but they may not be familiar with how this work is formally supported at the Provincial…
S5E7 S5 Ep7: The Success Story of Pathways featuring Drs. Kathleen Ross and Tracy Monk
In our current technological age, the most successful information platforms are those that provide exactly the information the user needs quickly and accurately. This is the underlying premise behind…
S5E6 S5 Ep6: Building Safer Patient Care featuring Christina Krause from Health Quality BC
In this gem of an interview, we chat with Christina Krause, the CEO of Health Quality BC about a whole range of topics around patient safety from the role of Provincial quality and safety…
S5E5 S5 Ep5: Reducing hospital admissions for mental health crises by bridging hospital and community care featuring Alanna Summers, Jennifer Sandberg and Jane Dolan
In this episode we feature another award-winning, quality improvement project this time based in Victoria, Vancouver Island. Our guests are Alanna Summers, Program Manager and a registered…
S5E4 S5 Ep4: "Taking a bite out of health inequity" featuring Dr. Diana Bark and Lara Frederick
In this episode, we head upstream in our health system with this podcast’s first ever guests from the public health sector. Northern Health’s Medical Health Officer Dr. Diana Bark and Director of…
S5E3 S5 Ep3: Optimizing Visiting Specialist Clinics and Equitable Care featuring Dr. Angela How
Visiting specialist clinics are a lifeline for patients with chronic disease in rural and remote communities across the North. They save patients travel time and costs and also provide care in…
S5E2 S5 Ep2: With Great Data Comes Great Responsibility featuring Dr. Cole Stanley and Gayle Grout from Health Data Coalition
Our topic in this episode is the power and potential of good data for improving patient care. In a broad ranging interview with our guests Dr. Cole Stanley and Gayle Grout from Health Data Coalition…
S5E1 S5 Ep1: Goodbye Season 4, Hello Season 5!
As season 4 comes to and end and we enter our 5th year of the podcast with season 5, Shyr and Lee reflect on their favourite highlights from last season. With twice as many episodes as previous…
S4E20 S4 Ep20: What the Mayo Clinic Gets Right featuring Drs. Kalah Blackstock and Dr. John Hwang
From a healthcare quality perspective, you can’t get much better than the Mayo Clinic. Its global reputation for high quality patient care is unsurpassed. But what exactly makes the Mayo Clinic so…
S4E19 S4 Ep19: Order in the Face of Wildfire Chaos featuring Gloria Hertz and John Coyne
Residents in British Columbia are no strangers to wildfires which have increased in number and ferocity over recent years. But when an out-of-control wildfire threatens a town, its residents and its…
S4E18 S4 Ep18: If I don’t do it, who will?” Improving healthcare quality through openness, community engagement and the wisdom of Grandmothers featuring Nicole Cross
This week we’re returning to Northern Health’s C-Suite and interview Nicole Cross, Northern Health’s Vice President of Indigenous Health and Chief Planning and Quality Officer. In this treat of an…
S4E17 S4 Ep17: Care in the Cells – Improving medical care for those in short term police custody featuring Dr. Michelle Brousson
When those in short term police custody need acute medical care, getting them that care presents logistic problems often resulting in time consuming and labor-intensive visits to the local hospital…
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Qualitycast North has published 68 episodes since November 2021, covering topics in Business, Careers.
Qualitycast North is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 28m.
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