What is HealthChat?
HealthChat is an online platform for groups of health care professionals to connect and collaborate. Whether you are a member of a network, community of practice, or administering a program, you can create a secure group space to share and develop your work. Clinicians, administrators, and health leaders can easily create a profile and request to join your group using the Group Directory. Access your work where you want, when you want.
Tools and Features:
You can create a secure group space for your team and customize many aspects of your space. Every group has standard tools for team communication and collaboration, as well as the option to create custom tools and applications.
- Forum:
- Post your comments or questions, and respond to others in your group
- Add documents or links to your conversations
- Create and delete content you’ve posted as a user
- Calendar:
- See what events are coming up, and post events to share with the healthchat.ca community
- Download an ICS calendar straight to your calendar (Outlook, Google, etc.) to store your events
- View your events in a ‘List View’ or ‘Calendar View’
- Members:
- View a list of all the members for your group
- View which users are administrators, or basic users
- Click on a user’s email to download their contact information
- Announcements:
- View announcements sent out by your group administrator
- Email notifications will be sent to you to notify you of a new announcement
- Users can login to healthchat.ca to view the announcement
- Resource Library:
- Post your own resources (PDF’s, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Images, and GIF’s) in your library
- Share unlimited resources in your library
- Drag & drop makes uploading easy
Get Started:
HealthChat is simple and intuitive, but it does take some planning on your part to ensure your team is engaged. Here are some things to think about when planning your group:
- What are our project/organizational/outcome goals?
- What topics do we need to discuss in the forum?
- What documents will we share/collaborate on, and how should those be organized?
- What events need to be coordinated/promoted?
- Who will be in this group and what is their role?
Contact Us to get started. We’ll teach you how to set up your group and leverage HealthChat to manage your team’s data, communications, and workflow. If your team needs more than the standard features provided, contact us for a consultation to discuss the development of custom tools and applications.