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Guest Editorial - Health Care Innovation – It’s Our Generation’s Turn
Richard C. Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, ON
Our once-admired health care system is in crisis. Innovation is desperately needed - in the nuts and bolts of how we deliver the health care Canadians deserve. Mr. Alvarez expands on his views as to how we take up this challenging opportunity.

Why Are Doctors so Concerned About Protecting the Confidentiality of Patient Records?
Dr. Brian Day, President of the Canadian Medical Association, Vancouver, BC
In the world of the physician trust is at the heart of their relationship with patients. Dr. Day shares some important messages for government and health stakeholders to keep in mind when making decisions on privacy legislation and local or pan-Canadian electronic health record initiatives.

E-Tendering - Paperless Tendering = Efficiency Gains and Lower Costs
Dale Gregg, Senior Vice President of Development and CTO, Ormed Information Systems, Edmonton, AB
Much of healthcare’s tendering process remains manual, disjointed, paper-heavy, and repetitive. Mr. Gregg advocates E - Tendering as a “best practice” as part of a vision for the widespread adoption of proven e-commerce technology and integrated MIS software.

COACH Column -eHealth 2008: Rules of Engagement
Shelagh Maloney, President, COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association, Executive Director, External Liaison for Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, ON
Ms. Maloney describes some strategies that you can employ to get the most out of your personal eHealth experience. Set your expectations at a high level, follow these simple “rules” and you will be dazzled.

Looking In from the Outside
David Wattling, Associate Editor, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group, Toronto ON
When you look at what Canada has achieved and the momentum we have gained it’s no wonder that we are envied by many; we need to build on that rather than being critical of ourselves.

CHITTA Column - A Great Time to be a Health Informatics Professional
Brendan Seaton, President, CHITTA, the Healthcare Division of ITAC, Mississauga, ON
Partial solutions to our resource capacity gap are floating around, usually focused on Professionalism.  Our problem won’t be solved by churning out HI grads. An aggressive, comprehensive and coordinated industrial strategy is needed to meet the “person power” needs of health ICT.

Ideas without Borders: The Art of Leadership – The Art of the Possible
Hy Eliasoph, CEO, Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), Markham, ON
Today, rapid massive change is not only possible, it is inevitable. Mastering the art of the possible is necessary but not sufficient; leadership provides the penultimate ingredient essential to shaping the future.

Going Back to Basics: the Applied Health Informatician
H. Dominic Covvey, Associate Editor, Professor and Director, Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research (WIHIR), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
What is a “health informatician”? How do they differ in terms of competencies from the classic worker in an Information Services (IS) department? As there are still many in the eHealth arena who can’t adequately answer this question, Prof. Covvey explores this space again.

Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Michael Whitt, Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais, Calgary, AB
Mr. Whitt describes the attributes of the growth and changing foci of what we now label as eHealth and offers his observations as to where this will lead us from a dispassionate perspective.

LAST WORDS – Actively Engaging Volunteers
Michael Martineau - Chief Operating Officer, MED2020 Health Care Software Inc., Orleans ON
Mr. Martineau challenges COACH to “lead the way” by developing an aggressive effective and efficient model to engage volunteers; he believes this to be a vital component in realizing COACH’s vision.

CHITTA “HealthCare Transformation Award”
CLINICARE Corporation, Calgary, AB

COACH “Emerging Leader in Health Informatics Award”
Dr. Chris O'Connor, Director of Medical Informatics, Trillium Health                                                 Centre, Mississauga, ON