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Friday, September 10, 2010
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Volume 21, Number 1 - February, 2007
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Bernard Courtois, President, Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)
Shelagh Maloney – President, COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association, Alliance Executive, Ontario, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, ON
The healthcare industry is clearly responding to the change in public attitude and behaviour. The public has become a powerful advocate for change. The challenge for us is to create awareness about the benefits of e-health and to harness their power to advocate for the changes that we know will reduce errors, increase efficiency and improve outcomes.
Michael Whitt, Partner with Borden Ladner Gervais in Calgary
LeRoy Brower, Director, Health Information Act, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Edmonton
As Laptops and other portable computing devices become pervasive in the workplace, and as work-forces become more mobile and connected, it becomes important for healthcare informaticians and those concerned with protection of personal data privacy to understand their security risks.
Warren Brown – Chair of the CHITTA Development Committee, President, Procura, Victoria, BC
Mr. Brown reports on collaboration with the Canadian Consulate General in Sydney, Australia, with respect to an Australian market analysis and report and trade missions with Australia and New Zealand.
Neil Stuart, Practice Leader
Aditya Pai, Consultant, IBM Global Business Services Health Care Practice, Toronto
IBM’s report, Healthcare 2015: Win-win or Lose-lose? A portrait and a path to successful transformation, takes a global perspective and documents how, around the world, health care systems are becoming increasingly unsustainable. The article is an “executive summary” of this report.
Dr. Gordon Atherley, Principal of Greyhead Associates
Dr. Atherley identifies some recent highly publicized misuses and abuses of personal information and illustrates how these security breaches may impact the EHR.
Brendan Seaton, Educator, Brendan Seaton Productions Ltd. North York, ON
Mr. Seaton describes the eHealthRisk Report Card. As a management system, it integrates the risk assessment processes already in place in a health care organization, fills in the gaps and presents an integrated risk profile to senior management.
David Wattling, eHealth Editor, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group, Toronto ON
Our government’s strategic, long-term economic plan, Advantage Canada holds that our economy must remain strong in order to preserve and protect our social programmes. Mr. Wattling’s editorial will support this position and contest that herein lies the hereto hidden link between Canada’s world-renown healthcare system and an untapped economic asset for export and growth.
Gary Folker, Managing Director of Clinical Management System, xwave
Mr. Folker presents a case study at Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation where the use of Transformation Architecture successfully engaged practitioners early in the implementation process—and offered them solutions that acknowledge their needs.
Michael Martineau - Director, Branham Group Inc, Ottawa, ON
The consumer eHealth race is on in Canada. How do you know? – Michael’s column will explain that for you...
Sherman Quan, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences, Toronto, ON
Orion Health, Edmonton, AB
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