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Richard Alvarez, President & CEO, Canada Health Infoway
Shelagh Maloney - President, COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association, Alliance Executive, Ontario, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, ON
Ms. Maloney hypothecates as to what the health system would/should/could look like in 2020 given the global changes that are affecting how we live.
David Wattling, Chair, CHITTA, the Healthcare Division of ITAC, managing partner, Courtyard Group, Toronto, Ontario
Mr. Wattling reports on CHITTA’s accomplishments of past and the Board’s priorities for the future as CHITTA enters the second full year of integration as the Healthcare Division of ITAC.
Dennis Giokas, Chief Technology Officer for Canada Health Infoway, Montreal, QC
Mr. Giokas reports on the progress made by the Infoway Standards Collaborative formed in April 2006 in the drive to establish the interoperability standards required by Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and facilitate their adoption in Canada.
Wayne Mills, CIO and Vice President, Information Services, Trillium Health Centre
Mr. Mills discusses how Trillium’s seven technology partners with the THINK Initiative are tackling the biggest challenge to Medicare since its inception: How best to use technology to improve the quality, efficiency and long-term sustainability of health service delivery.
Scott Murray, Chief Technology Officer for the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI)
Mr. Murray raises some complex questions about the concept of “use of data.” Exploring these questions may lead us to change—change that could vastly improve how our health system uses data.
Shirlee Sharkey, President and CEO of Saint Elizabeth Health Care in
Markham, Ontario
Ms. Sharkey discusses how her organization has created a viable roadmap to help their staff successfully navigate and manage the traffic and noise in home care, clearing the way for increased time and focus on client care.
LeRoy Brower, Director, Health Information Act, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Edmonton, AB
Michael Whitt, partner, Borden Ladner Gervais, Calgary AB
The authors describe a precedent setting case where a medical office clerk plead guilty to a charge of improperly accessing another person’s medical information, in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA). The individual was fined $10,000. This is the first time charges have been laid and successfully prosecuted under the HIA.
H. Dominic Covvey, Founding Director
Shirley Fenton, Managing Director
Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
The authors discuss the role of the Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp as a means of raising awareness of AHI, providing a basic level of knowledge for those in information services roles. This may be a first step to address the major human resources (HR) gap that is seriously impairing the ability to deliver, implement, promote and evaluate needed informatics capabilities that are needed to realize the EHR.
Michael Martineau - Director, Branham Group Inc, Ottawa, ON
Influencing public behaviour takes a concerted and sustained effort. Martineau proposes that those of us who are interested in shaping public opinion with regard to the benefits of eHealth join together and develop a plan to do so.
EMPcare@home Implementation Team, led by River Valley Health
Sierra Systems, Victoria, BC
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