Early on each year, I like to take a look at the state of digital health in Canada and make some predictions for what lies ahead. Canadian healthcare is on the cusp of significant change. Several initiatives will have a profound effect on how healthcare is delivered in Canada in the coming years. The big … Continue reading Healthcare 2020: Community care, patient digital rights, AI and helping physicians avoid burnout →

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Theodore Hook It’s been said that it takes about 10 years for a healthcare technology standard to progress from initial work within a standards development organization to being available in commercial products. As this article represents my 10-year anniversary writing for the magazine I … Continue reading Forecasting FHIR →

When the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its Cyber Security Framework in 2014, it consolidated and summarized international best practices for managing security on the Internet. The Cybersecurity Framework focused on the management of risk associated with critical infrastructure. In January of 2020, NIST published a companion standard, the NIST Privacy Framework: … Continue reading Privacy in Cyberspace: the NIST Privacy Framework →

The Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology Standards is offered by the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria in partnership with Ontario Health, Gevity Consulting and RKL Health Informatics. It is a 1-year, part-time program with four graduate level courses done through weekly online evening classes and a 2.5-day in-person workshop. The … Continue reading CCHIM-Accredited Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology Standards – An Update →