Theme: Realizing the Potential of eHealth
The eHealth Summit is an annual, invitation-only conference presented by Canadian Healthcare Manager to provide healthcare leaders with a forum for debate about the latest thinking on electronic health technology, and to share their experiences, discuss common issues and explore solutions. The ninth annual eHealth Summit was held at the Fairmont Chateau Montebello in Montebello, Que., June 10-12, 2009.
Keynote Presentation:
The Leadership Challenges in the Evolution to People-Centred Healthcare
People-centred EHR technology is the fuel that will drive a paradigm shift in the healthcare system in the next three to five years.
PRESENTER
Dr. Vaughan Glover, Founder and Spokesperson, Canadian Association for People-Centred Health
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Cleaning Up Ontario’s Clinical Data: The eCHN Experience
After 10 years, eCHN — Canada’s first and largest electronic health record — can share lessons learned from the success of this unique initiative.
PRESENTER
Andrew Szende, CEO, electronic Child Health Network (eCHN)
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How Technology Will Transform Care Beyond EHRs
Successful healthcare interactions can be rendered down to three principal connections: people to people, people to information and people to equipment and resources. The transformative role that technology will play in healthcare is not limited to EHRs alone.
PRESENTER
Dr. Kaveh Safavi, Vice-President and Global Lead, Healthcare Practice Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems
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Moving Forward with eHealth in the Waterloo Wellington LHIN
An overview of the HEALTHeCONNECTIONS project, which is using various eHealth elements to create new and innovative care delivery models.
PRESENTER
Glenn Holder, eHealth Lead and CIO, Waterloo Wellington LHIN
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Panel Discussion: Document Management
Converting paper documents to electronic format is fundamental to the successful development and management of an electronic health record system. Like many eHealth issues, it sounds simpler in theory than it turns out to be in practice.
PANELISTS
Jacques Lirette, Health Industry Consultant, Lexmark Global Services
Yoel Robens-Paradise, Director, Health Records Services, Providence Health Care
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Presentation - Lirette
Presentation - Robens-Paradise
Fostering Patient Autonomy with Personal Health Records
A major shift will soon take place in the way healthcare organizations operate. Healthcare organizations must change the way they deliver care, report on quality and patient safety, and assist in improving healthcare outcomes.
PRESENTER
Dr. Wendy Graham, Physician, Blue Sky Family Health Team
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Empowering the Health System: A New Information Paradigm
Providing patients with timely access to their personal health information is a basic building block towards empowerment and self-management for those with chronic conditions.
PRESENTER
Dr. David Wiljer, Director, Knowledge Management and eHealth Innovation for Oncology Education and the Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network
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Panel Discussion: Patient-Managed Health Records
As the dynamic of health information moves toward patient-centred approaches, the emergence of the personal health record (PHR) raises questions about the level of trust that will be accorded by physicians and other caregivers to PHR data.
MODERATOR
David Cowperthwaite, eHealth Consultant, DC1 Consulting Ltd.
PANELISTS
Marc Bouchard, Director, Information and Communication Technology, Sault Area Hospital
Dr. Wendy Graham, Physician, Blue Sky Family Health Team
Dr. Karim Jessa, Director, Medical Informatics, York Central Hospital
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Data Mining and the Secondary Use of Health Information
Effective secondary use of the vast amounts of electronic health information that are now being collected needs to face the realities of data quality and appropriate governance.
PRESENTER
Khaled El Emam, Senior Investigator, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute
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