Course on Optimizing EHR Systems, March 2010, Toronto
Details on course information can be found here.
Summary of themes from the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop
The computing community consortium blog has a post about the results of the Oct 29, 2009 ‘Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop’ in San Francisco. From the post:
“Many of the breakout groups at the workshop honed in on approaches for patient-centered care, chronic disease management and prevention, and distributed, collaborative care. These approaches mirror the reality of healthcare now and for the foreseeable future. They also call for deep and challenging computing research including:
- Ubiquitous computing technologies for chronic disease management, including technologies that enable behavior change
- Workflow and decision support systems that actively incorporate health outcome data
- Security and privacy models for distributed, patient-centered care
- Machine learning techniques to predict future health trends and treatment complications
- Organizational modeling and simulation to anticipate economic repercussions in future healthcare approaches”
Public lecture on Health Technology – University of Victoria
The University of Victoria is hosting a talk on health care technology, at 2:30pm in the Maclaurin building on December 3rd, 2009.
Presentations are:
- Alvaro Neal – Mobile Health: Is There a Wireless Body Area Network Fit
- Minquan Yang – RFID Technology – Current State and Future Prospects
Public Lecture on Health Informatics – University of Victoria, Nov 26th.
Dr. Erdem Yazgonoglu, Dr. Yas Bolkan, and Dr. Karim Keshavjee are giving a free lecture in the Maclaurin building at the University of Victoria on November 26th at 2:30. Topics have not been announced.
NIHI ‘Advances in Health Informatics (AHI)’ conference, 2010
NIHI is holding an ‘Advances in Health Informatics (AHI)’ Conference, April 28 – 30, 2010 at the University of Waterloo’s new Health Sciences Campus at the School of Pharmacy in Kitchener, Ontario. AHI is a bi-annual, top-tier, peer-reviewed, academic Health Informatics conference.
This conference will have three primary themes:
- progress in health informatics research
- advances in health informatics education
- new developments in evidence-based e-health policy development and implementation
The organizers are planning for virtual / e-participants, as well on-site participants. Sessions will be webcast to the e-participants.
Presentation on EHealth, Ottawa, Dec 9.
J. Wayne Gudbranson, President & CEO, Branham Group Inc, will be giving a presentation entitled “Canada - The Global eHealth Leader – Recipe for Success” on December 9, 2009 at the Sheraton Ottawa Hotel. The keynote summary is provided below:
“Some consider the Healthcare sector to be the last industrial sector to dramatically leverage and transform itself using ICT. If this is indeed true then Canada is well positioned to seize the opportunity to be the global leader. Although there are definite areas that can be improved, it can be argued that Canada has one of the best healthcare delivery systems around the world. On the ICT front, Canada has well over 450 domestic and foreign eHealth vendors developing and/or supplying products and services to effectively automate healthcare delivery processes. The combination of a world leading healthcare system and a robust eHealth industry is a recipe for domestic and global success. Is Canada ready to cook?”
Workshop on technical approaches to data protection, May 2010
Khaled El Emam of the University of Ottawa is organizing a workshop entitled “Intelligent Methods for Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in Data” at the Canadian AI (Artificial Intelligence) conference, Ottawa, 30th May 2010. The call for papers will be coming out soon.
Prairie Health Information Privacy Day
Verney Conference Management is presenting a conference on health information privacy on November 30th in Calgary, Alberta.
The following three themes will guide the conference materials:
- Coming to terms with the law
- Maintaining successful operations
- Unraveling other mysteries
Global Health Innovation Conference
On November 24th, the Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership is holding a conference at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto.
Speakers and panelists will interact with conference participants in four broad subject areas:
1) The challenges to innovation and commercialization in biotechnology, pharmaceutical development and medical device development;
2) The barriers to electronic information system adoption in health care and what the next generation of “eHealth” promises;
3) Innovations in health finance; and,
4) Innovations in health system management.
Panel discussion will include a) Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Medical Devices, b) Health Service Management, c) Health Financing, and d) Information Technology. Breakout sessions include a) Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Devices, b) Health Service Management, c) Health Financing, and d) Information Technology
NDP Health Critic asks for Commissioner to investigate
The Health Critic for British Columbia’s New Democratic Party has asked the BC Privacy Commissioner to investigate a privacy breach at the Interior Health Authority. Information can be found in this article at the Kamloops Daily News. The article states that:
“The health authority informed patients in October of a breach of confidential information. A health authority pathologist posted records, including age and care card numbers, of the patients as part of a teaching assignment with the Canadian Association of Pathologists.”