Winter 2025 Core Health Informatics Learning Series: Session 5 – Healthcare Transformation

The Healthcare Transformation module equips learners with the knowledge and skills to drive change and innovation within healthcare organizations. This module covers the fundamental theories, concepts, and practices of management, including organizational behaviour and culture, human resources, financial and budget management, governance, accountability, risk analysis, procurement, vendor relationships, and customer relationships.

Learners will contribute to organizational plans and strategies to ensure that information and systems align with business goals and strategies. The module promotes an information culture by facilitating the appropriate use of information and knowledge and supports individual, team, and organizational learning and development through the use of appropriate technologies and communication channels. Learners will use audience-appropriate communication to present information and convey concepts to stakeholders effectively.

The module also emphasizes the application of best practices in quality improvement and process engineering to facilitate business and clinical transformation and contributes to the ongoing evaluation of system functionality to support best practices in clinical care. Additionally, learners will apply change management best practices in the implementation of new processes or systems, ensuring they are well-prepared to lead healthcare transformation initiatives.

Date	Time	Topic	Facilitator	Learn More
February 10, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Analysis and Evaluation	Lirije Hyseni and Lisa Harman	Link to this session
February 12, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	The Canadian Healthcare System	Radica Bissondial	Link to this session
February 17, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Clinical and Health Services	Lorraine Toderash	Link to this session
February 24, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Information Management	Kaitlyn Hebert and Rachel Barker	Link to this session
February 26, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Healthcare Transformation	Justin Saindon and Sonia Pagliaroli	Link to this session
March 3, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Technology Ecosystem	Andriana Lukich	Link to this session
March 5, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	CPHIMS-CA Q&A	Nickiesha Linton	Link to this session
March 10, 2026	1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Project Management	Makan Camara	Link to this session

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  Rodney Joseph Burns

  BSc (Hons.), MHA, CHE, CPHIMS-CA, CDPSE, CHCIO, CDH-E, FHIMSS, FCCHL

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  Rod Burns received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Medical Physiology from the University of Western Ontario in 1988 and a Masters of Health Administration from the University of Ottawa in 1992. He spent 15 years working in the hospital sector in Ontario and three years in the NSM LHIN environment. He has held positions in Finance, Administration, Community Relations, Information Technology & Services, Clinical Utilization Management, Decision Support and Digital Health. Through a 30-year career, Rod has held senior leadership positions in Information Management portfolios developing and implementing multiple IS and corporate strategic plans.

  He is currently providing digital health consulting at a provincial level in Ontario.

  Rod is active in the professional community and a strong believer in on-going leadership development. Along with memberships with various professional associations, he served as Board Secretary for ProResp Health in Sarnia, Board Chair of the Huronia Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic, Past President of the Ontario Chapter of the Health Information and Management Systems Society and Past President of the Southwestern Chapter of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives. He was one of the first Canadians to earn the CPHIMS-CA credential in 2005, his CDPSE and CHCIO and CDH-E credentials between 2015 and 2020 Rod earned his FCCHL in 2018 and the FHIMSS credential in 2022 as a culmination of a career commitment to ongoing professional development.

  Rod’s current professional interests lay in consumer health, health system leadership, digital health, and institutional knowledge management. He continues to support health service leadership development through his ongoing involvement as a CCHL CHE Program Evaluator and Fellowship Program Evaluator and Mentor. He is a member of the CCHL Fellows Council.

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