CHIEF Executive Forum Fall Symposium
Details
- Date:
- October 18, 2023
- Time:
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8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Organizer
Venue
- Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
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123 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario Canada + Google Map
Join us for two days of knowledge-sharing, learning, and networking with public and private sector digital health leaders from across Canada. Reserve your seat at the table where important digital health conversations happen. All CHIEF Executive Forum members are invited to attend—confirm your attendance at the links below, or email chief@digitalhealthcanada.com.
To register
Your CHIEF Membership includes registration at both the Spring and Fall Symposia, however, to reserve your place and ensure everyone will be comfortably accommodated, separate registration is required for each of the following components of the event:
- Register for the October 18 Fall Symposium at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto
OCT 18 REGISTRATION - Reserve your place at the Round Table discussion of your choice – Space is limited. Please email chief@digitalhealthcanada.com
- Register for October 19 walking tours and site visits to leading healthcare organizations – At capacity. Waitlist enabled.
OCT 19 REGISTRATION
Speakers
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Elizabeth Keller
Business Development Executive, Public Sector, Canada (Healthcare), AWS
Read MoreElizabeth Keller is a leading executive, strategist and integrator in Canadian digital health and a recognized health expert internationally. She was named as one of the Top 10 Women in Digital Health in Canada. As the National Canadian Business Development Leader for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Public Sector (Healthcare), Elizabeth works with government and public sector clients to transform their businesses and improve citizen experiences. She has also worked with some of the largest private sector consulting firms in the world (IBM and PwC), and in the public sector for 10 years as VP @OntarioMD. Elizabeth volunteers her time and expertise extensively in the industry as an elected advisor to CHIEF (Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum) and the Head of Delegation for Canada (Digital Health Standards) for the Standards Council of Canada.
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Kevin Jones
Senior Vice President, Canada, Strata Health
Read MoreKevin began his healthcare journey with Strata Health in 2003, answering support calls. During that time, he developed great respect and compassion for healthcare workers, which nurtured his commitment to providing value through technology. Strata Health’s vision of improving patient care, reducing healthcare costs, and supporting healthcare workers through technology aligned with his personal values. As his career progressed at the company, so did his passion for digital health solutions. Today, as the Senior Vice President for Canada at Strata Health, his priority is to better understand the high-level challenges our healthcare system faces so that he can work with other technology innovators in the industry to solve them. His passion for digital health has grown through my work, leading to international travel to work with health systems beyond our country’s borders and connections with organizations like Digital Health Canada, CHIEF, and ANHIX.
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Juan Encinas
Manager, Applied Analytics for Nova Scotia Health
Read MoreSteven is the Director, Analytics with Nova Scotia Health. He holds a Master of Public Administration and Master of Epidemiology from Dalhousie University, and is an EXTRA Fellow with Healthcare Excellence Canada. Steven is a also a lecturer with the School of Health Administration at Dalhousie University. Steven is an experienced leader in the realm of healthcare analytics, with a focus in biostatistics, advanced analytics and public administration. Steven is committed to promoting a culture of evidence and data-based decision-making, across the organization.
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Dr. Tammy Mah-Fraser, DrPH, MSc
Executive Director, Health Platforms, Alberta Innovates
Read MoreTammy Mah-Fraser, DrPH, MSc is the Executive Director, Health Platforms at Alberta Innovates. She well versed in research (basic, animal and clinical trials) as well as clinical care in Canada and the United States, with a focus on regulatory affairs. As Executive Director, she tackles system barriers involving multiple organizations for better health outcomes, to enable a learning health system and to accelerate commercialization. She is project sponsor for the Alberta Clinical Research Consortium, ARECCI, Ethics of Innovation Consortium, and Canadian Cannabis Critical Path Ecosystem, and has active involvement in the Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit.
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Dr. Birinder Narang
Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, a Medical Contributor for Global BC and CKNW 980, and a Family Physician at the REACH Community Health Centre
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Michael Cleghorn
Chief of Provincial Digital Solutions at Provincial Health Services Authority
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Alexander Macmillan
Director, Performance Measurement, Evaluation & Learning, Health, Canadian Red Cross
Read MoreAlexander Macmillan serves as the Director of Performance Measurement, Evaluation & Learning at the Canadian Red Cross (CRC), where he is dedicated to enhancing quality, knowledge mobilization, and evidence-informed decision-making within the CRC’s National Community Health Programs and Services. A leader in performance measurement, data and analytics, and evaluation, he has over a decade of progressive experience spanning numerous sectors, including community healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, food, and sales and marketing. In his role, Alexander enjoys working with his team and colleagues in realizing the value and advancing the use of frontline community health data and evidence to drive meaningful change, and to elevate the impact that community-based programs and services can have on people, communities and systems across Canada.
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Anne Forsyth
Manager of Data Standards at the Canadian Institute for Health Information
Read MoreAnne Forsyth has 15 years of experience in the Digital Health field across government, hospital and community organizations. Her expertise is in the areas of data standards, information privacy, governance, and program development. Anne is currently the Manager of Data Standards at the Canadian Institute for Health Information, where she is responsible for establishing and operationalizing a corporate centre of excellence for data standards development within the organization. Anne is on the Board of Directors for Digital Health Canada. She also volunteers as a faculty member and a mentor for various academic and professional development institutions. Anne holds CPHIMS-CA, HL7 and CIPP/C certifications, in addition to her Bachelor of Health Science degree in Health Studies and Management Studies from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Health Science degree in Health Administration from the University of Toronto.
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Jason Garay
Partner Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Leader - Omnia AI, Deloitte
Read MoreJason is a Partner and the Life Sciences and Healthcare and GPS Leader in Deloitte Canada’s Omnia AI practice, and brings over 20 years of experience in the epidemiology, public health, digital health and health analytics landscape in Canada. He is also Deloitte Canada’s public health leader, and in that role has led Deloitte’s efforts to drive innovation and best practices in public health across the country. Prior to Deloitte, Jason held executive level positions at Ontario’s provincial cancer agency and the provincial public health organization where he led Ontario’s outbreak response team and epidemiology portfolio. Jason excels in organizational and provincial/regional strategy development and implementation, partnership development, and data and analytics transformation. An established health care executive and epidemiologist by background, Jason also holds faculty appointments at the Dalla Lana school of Public Health and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Jason works at national, provincial, regional, and local system levels and has held Lead Partner roles across several complex system-wide engagements in highly distributed stakeholder environments, requiring executive-level mediation and negotiation, both within organizations and with key external partners.
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Keltie Jamieson
CIO, Bermuda Hospitals Board
Read MoreKeltie Jamieson joined Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) in 2022 as chief hospital information officer. She oversees all information technology and telecommunications functions and operations. In addition to leading the Information Technology Services team, Keltie is responsible for developing and maintaining a comprehensive digital strategy that guides BHB’s adoption and management of digital health systems, such as the electronic medical record and health informatics. She reports to CEO Michael Richmond. Keltie has more than 25 years of experience implementing digital strategies and enabling change through supporting technology. Prior to joining BHB, she served as the senior advisor at Horizon Health Network in New Brunswick, Canada, where she provided advisory and consultant services to the province of New Brunswick as they prepared for their clinical information system implementation. Keltie has also served as the senior director and chief information officer at Nova Scotia Health & IWK Health in Canada. She holds a Master of Arts with health leadership specialization from Royal Roads University and is a certified health executive and a chief digital health executive.
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Jeff Kavanagh
CEO, Well Health
Read MoreJeff has over 22 years of experience in the software industry, working in various roles from software development to product leadership. Prior to founding OceanMD, Jeff was the Director of Research and Development at Nelnet overseeing both the development and operations of the leading direct marketing platform in the education industry. He graduated from the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto in 1999 and completed his MBA from the Rotman School of Management in 2004. Jeff is never happier than when he’s on the ice rink with his (8!) sons, and he’s appropriately the master of all dad jokes.
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Sonia Pagliaroli
CNO, Oracle
Read MoreSonia Pagliaroli is a Registered Nurse and Clinical Informatics professional who combines years of frontline clinical experience with extensive management and leadership experience in an acute-care hospital setting. She is the Chief Nursing Officer for Oracle Cerner Canada supporting the Canadian client base. Prior to this role, she has served as Director, Clinical Informatics at North York General Hospital, a 413 bed Community Teaching Hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, serving a catchment area of over 400,000 people. In her 18 + years at NYGH, Sonia was called upon to take the lead on a leadership role on a variety of key internal and external projects. Sonia completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Health Informatics. She was a member of the first class to receive the designation of Certified Professional in Healthcare Management Systems (CPHIMS-CA), accredited by HIMSS Analytics and COACH. Sonia has also co-authored the CPOE toolkit available at www. CPOE-toolkit.ca.
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Megan Stowe
Chief Regional Digital Solutions, PHSA
Read MoreMegan Stowe is the Chief Regional Digital Solutions for Provincial Health Services Authority. Holding previous roles such as Executive Director, Clinical Informatics and Virtual Health as well as Chief Clinical Information Officer, Megan is passionate about transformation in healthcare. In 2021, Megan was awarded as a Woman Leader by Digital Health Canada. Her interests lie at the intersection of leadership, quality improvement and digital health. Megan is a registered nurse and has her bachelor’s degree from the University of Calgary. Her Masters of Science in Nursing Leadership in Healthcare is from King’s College, University of London (UK). Megan is also an adjunct professor at University of British Columbia and is an instructor in UBC’s Master’s of Health Administration Program.
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Kostas Trakas
CEO Exactis Health
Read MoreDr. Kostas Trakas joins Exactis from Noviscend Inc. where he was CEO and co-founder. Noviscend is a healthcare company distributing innovative medical technologies in Canada. Kostas was also the Principal Consultant at Prometheus Healthcare Strategies. Prior to that, he was co-founder of Nutu, a digital health company. Kostas brings 14 years of global commercial experience in the pharmaceutical industry where most recently he was a Global Marketing Leader for Janssen’s (J&J) Infectious Disease &am Vaccines.
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Dr. Ted Scott
Vice President Innovation, Hamilton Health Sciences
Read MoreI am an innovative leader, excited by opportunities to create high-performing teams to work on some of the most challenging problems in health and education. As Vice President of Innovation at Hamilton Health Sciences, I lead a diverse group of experts working to use technology, care model innovation, and the patient voice to improve health care outcomes. I founded the Innovation function leveraging collaborations with research, quality, and industry to create sustaining models of care, tools, and products that will shape the future of health care. I am passionate about collaborations and partnerships that can generate patient-centric, more inclusive, and equitable outcomes.
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Liz Nemeth
Senior Vice President Implementation Services, Healthtech Consultants
Read MoreElizabeth is a Registered Nurse and over her 35-year career, has held various positions from front-line nursing to senior/executive. Her level of expertise spans rural/urban, teaching hospitals, and integrated regional healthcare systems. Her results-oriented leadership style and proven talent for leading through change are supported by her innovative problem-solving and consensus-building skills. Elizabeth has in-depth knowledge of clinical standards, practice, change management, benefits realization, and the transformation journey to a fully integrated electronic system that supports clinicians. Since joining Healthtech in 2006, she has held several key leadership roles in a wide variety of large and small-scale as well as jurisdictional projects across the healthcare sector in Canada. She has significant consulting experience in advisory services, implementation, business development, project and vendor management, governance, consensus building, aur current state assessments, process redesign, and clinical adoption. She has a proven track record for developing effective and long lasting relationships with clients, partners, and team hie members.
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Dr. Tania Tajirian
CMIO and CHIEF of Hospital Medicine, CAMH
Read MoreCHIEF MEDICAL INFORMATION OFFICER & CHIEF OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH Dr. Tania Tajirian is a Hospitalist, Chief Medical Information Officer and Chief of Medicine in Psychiatry at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. Tajirian is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. As the inaugural CMIO, Dr. Tajirian has led the development and implementation of an organization-wide Physician Engagement Strategy which aims to address frustrations and burden related to use of the electronic health record system. Through this initiative, Dr. Tajirian has implemented positive hospital-wide changes via engagement of multiple stakeholders in order to achieve inter-disciplinary goals of improving patient care. Since the launch of CAMH’s EHR (I-CARE) five years ago, she has led the streamlining of I-CARE protocols and the design and implementation of new electronic clinical tools and processes, such as clozapine induced myocarditis monitoring. Dr. Tajirian was instrumental in helping CAMH achieve both HIMSS stage 6 and 7, and most recently the prestigious HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award. In addition to the Physician Engagement Strategy, Dr. Tajirian also leads the Hospital Medicine Division (~45 physicians) and is part of numerous organizational steering committees including chairing the monthly physician think tanks. She is also a physician wellness liaison and strives to celebrate excellence and foster a culture of wellbeing within CAMH. Most recently, in 2021, she was awarded the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award.
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Marc Koehn
Managing Director, Health Practice Portfolio Lead (Canada), Accenture
Read MoreMarc is a senior consultant with more than 25 years of progressive and varied experience in providing healthcare IT/IM-focused management consulting services both within BC and across Canada. His wide market knowledge, strong analytical skills and technical expertise combined with his advanced and well-honed general management, facilitation and communication abilities allow him to deal effectively with a wide range of business and technical challenges – both at strategic and operational levels. Engagements have ranged from strategic facilitation through project management of complex, mutli-agency initiatives, to hands-on delivery of specific program, solution or analysis initiatives. Marc has extensive and broad experience in taking a leadership role, developing productive relationships among diverse and boundary spanning stakeholder groups to maintain momentum on large, time critical, and complex business projects. As chief operating officer and member of the executive team for Gevity Consulting Inc., Marc oversees a broad array of projects from proposal / bid stage through to successful client delivery.
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Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia
CEO, eHealth Centre of Excellence
Read MoreDr. Mohamed Alarakhia is: • a Family Physician at the Centre for Family Medicine Family Health Team • the CEO of the eHealth Centre of Excellence • Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University • Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo • Faculty Digital Health and Innovation Lead at McMaster University, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine (Waterloo Campus) Dr. Alarakhia was awarded the Digital Health Executive of the Year Award in 2019 and the College of Family Physicians of Canada Award of Excellence in 2018 and 2022. Dr Alarakhia and the eHealth Centre of Excellence won the Innovation Award in 2022 from the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. The eHealth Centre of Excellence received a Canadian Medical Association Joule Innovation Grant and an AFHTO Team Award in 2020, as well as a Patient Care Innovation Team Award at the 2019 Canadian Health Informatics Awards and a 2019 Ingenious Award from Information Technology Association of Canada.
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Dr. Jeremy Petch
Director of Digital Health Innovation, Hamilton Health Sciences
Read MoreDr. Jeremy Petch is Director of Digital Health Innovation at Hamilton Health Sciences and an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and the Division of Cardiology at McMaster University. He is the founder of CREATE (CentRE for dAta science and digiTal hEalth), a multidisciplinary research and innovation team with expertise in health system operations, data engineering, data science, software engineering and interoperability. Prior to joining HHS, he led St. Michael’s Hospital’s transformation into a data-driven organization, through the deployment of an advanced data and analytics infrastructure and co-founding the Li Ka Shing Centre for Healthcare Analytics Research and Training (LKS-CHART), which is home to a team of data scientists with specialization in machine learning, simulation modeling and natural language processing. Dr. Petch was a core member of CADTH’s Health Technology Expert Review Panel from 2015 to 2021 and co-lead of the Digital Health Secretariat of the Hamilton Ontario Health Team from 2019 to 2022.
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Julia Zarb, PhD
CEO + Founder, Blue x Blue Inc.
Read MoreJulia Zarb is a digital health and AI communicator, strategist, innovator, and advisor with 25 years in the private, public, and commercial sectors. Working via 32 organizations and 200+ partnerships, Julia has brought myriad data-driven technologies into US and Canadian health/life science ecosystems. Specializing in health informatics strategy, marketing, and business development, Julia’s 11 years on corporate executive teams resulted in a #3 US EHR Brand position. Her Zarb Consulting firm lifted market share for retained clients including, Allscripts, American College of Cardiology, Partners/Harvard, Siemens Healthcare, Nuance, and Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Active in Washington, DC, in the early days of health informatics, Julia co-founded the Electronic Health Record Vendor Association (HIMSS EHRA); HIMSS, HL7 & IHE Interoperability Collaborative; and National Health IT Week. Julia has served twice in federal crisis response efforts requiring rapid virtualization: HIMSS Katrina Phoenix Advisory Board; CanCOVID (Academic and Managing Director; Health Canada, ISED). She led the Rapid Evidence Access Link (REAL) Knowledge as a Service platform. At the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, she has delivered hundreds of lectures in class and conferences on digital health strategy, informatics, and AI. Serving 8 years as a professor and 5 years as Director of the Master of Health Informatics, she has proudly launched careers of 350 graduates. She received awards for local and international expansion. Julia is on the Victoria College Board of Regents, UofT. She holds a PhD in communications, UofT, 2001.
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Deepak Kaura
Co-Chair, National AI Council for Healthcare
Read MoreDeeply invested and embedded within healthcare as an experienced administrator, innovator, pediatric radiologist, and founding member of Pureform Radiology, Dr. Deepak Kaura is the co-founder and Chief Medical and Product Officer for Synthesis Health and the vice-chair of the CAN Health Network, a national partnership dedicated to the economic advancement of the Canadian healthcare system. Prior to joining the team, Deepak was the CMO of 1QBit, the chair of Joule, a Canadian Medical Association subsidiary, and spent five years in Qatar as the Executive Chair of Foundation of Clinical Services at Sidra Medicine, where he led the development of a new hospital.
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Schedule
October 18, 2023
| 8:00am |
Networking Breakfast |
| 9:00am |
Welcome and opening remarks |
| 9:10am |
Canadian digital health strategies: common themes and priorities This session will take a deeper dive into the common themes found across provincial and territory strategies and how the areas relate and interact with one another before moving on to examples of projects from various jurisdictions in each of the theme areas. Join us as CHIEF Executive Forum members share knowledge, best practices, and successes across jurisdictions and discuss how CHIEF Executive Forum members can advise and promote common elements and work together to address the barriers and challenges.
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| 10:45am |
Networking break |
| 11:15am |
Roundtables Attendees will be asked to pre-select which roundtable discussion they would like to join. Roundtables are facilitated discussions around a specific topic with participants engaging in conversation working towards the goal of a shared objective, recommendation, or 2-3 actionable takeaways. This session will include 55 minutes of discussion followed by 20 minutes during which each table will report their top takeaways to the plenary group. Roundtables generate opportunities for content-focused networking and developing trusted relationships. Roundtable Topics: Enhanced AnalyticsEnhanced Analytics: Join a deep-dive discussion into the critical role of enhanced analytics in healthcare emphasizing the most impactful data sources to revolutionize patient care, operational efficiency, and outcomes. Where should organizations invest their IT resources to maximize value in data? What are the most impactful data sources to access and how should the data be leveraged for impact? Facilitated by Anne Forsyth, CIHI, and Jason Garay, Deloitte. Patient Empowerment: Join a discussion to highlight the pivotal role of patients and best practices in promoting active patient participation and communication in their healthcare journey for improved outcomes and shared decision-making. How are Canadian organizations socializing the role of the patient in self-management in the community? What is the role of family members and where do they fit in the care model? How might providers be enablers of patient empowerment (i.e. advocates for patient access to health information and agency in medical decision making)? Facilitated by Keltie Jamieson, Bermuda Hospitals Board and Jeff Kavanagh, Well Health. Coordinated Care: Discuss the domain of coordinated care and unveil practical strategies to incentivize collaboration among healthcare providers to enhance patient outcomes and efficiency in our healthcare ecosystem. What are some practical ways that institutions and physicians can be incentivized to coordinate care? How can the business model of healthcare be redesigned to enable seamless care models? How can the voice of the patient drive care coordination (ie. enable sharing of health information)? Facilitated by Sonia Pagliaroli, Oracle and Lydia Sequiera, Kids Help Phone Population Care: Consider the path to transformative healthcare by focusing on population care and strategically directing resources upstream to address root causes that drive impactful and sustainable results. How might funding be redirected to address prevention strategies and the social determinants of health (i.e., access to housing, quality sources of food, and mental health services as a priority, compared with legacy programs)? For example, basic income as an enabler of social well-being in conjunction with proactive social well-being programs. Facilitated by Megan Stowe, PHSA and Kostas Trakas, Exactis Health System-level Thinking: Given the current healthcare crisis, we need to rethink our entire approach to healthcare—the system’s funding models, health delivery approaches, and governance structures. Putting legislative and policy barriers aside, what are five out-of-the-box suggestions for reinventing our healthcare system to better suit today’s needs? What are the digital and/or technology-related implications of each of the suggestions noted above? Facilitated by Ted Scott, Hamilton Health Sciences and Liz Nemeth, Healthtech Consultants Healthcare Human Resources: The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have intensified the spotlight placed on critical human resources issues in healthcare. Join a discussion to re-evaluate and innovate our workforce strategies for a resilient healthcare system. Assuming we cannot recruit ourselves out of the HHR crises, what are the next three things we must do? Facilitated by Dr. Tania Tajirian, CAMH and Marc Koehn, Accenture Space is limited. Contact chief@digitalhealthcanada to reserve a spot at your preferred Round Table discussion.
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| 12:30pm |
Networking Lunch |
| 1:30pm |
Updates Let’s continue the conversation on a few topics and themes discussed at previous Symposia to hear project updates and progress reports, and learn about any advancement or continued challenges. Topics: Health equity; Interoperability; Cybersecurity.
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| 2:30pm |
AI in healthcare There is a huge demand for the transformational impact of AI in healthcare in Canada. This session will contribute to members’ understanding of the applications, opportunities, and transformative potential of AI in your healthcare context. Leading industry experts will discuss the different opportunities and their respective barriers and facilitators as well as share their knowledge and experience to support CHIEF Executive Forum members in preparing their organizations and workforces for the safe and effective use of AI in healthcare delivery.
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| 3:30pm |
Networking Break |
| 4:00pm |
AI Showcase From improved diagnostics to clinician support, AI is reshaping the way care is being delivered. This session is an opportunity to explore the immense potential of AI in revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Learn about CHIEF Executive Forum member-led projects that are shaping the future of AI-powered healthcare.
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| 5:00pm |
Closing Comments |
| 5:30pm |
Cocktail Reception and Dinner RSVP Required |
October 19, 2023
| 8:45am |
Walking Tour + Site Visit: Unity Health, 209 Victoria Street
Separate registration required (space is limited). |
| 11:30am |
Walking Tour + Site Visit: MARs Auditorium, 101 College Ave
Separate registration required (space is limited). |