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Webinar Wednesday Healthcare Innovation Rounds – Achieving health data liberation: Inter-operability and community governance of health data in Canada
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
Describe the major entities involved in creating, governing and working with health information in Canada
Identify key pieces of existing legislation that govern health information
Describe the barriers and the solutions to achieving appropriate use of health data
What the clinician’s role is in liberating health data
Speakers
Dr. Andrew Pinto
Upstream Lab / St. Michael's Hospital Unity Health / University of Toronto
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Dr. Andrew Pinto is the founder and director of the Upstream Lab, a research team focused on tackling social determinants of health, population health management, and using data science to enable Learning Health Systems. He holds the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Upstream Prevention. He is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist and family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UPLEARN), the lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and the founder of the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network. Among other roles, he serves on the Institute Advisory Board of CIHR’s Institute for Population and Public Health, is an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Work and Health, and is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
