Clinicians: Blazing HIT Trail for Better Health Outcomes

Dr. Peter Rossos, MD, MBA, FRCP(C), FACP
Chief Medical Information Officer, University Health Network
Chair, CCF: COACH Clinician Forum

 

 

 


If you are a physician, nurse, pharmacist or one of the other tens of thousands of healthcare professionals in Canada, you probably don’t think of yourself as a pioneer. But you definitely ARE! You are blazing the trail in health IT (HIT) to enhance patient care and better health outcomes in amazing ways.

The e-Health 2014 CCF: COACH Clinician Forum Symposium on June 1 is designed specifically to support YOU with the latest on health informatics – essential to developing evidence-based practices and effective data analytics that improve patient care and support health system sustainability. So, please join me for this full day of best-practice sharing, lessons learned, case studies, research and unique opportunities to collaborate. (Note: Earn education credits at this accredited program.)

The Symposium is also an excellent opportunity for you, as a clinician, to make the CCF aware of your ideas around HIT. What’s happening in your world with HIT? I encourage you to post about this at the end of this blog or speak with myself or Grant Gillis, Executive Director, Forums & Practices, COACH, at the Symposium.

I am particularly excited to be presenting at the Clinical Synoptic Reporting and National Engagement Opportunities sessions at the Symposium. I look forward to seeing you then!

Symposium Highlights   

  • Measuring the Impacts of HIT on Clinical Care Delivery
    Steven Shaha    , PhD, Professor, Centre for Policy & Public Administration, & Principal Outcomes Consultant, Allscripts

    HIT implementations are most successful when preceded by delineation of the clinical, cost-related and efficiency rationale for which the investments are being made and followed with quantification of outcomes in each of those areas of measurement. Dr. Shaha will focus on key drivers for productivity and return-on-investment for current and next generation HIT solutions, such as clinical information systems, EMRs and other solutions.
  • Medical/Clinical Legal Implications of HIT
    Patrick Ceresia,     MD, Managing Director & Privacy Officer, Canadian Medical Protective Association

This presentation will highlight the challenges and complexities involved in the pursuit of the delivery of enhanced patient care using new and developing e-Health technologies and health information databases.

  • Never Waste a Nurse's Time: How We Worked with First Nations Clinicians to Implement Panorama in BC
    Cathryn Aune,     RN, eHealth Clinical Lead & Steven Raphael, eHealth Development Coordinator, First Nations Health Authority
    Shelley Clements, RN, Community Nurse,Tla'amin Health, & First FN Panorama User in Canada

    The implementation of Panorama (Public Health Surveillance System) in British Columbia and the Yukon presented an opportunity for First Nation Health Service Organizations to be included in a provincial network and program for the first time. Walk through clinical implementation from pre-Panorama days, through engagement, designing workflows, training considerations, and go-live, to post go-live support at this session.

  • International Trends in Health Information Technology
    Tobias Samo    , MD, Chief Medical Officer & Patient Safety Office, Allscripts International

    Our growing global population has triggered some of the biggest healthcare challenges we'll ever face. Dr. Samo will discuss the global megatrends impacting healthcare and how HIT is being used to address these challenges with a special focus on the Canadian market.
  • National Engagement Opportunities – Dragon’s Den Style

This session will showcase new as well as ongoing projects and programs looking for wider, national HI clinician participation with three projects being “pitched.”

For more information, please contact Grant Gillis, ggillis@coachorg.com, or visit the Symposium page.

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