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eHealth Strategies Think Tank eHealth Strategies Think Tank
There seems to be consensus regarding the significant positive impact that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can have on the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Even so, eHealth projects in Canada and elsewhere face daunting challenges. Many jurisdictions are facing rocky starts to their national and regional ehealth efforts. What lessons can we take from our experience so far? In what ways do we, today, better understand (or not yet fully understand) the problems and the issues – and how can this inform our approach as we move forward?
Many factors contribute to this challenging situation, including the size and complexity of our health maintenance and healthcare enterprises, the limitations of our understanding of the problems we face, the nature of the served populations and their expectations, the many issues and constraints (e.g., policy, diffusion of innovations, fiscal constraints, availability of competent HR) that impact all aspects of the challenge and potential solutions, and the diversity of possible interventions, just to name a few.
This think tank session will address one aspect, the nature and limitations of eHealth strategies and what we already know that might make them more effective.
This highly-participative workshop will bring together both on-site and online participants into a thinking process that will continue beyond the conference. Its objective will be the production of a multi-authored position paper that will be widely promoted by NIHI. A core group of Key Participants, also called "Tier 1 Participants", will anchor the session. A select group of industry representatives who have graciously sponsored the Think Tank, have been asked to provide their input in the areas of eHealth systems technology, design and implementation. These representatives will be seated at the "industry table" and actively participate in idea generation as "Tier 1 Industry Representatives".
All conference registrants will have an opportunity to participate.
Key Participants
AHIC 2010 is pleased to announce the following key participants for this Think Tank Session:
- Dr. Sholom Glouberman, Associate Scientist / Adjunct Assistant Professor, Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care / University of Toronto
- Mr. Wayne Gudbranson, President and CEO, Branham Group
- Dr. Kevin Leonard, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Mr. Lou Milrad, Associate Counsel, Miller Thomson LLP
- Mr. William Pascal, CTO, Chief Technology Officer, Canadian Medical Association
- Mr. Greg Reed, CEO, eHealth Ontario
- Mr. Brendan Seaton, President, ITAC Health, Information Technology Association of Canada
- Dr. Michael Shepherd, Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
- Mr. Doug Tessier, Senior VP (A), Development and Implementation, eHealth Ontario
- Dr. Frances Westley, JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo and
Co-Author of “Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed”
Think Tank Sponsors
AHIC 2010 is grateful to the following sponsors for supporting this Think Tank session and for their thought leadership.
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