Interoperability Saves Lives

Description:

Greg Price is the only Canadian whose death has been ascribed by an independent body to mismanagement of his health information. Yet the lived experience of patients and health care providers suggests that the poor design and use of health information is causing significant harm to Canadians and the health care system. The report Interoperability Saves Lives suggests that unless Canada reimagines how health data is managed the health care system will have difficulties fostering quality health programs and services and minimizing health data related harm. Core to this reimagination is the establishment of person-centric health data interoperability. The recent announcement of Bill C72 by the federal government represents a significant first step in the establishment of health data interoperability in Canada. Teri Price and Ewan Affleck - co-authors of Interoperability Saves Lives - will examine the state of health data interoperability in Canada, why there is reason for optimism, and why we all must be vigilant to assure improved health data design and use in Canada.

Speakers:

Ewan Affleck CM., BSc., MDCM., CCFP.

Ewan Affleck has worked and lived in northern Canada since 1992. He is currently serving as the Senior Medical Advisor - Health Informatics, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, Strategic Advisor - Clinical and Informatics at the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and Chair of the Alberta Virtual Care Working Group. He is the past Chief Medical Information Officer of the Northwest Territories, was co-chair of the national Virtual Care Task Force, served on the Expert Working Group of the pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy, and is the Executive Producer and co-writer of The Unforgotten (2021), an award-winning film about inequities in health service for Indigenous people living in Canada. In 2013, he was appointed to the Order of Canada for his contribution to northern health care.

Teri Price

Teri is currently the Executive Director of Greg’s Wings Projects, a not-for-profit organization created to honour Greg Price. Greg was Teri’s brother, and the impact of Greg’s journey has led to Teri’s commitment, along with her family, to drive improvements in care. Teri is a co-chair of the Alberta Virtual Care Coordinating Body, a public member of Alberta’s Health Information Executive Committee, a member of Health Canada’s Coalition for Action for Health Workers and continues to sit on other provincial and national committees for eHealth, Cancer diagnosis and healthcare strategy. 

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