Why Are the Americans Mapping the Canadian Healthcare IM profile?
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Dave Garets President and CEO of HIMSS Analytic |
| Dave Garets has 30 years of experience in information technology. He is an internationally known author and speaker on information technologies, strategies, benchmarking, and the future of healthcare. He joined HIMSS Analytics in 2004 from Healthlink where he was Executive Vice President. Mr. Garets serves on the editorial advisory boards of three healthcare IT journals and magazines, on the board of directors of HIMSS Analytics and is currently an affi liate professor at the Medical College of Virginia at Commonwealth University. | |
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Ida Goodreau President and Chief Executive Officer of LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services, Canada’s largest provider of community laboratory services |
| Under her leadership, LifeLabs performs 50 million laboratory tests for over 10 million Canadians and 20,000 physicians, annually – tests which help in the treatment, monitoring and prevention of disease in patients. Formerly, Ms. Goodreau was President and CEO of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, one of Canada’s largest healthcare organizations. She has also held executive positions in both the energy and resources sector, including pulp and paper companies in British Columbia, Norway and New Zealand and Union Gas in Ontario. She sits on a number of corporate boards, including in BC, the Boards of Directors of Terasen Gas Inc., the Vancouver Board of Trade, Vancouver Foundation and Streetohome Foundation and is a member of the Board of Governors of the B.C. Business Council. |
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