COACH is also pleased to announce newly elected Board Directors
""Health informatics plays an increasingly important role in helping Canadians, regardless of their location and resources, achieve good health and access quality care," said Mike, President and Chief Executive Officer, Newfoundland & Labrador Centre for Health Information (NLCHI). "It is a great honour to be working with the rest of the Board of Directors and COACH members to carry out our commitment to advancing the adoption, practice and professionalism of HI. Over the next two years, I am committed to increasing the transparency of the organization to our members and to further mature the organization from a business perspective to increase value to members and the healthcare community at large." <>A longtime COACH member, he has contributed to the association as a Board Director since 2009, serving as President-elect from 2012 to 2014. In his current role with NLCHI, Mike is responsible for leading Newfoundland and Labrador's electronic health record (EHR) development, as well as providing leadership in all areas of provincial HI, including analytics, data quality, standards, evaluation and other health information management and technology initiatives. Mike also sits on the Board of the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research. Among many national involvements, he has served as the Newfoundland and Labrador representative on Health Canada's Electronic Health Records Working Group, the Canada Health Infoway EHR Standards Steering Committee and CIO Forum as well as Chair of the Conference of Deputy Ministers of Health Technical Advisory Committee on Health System Use.
COACH is also pleased to announce newly elected Board Directors:
- Susan Anderson
Assistant Deputy Minister and CIO, Alberta Health Ministry, Government of Alberta; - Elizabeth Keller
Vice President, Product Management & Operations, OntarioMD; - Glenn Lanteigne
CEO, Tectonic Advisory Services Inc.,& SVP IT & CIO, LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services; - Jim Mickelson (Board Secretary-Treasurer)
Executive Regional Director - Western Canada, Canada Health Infoway; - Leon Salvail (Board Vice-President)
President & CEO, Global Village Consulting Inc.
The other members of the 2014 - 2015 Board are: Neil Gardner (Past President), Director, Standards & Patient Safety, eHealth Saskatchewan; Linda Blair, Partner, Deloitte; Sandy Saggar, Director - Information Technology and Clinical Informatics, North York General Hospital.
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