Conferences and Education

Live sessions: February 2, 9, March 2, 9, 2026 · Instructor: Trevor Strome

Every strong digital initiative begins with strong data along with governance. This course breaks down the essential components of data governance, giving you tools to manage data quality, privacy, security, stewardship, and lifecycle management within healthcare environments.

Participants will learn how good governance forms the foundation for safe analytics, operational intelligence, and responsible AI. But more importantly, they’ll learn how to build lasting structures that protect patients, support teams, and reduce risk in an increasingly complex data landscape.

This course is ideal for those leading digital transformation, managing compliance requirements, or implementing new data-driven capabilities.

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Weekly on Tuesdays, February 3–March 24, 2026 · Instructor: Raelynn Douglas

Resilient organizations start with resilient leaders. This course offers an evidence-informed, practical approach to building personal capacity, supporting team well-being, and creating cultures that can thrive even under pressure.

Participants work through their own resilience and career dashboards, mapping out personalized action plans that strengthen emotional intelligence, communication, and the competencies required to lead and build resilient teams in modern healthcare environments.

While emerging tools like AI continue to reshape workflows and expectations, strong leadership remains the constant that determines whether teams feel overwhelmed, or well supported.

Weekly on Wednesdays, February 4–April 1, 2026 · Instructor: Suzanne Schell

Healthcare leaders are under growing pressure to demonstrate the value of every new system, pilot, and improvement initiative. This course teaches participants to apply the Phillips ROI Methodology to healthcare settings, turning outcomes, benefits, and impact into measurable financial results.

You’ll explore real evaluation case studies, learn to isolate the effects of your initiatives, and practice converting improvements into defensible monetary values. With many organizations now seeking to measure the impact of digital tools, including AI solutions, ROI skills have never been more essential.

If you need to prove value, secure funding, or strengthen business cases, this course is designed for you.

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Weekly on Thursdays, February 5–December 16, 2026  · Instructor: Laurie Lafleur

For those seeking a comprehensive foundation in AI within health care, this course offers a full examination of the field: machine learning, natural language processing, generative AI, robotics, clinical decision support, EMRs, and more.

But unlike many AI courses, this one emphasizes the realities of implementation—privacy, cybersecurity, risk mitigation, governance, and trustworthiness. Each session includes “applications” and “implications” discussions that reveal both the potential and the practical constraints of modern AI adoption.

AI 1 is ideal for clinicians, IT leaders, analysts, and executives wanting a full understanding of today’s AI landscape.

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Weekly on Thursdays, February 5–December 16, 2026 · Instructor: Laurie Lafleur

Building on AI 1, this second course moves from theory to real organizational implementation. Participants learn how to evaluate vendors, build AI business cases, develop governance structures, integrate AI into workflows, and manage the change required to make these technologies safe and successful.

The course also explores reimbursement models, procurement strategies, and the shifting Canadian regulatory environment, essential knowledge for any healthcare leader planning or overseeing digital transformation.

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Presented by the Canadian Public Health Association, Public Health 2026 is the national conference where public health professionals come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being for all. 

Live: March 16, March 30, April 13, 2026 · Instructors: Patrick Lo & Brendan Seaton

As health care becomes more interconnected, privacy is now mission-critical, not a compliance afterthought. This course provides a deep dive into Canadian, provincial and international privacy legislation, privacy program development, breach response, and information governance.

You’ll learn how to implement privacy frameworks that enable innovation, rather than obstruct it, including safe stewardship of data used in clinical systems, digital tools, virtual care, and AI-enabled technologies.      

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