Past Presentations
Helen Angus, CEO, AMS Healthcare and
Matthew Hackenberg, Associate Product and Strategy Director, AI for Healthcare, IQVIA
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can introduce clarity to the clinical journey for the most-challenging diseases and treatment pathways. AI brings power to consume large disparate data sets and transform information into succinct, actionable insights with the power to identify opportunities to reduce avoidable costs, predict medical events, and, ultimately, improve patient care. But developing, implementing, and interpreting to drive actionable results can be challenging without the right data, the right process, and the right actions to be successful. This session will focus on approaches for clinical decision support and identifying opportunities to engage providers with actionable care gaps aligned to best-practice guidelines.
Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO, Healthcare Excellence Canada
Safety is central to healthcare - and about more than the absence of harm. While we need to learn about past harm, we also need to ask proactively whether care is safe today and how it could be safer tomorrow. In doing so, we need to think about all forms of harm – such as over- or under-treatment, delayed or incorrect diagnoses, psychological harm, and culturally unsafe care – in addition to physical harm.
Rethinking patient safety is particularly important now since the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated safety gaps. Join us to explore how to bridge these gaps and ensure that everyone receives the safe, high-quality care they want and deserve.
Brian Golden, Sandra Rotman Chair in Health Sector Strategy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and Dr. Michael Guerriere, President and Chief Executive Officer, Extendicare
Please join Dr. Michael Guerriere in conversation with Brian Golden as they discuss the Ontario healthcare landscape.
There was a time when Canadians could confidently claim theirs was the best health system in the world. Time to face reality – that is no longer true. The system faces major challenges, with access to care at the top of the list of concerns. Despite spending more on healthcare than most developed countries, we struggle to create enough capacity to meet the needs of a rapidly growing and aging population.
What can we do to break out of this chronic decline and bring back a sense of vibrancy and optimism to the healthcare enterprise? Brian and Michael will discuss current trends and new ideas with the potential to change the narrative and address the explosive growth in the seniors demographic that is already upon us. There is lots to be optimistic about, if you know where to look. We need to think differently to create a different dynamic.
Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and a Senior Scientist, CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute and
Nancy Lefebre, Senior Vice President and COO for the Business of Caring, SE Health
Join Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov and Nancy Lefebre as they discuss and offer their insights on the struggles of life limiting experiences and understanding end-of-life care for patients, care providers and medical professionals. Patients and their caregivers require physical and emotional care, especially as they enter the later stages of life. Failure to attend to personhood can be as subtle as being kept waiting for an appointment, as insidious as being required to wear a plastic hospital bracelet that tracks patients according to an institutional number or code, as jarring as being referred to as an aberrant body part - the proverbial "GI bleed in room two" or "breast tumor in room three." This conversation on Dignity in Care will describe what healthcare providers need to know about the humanity and tone of care; and how they can engage in these facets of care in a thoughtful and meaningful way that will satisfy their patients' needs to be seen and appreciated as "whole persons."
Leigh Chapman, Chief Nursing Officer, Health Canada, Tim Guest, CEO, Canadian Nurses Association and Carly Weeks, Health Reporter, The Globe and Mail
Join us for a conversation with the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) CEO, Tim Guest, and Canada’s Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Leigh Chapman focusing on strategies to address today’s health workforce challenges in the context of a global nursing shortage. This event titled “You can’t recruit your way out of a crisis” follows the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress, co-hosted by the CNA in Montreal this past July, where the issue of the global nursing shortage was brought to the forefront as one of the most prominent issues in today’s global health landscape.
In this talk, these nurse leaders will cover current issues, and strategic solutions for the future of nursing. With a focus on how we got here, and where we’re going, the discussion topics will include retention, ethical recruitment, and improving work environments for nurses. The speakers will also highlight their hopes for the future of nursing and Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system.
Catherine Gaulton, CEO, Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC) and Feben Aseffa, Director Health-Care Equity, Quality and Human Rights, Association of Ontario Midwives
With the growing commitment to understanding and addressing the social determinants of health, there is a clearly identified requirement to focus on improving diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) within Canadian healthcare organizations and systems. Data from the recent pandemic and input from HIROC’s Subscribers have identified that to do this effectively, it is critical to understand racism and systemic factors that contribute to inequity and disparate outcomes for patients, providers, and community members. From the delivery of front-line care to senior leadership and executive functioning, addressing systemic racism presents unique challenges and opportunities for healthcare systems and providers.
This session will include a committed conversation on the importance of achieving safety through addressing systemic racism in healthcare. HIROC will facilitate a discussion of and learnings from a case study presented by the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM). As the AOM and HIROC's other Subscribers continue to action safety, we collectively seek to develop generalizable knowledge principles to share across the system - all with a view to understanding these challenges and informing actions to address systemic racism within our systems and the professions.
References
Mpody, C., Best, A. F., Lee, C. N., Stahl, D. L., Raman, V. T., Urman, R. D., Tobias, J. D., & Nafiu, O. O. (2023). Current Trends in Mortality Attributable to Racial or Ethnic Disparities in Post-Surgical Population in The United States: A Population-Based Study. Annals of Surgery Open, 4(4), e342.
OCAP Principles -for collection of data from First Nations: https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/
Engagement, governance, access, and protection (EGAP) framework: https://nccdh.ca/resources/entry/engagement-governance-access-and-protection-egap-framework
Alex Munter, President & CEO, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Jennifer Churchill, CEO, Empowered Kids Ontario-EnfantsAvenir Ontario (EKO), Julia Hanigsberg, President and CEO Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Dr. Ronald Cohn, President and CEO of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Bruce Squires, President, McMaster Children's Hospital and VP, Women's and Children's Health, Tatum Wilson, CEO, Children’s Mental Health Ontario and Nash Syed, President, Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre
Following three years of pandemic, Ontario children faced escalating waits for medically necessary care. In most communities they wait longer than adults, often impacting their development and always impacting their families. In response, the Ontario government made an historic investment of $330M this year to help pediatric hospitals, mental health agencies and rehabilitation centres permanently increase their capacity to help address the needs of a growing population of children and youth. Join us for a discussion with pediatric leaders about the road ahead and why it matters for kids, their families, and the entire health system.
