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HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Chapter

 

HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Chapter: Digital Health Innovation Conference - November 8, 2023

Thank you to all our members, delegates, speakers, and sponsors for making this year's 2023 conference a success!  We are excited to report the conference sold out. We are reviewing feedback to improve next year's conference - thank you to those who completed our post-conference survey. More details from our 2023 conference will be shared shortly. Please check back soon. 

Sold out conference:

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Thank you to our sponsors:

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2023 AGM and Board

Thank you to our members and speakers for making our 2023 Annual General Meeting a success. For the 2023 President's Welcome by our President, Bobby Gheorghiu, please click here.

As we start a new year, a sincere thank-you for all their work and dedication to our two departing Board members: Dr. Darren Larsen and Merv D'souza.

We also welcome new Board members:

  • Mireille Luc (President Elect and Quebec Representative)
  • Andrew Nemirovsky (ex-officio Member-at-Large and Atlantic Provinces Representative)
  • Joe Mayer (Member-at-Large)
  • Jennifer Backler (Member-at-Large)

For the full 2023 Board click here. Our committees are listed here. Each committee has a different lead or leads. For volunteer opportunities please email us at: easterncanada-est.info@himsschapter.org

 

HIMSS Ontario Thought Leadership - Newsletter 2!

The HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Chapter launched the Content Programming and Thought Leadership Committee in early 2023. Our goal is to share themes, success stories and resources each month to positively transform healthcare in provinces from Ontario east to the Maritimes, including Newfoundland and Laborador. The committee selects monthly themes based on industry themes and members' interest and feedback. Content will be shared via the HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est website, LinkedIn and other official marketing channels.

If you are interested in submitting content to the HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Chapter, please contact us at: easterncanada-est.info@himsschapter.org

  • Newsletter 2 - Multiple perspectives on the use of digital health data
    • we explored the importance of data in digital health from a variety of perspectives. We explore three different viewpoints: Equity and the Social Determinants of Health, Data Bias, and Natural Language Processing (NLP)/Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI). Read these articles to learn how your peers in Canada and globally are addressing various aspects of data in digital health and what the future holds for these important building blocks, technologies, and initiatives. 

 

ELF-HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Mentorship Program

ELF    The annual Emerging Leaders Forum (ELF) mentor-mentee program, in partnership with the HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Chapter, had their official kick-off February 5th, 2024! This program spans 6 months, with the hope of a program wrap-up around June 2024.  Mentees had an opportunity to learn more about HIMSS from Bobby Georghiu, President of the HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Chapter, along with an opportunity to meet others within the cohort, and received valuable advice on how to maximize their mentorship experience from Helen Edwards.

 

 

 

 

 

  

HIMSS Eastern Canada-Est Membership

If you have colleagues who are thinking to join our Chapter, please let them know there are two level of individual memberships – full HIMSS with choice of chapter or chapter-only at a much-reduced cost with limited benefits. More details are listed on the HIMSS Membership page.

 

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