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As part of the work and commitments outlined in the Working Together to Improve Health Care for Canadians Plan, Canada is implementing the Shared pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap that creates a vision for modern and person-centric health care which is digitally connected and privacy-protected by design. Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Canada Health Infoway are […]

Join us on May 28 at 3:45 PM for the e-Health 2024 Closing Keynote presentation. Closing keynote speaker Tamara Taggart learned how to be an advocate out of necessity. When her son Beckett was born with Down syndrome, healthcare providers were negative and dismissive of his potential. When her son was three years old, Tamara […]

I just returned from a week in Florida. The weather was great, yet I spent much of my time inside the Orlando County Convention Centre, taking in the HIMSS 2024 Conference and Tradeshow. After a slight pandemic dip, the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition is back in full swing, with 30,000 attendees, more than […]

We are excited to introduce Zen Tharani as an official e-Health 2024 Ambassador. Zen Tharani, based in British Columbia, is a leader in the digital health landscape, with over 25 years of extensive experience in management consulting, healthcare innovation, and informatics. As the CEO and Founder of Xenex Consulting Inc. (www.xenexconsulting.com), based in Victoria, Zen […]

Although digital health has been part of our health system for decades, its widespread adoption during the pandemic led to considerable research and innovation that has helped us to understand its effectiveness and efficiency more deeply. Differences have been noted when considering the patient, provider, or systemic perspective. As a patient partner over the last […]

The e-Health 2024 May 28 Opening Plenary Panel will examine the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and explore the ethical and regulatory accountabilities in leveraging AI for public health data and the critical importance of security measures in safeguarding health-related information. Titled ‘Artificial Intelligence in Health and Public Health Data: Balancing Possibilities […]

Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Kathleen Ross will open the e-Health 2024 Conference with a keynote presentation titled ‘Healthcare Human Resources: What Physicians, Nurses, and Healthcare Providers Need to Make Their Jobs Easier and Manage Burnout, Technology, the Administrative Burden of Health, and the Impact on Human Resources‘. Dr. Ross is a family physician in […]

e-Health 2024 is pleased to announce Canada’s longest-serving television Medical Correspondent Avis Favaro as e-Health 2024 Emcee. Avis specializes in health stories that can make a difference in the lives of Canadians. Avis Favaro has always had one mission—telling stories that help Canadians. Favaro began as a news writer at Global Television and then discovered […]

My name is Jenna Kedy, a 19-year-old chronic illness warrior from Nova Scotia, deeply engaged in the realm of patient partnership. Since 2019, at the tender age of 15, I embarked on a journey as a patient partner, collaborating with various organizations, including e-Health. As I reflect on my experiences spanning the pre-pandemic era to […]

Join us at 12PM ET on Wednesday, September 6 for an overview of the e-Health 2024 abstract submission process, with useful tips to help you submit an abstract that will be selected for presentation at e-Health 2024, taking place in Vancouver May 26 – 28. This webinar will cover what to write in your abstract […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) – whether old school AI algorithms using “big data” or new normative models using large language models (such as chat GPT) – is already fundamentally changing how some Canadian physicians work and will impact the very nature of medical practice itself. But whether changing approaches to diagnosis and management augmented by AI […]

It’s been years in the making — CIHI will be co-hosting the annual e-Health Conference and Tradeshow with Digital Health Canada and Canada Health Infoway in person for the first time since 2019. The past 4 years have shown us all the power of connection. The pandemic put a spotlight on the importance of digital […]