Sponsor Symposia

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 1

Pan-Canadian Trust Framework:

In this session, Infoway and Deloitte will provide an overview of the Connected Care Trust Framework and its critical role in enabling secure, interoperable, and person‑centred health data exchange across Canada. The session will explain how the Framework establishes shared legal, technical, and governance foundations that reduce integration complexity, accelerate onboarding, and support trusted data sharing across jurisdictions. Participants will gain insight into why the Trust Framework is foundational to Canada—enabling priority use cases such as patient access, clinical care, public health, and research while supporting long‑term innovation at national scale.

WorkforceWiser:

WorkforceWiser is an AI-enabled workforce optimization solution designed to help Canadian hospitals address complex staffing challenges. By integrating data from HR, scheduling, and clinical systems, it provides leaders with clear visibility into workforce availability, skills, and patient demand. WorkforceWiser uses predictive analytics to forecast patient volumes and identify potential staffing gaps, enabling proactive workforce planning. This approach helps reduce overtime, mitigate burnout, and improve patient outcomes. By shifting organizations from reactive to proactive staffing, WorkforceWiser supports more efficient operations and better alignment of staff to care needs.

Speakers

• Mike Morrison, Director, Technology & Transformation, Deloitte Canada
• Cassandra Fusco, Director, Enablement Services | Directrice, Services de facilitation, Canada Health Infoway
• Atir Syed, Partner, National Life Sciences and Healthcare Human Capital Leader, Deloitte Canada
• Noura Gharibo Shaw, Vice President, People, Culture & Governance and CHRO, Scarborough Health Network
• Amanda Presa, Director, Scheduling & Workforce Optimization, Scarborough Health Network

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 2

Healthcare systems across Canada are undergoing significant transformation as regionalization efforts reshape how care is delivered and how technology is deployed. For imaging informatics leaders, this shift is driving a renewed focus on doing more with less—leveraging cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and artificial intelligence to improve access, efficiency, and clinical insight at scale.

This session explores how cloud and AI are enabling a new model for imaging ecosystems: one that supports regional collaboration, reduces infrastructure burden, and accelerates innovation while maintaining high standards for performance, security, and patient care.

Panelists will discuss emerging approaches to cloud- based imaging platforms, the growing role of AI in clinical workflows, and how organizations are balancing innovation with the practical realities of system integration, governance, and operational constraints.

Featuring perspectives from Philips, AWS, and healthcare CIO leaders Dave Brewin (Royal Victoria Hospital) and Ted Scott (Hamilton Health Sciences), this conversation will highlight lessons from the Canadian landscape and explore how collaboration between providers and technology partners can help shape the future of imaging informatics.

Speakers

• Dave Brewin, Vice President, Digital Health & Regional Chief Information Officer, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
• Elizabeth Keller, National Healthcare Business Development Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Canada
• Ted Scott, Chief Innovation Officer, Hamilton Health Sciences
• Nathan Bluvol, Head of Healthcare Informatics, Philips Canada

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 3

Health systems across Australia, the UK and Canada face a shared challenge: hospital capacity constrained not by physical beds, but by the flow of patients through them. Emergency department overcrowding, ambulance oNload delays and extended lengths of stay are symptoms of systemic flow ineNiciencies that digital solutions can address.

This session presents findings from an independent study conducted at Alfred Health, one of Australia’s leading academic health services. The research, undertaken by Monash University and the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, evaluated the implementation of electronic patient journey boards integrated with the hospital’s EMR and quantified their impact on patient flow, discharge planning and operational efficiency.

The presentation contextualises these findings within the broader international evidence base on patient flow, drawing parallels to the capacity challenges facing Ontario hospitals. A panel discussion will then explore how these learnings translate to the Canadian context, considering factors such as EMR maturity, workforce constraints and the unique geography of regional healthcare delivery.

Attendees will leave with practical insights on how digital patient flow solutions can release capacity, improve discharge planning and reduce adverse outcomes associated with patient boarding—without requiring wholesale system replacement.

Speakers

• Nick White, Chief Marketing Officer, Alcidion
• Ron Dunn, Managing Partner & Founder, RLDunn & Associates Consulting Inc.
• Kim Ramirez, Chief Informatics and Data Officer, TransForm Shared Service Organization

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 4

Please join us as we showcase MEDITECH’s embedded AI technology within the Intelligent Expanse EHR Platform, designed to boost efficiencies for patients, providers, and hospital operations.

For providers, AI use cases address real clinical challenges, ease cognitive load and reduce administrative burden. Ambient scribe technology, along with Expanse Navigator, intelligently organizes patient conditions and history. Additionally, the Ask Expanse agent enables patients’ records to be queried through conversational interactions. Efficiencies are also gained through generative AI features like the Hospital Course Summary and Nurse Handoff which auto-draft vital documentation during care transitions, simplifying discharge and transfer processes.

Organizations using Appointment No-Show machine learning model can identify patients for outreach, improving care continuity leading to proactive engagement and greater satisfaction. The MyHealth Assistant chatbot simplifies patient portal navigation and self-service appointment scheduling, fostering greater patient empowerment. By embedding these intelligent capabilities directly into daily workflows, MEDITECH is transforming largely untapped EHR data into consumable, actionable knowledge — ensuring safer, more intuitive care while delivering innovation impacting clinician confidence and patient trust.

Speakers

• Bob Molloy, Director, MEDITECH
• Joe Cordone, Product Manager, MEDITECH

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 5

Canada’s public health system doesn’t need more pilot projects. It needs solutions that scale. Yet despite years of investment, many digital health initiatives still struggle to move beyond early adoption.

In this fireside chat, Elliot Desilets leads a candid discussion with Ronan Segrave, Senior Advisor and former healthcare executive, on how mission-driven partnerships are changing that trajectory. Drawing on collaborative experiences between Petal and Carnarvon Strategies, this session will explore what it takes to move from fragmented innovation to coordinated, system-level impact.

From aligning on shared outcomes to navigating the realities of the public sector, this conversation will unpack how organizations can co-build and deliver value-added services that improve access to care, while actually gaining traction on the ground.

If digital health is at a turning point, what will it take to move from promise to performance?

Speakers

• Elliot Desilets, Director, Government Relations, Petal Health
• Ronan Segrave, Senior Advisor, Tectonic Advisory Services

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 6

Across Canada, growing gaps in primary care access are increasingly driving system strain – contributing to emergency department congestion, fragmented care, inequity, and avoidable downstream demand.

This panel discussion brings together health system leaders, clinical voices, and independent perspectives to explore how jurisdictions are rethinking the “front door” of care in the face of workforce constraints and rising demand. Panelists will examine how primary care access, continuity, and team-based approaches intersect with broader system sustainability goals, including health equity and rural access.

The discussion will surface lessons from different approaches being tested across the system, including virtual and hybrid models, community-based innovation, and policy-level reforms. Rather than focusing on a single solution, the session will explore what decision makers are learning as they attempt to strengthen primary care while operating within limited workforce supply and fiscal constraints.

Designed for CIOs, system planners, and policy leaders, this session emphasizes shared challenges, emerging practices, and strategic tradeoffs shaping the future of primary care and long-term system sustainability.

Speakers

• Ashley Dinn, BNRN, BComm – Director of Community and Virtual Care Services, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
• Dr. Jonathan Fitzsimon, Medical Lead | Assistant Professor, Renfrew County Virtual Triage and Assessment Centre | University of Ottawa, Department of Family Medicine
• Dr. Tracey Parnell, Family Physician & Chair for Primary Care and Rural Medicine, Teladoc Health Canada
• Joby McKenzie, General Manager, Canada, Teladoc Health Canada

Monday, June 15, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 7

The NS Health Authority delivers care to >1 million residents across 45 facilities with a workforce exceeding 23,000. In 2022, challenged by fragmented IT systems, siloed health data, and limited digital access, the CIO partnered with Kainos to adopt interoperability standards, connect medical records, laboratory systems, and scheduling tools and leverage cloud-based infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

Using agile development practices, patient and clinician co-design, and strong executive sponsorship, the initiative applied user-centred design principles and iterative testing and phased rollout. Within 18 months of project initiation:

• An app integrating health information, was successfully deployed across the province with more than 800K downloads
• Secure online access to laboratory results, immunization records, and selected clinical documents with records viewed more than 10.7 million times;
• Enhanced availability of virtual care, particularly benefiting rural and underserved populations;
• Preliminary evidence of reduced administrative workload for clinicians through streamlined digital workflows.
• Patient feedback indicates improved autonomy and confidence in navigating care, while clinician responses highlight more efficient communication and data access.

The NHSA experience demonstrates that large-scale digital health transformation can be achieved within a provincial health system when supported by aligned leadership, patient engagement, and agile technical delivery.

Speaker

Scott McKenna, Nova Scotia Health & IWK Health, Chief Information Officer

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 1

Healthcare systems across Canada are facing growing pressures from chronic disease, workforce shortages, resource constraints, and fragmented patient information. As organizations work to improve care access, coordination, and outcomes, connecting and activating longitudinal health data has become critical.

In this session, leaders from HEALWELL AI and Orion Health will explore how connected health data, interoperable platforms, digital health navigation, and trusted AI are helping transform healthcare delivery from reactive treatment to proactive, preventative, and person-centred care models across Canada.

Drawing on real-world implementations across Canadian public healthcare systems – including interoperability, shared care, and connected care initiatives – speakers will share lessons learned in connecting care across organizations and settings. The discussion will examine how interoperable digital health infrastructure and AI-enabled clinical insight can support earlier identification of at-risk patients, improve care coordination, and enable more proactive, data-driven decision-making.

Attendees will gain insight into the partnerships, implementation approaches, and ecosystem collaboration required to move beyond fragmented health data and enable more connected and preventative models of care across Canada

Speakers

• Sacha Gera, CEO, HEALWELL AI
• Andrea Tait, Senior Vice President, Canada Growth & Public Health Strategy, Orion Health
• Christopher Pettengell, MD, Chief Medical Officer, HEALWELL AI
• Michael Craig, Vice President, National Solutions, Orion Health

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 2

Canada’s health system is sitting on one of its most powerful and underutilized assets: data. From workforce intelligence to population health trends, clinical outcomes to system performance, the potential to transform raw information into meaningful change has never been greater — or more urgent.

In this dynamic panel session, some of our most influential Canadian and UK Health Leaders will be discussing how data is reshaping the way we plan, deliver, and experience healthcare. Moderated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), this conversation goes beyond the technology to examine the real-world decisions, partnerships, and bold thinking required to move from insight to impact at a national scale.
Hear directly from both public and private sector leaders from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Genomics England/NHS England, and Verosource as they share their organizations’ journeys on the data frontier — the breakthroughs, the barriers, and what it truly takes to turn data into better outcomes for Canadians. In this session, panelists will explore:

• How national health data is being leveraged to drive system-wide improvements in care quality, access, and equity in Canada and the UK
• How interoperability, data standards, and cross-sector collaboration are unlocking new possibilities in Canada and globally
• The ethical and governance considerations that must guide responsible data use in healthcare
• What the next frontier of health data innovation looks like — and how Canada can lead

Whether you are a clinician, digital change implementer, policy maker, or technology leader, this session offers a rare opportunity to hear candid perspectives from the executives shaping Canada’s data-driven health future.

Speakers

• Peter Sinden, CEO, MagicHappensHere
• Juliana Wu, Executive Director Health Data Advancement, CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information)
• Elizabeth Keller, National Healthcare Business Development Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Canada
• Mark McAllister, CEO & Co-Founder, Verosource, a HEALWELL AI company

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 3

As healthcare complexity grows, so does the burden on both patients and providers. This session provides a practical overview of how AI and AI agents are solving this two-sided problem.

Attendees will learn how AI is being deployed to help patients easily navigate their health information, while simultaneously tackling the administrative burden that leads to clinician burnout.

Join us as we hear firsthand from a clinician within Google Health and experience a series of live demos by an architect focused on Canadian healthcare.

See these concepts in action through live demonstrations of tailored AI architectures.

Speakers

• Dr. Jen McKay, Senior Clinical Specialist, Google for Health
• Mohamed Nofal, Principal Architect, Google Cloud

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 4

Healthcare is at an inflection point and facing unprecedented pressures including staffing shortages, aging population, rising patient acuity, operational complexity, and fragmented digital tools that create more noise than clarity. Clinicians are asked to do more, faster, with fewer resources. Healthcare organizations often struggle with disparate systems and applications, limited access to data, interoperability gaps, clinical workflow misalignment, and scalability limitations.

A Smart Hospital Platform can help reduce chaos and make care flow by connecting people, devices, data, and workflows. It can stitch disconnected systems together to help Hospitals operate more intelligently and enable Clinicians to focus on what matters most: caring for Patients. A Platform approach can also enable partnering with a limited number of trusted, consultative companies on an enterprise-wide (EMS, ED, OR ICU, MedSurg, etc.) vision and roadmap.

It should include:

• A connected infrastructure where devices become part of the Hospital’s digital fabric • Intelligent communication so Clinicians stay connected
• Managed workflows streamlined across disparate systems
• Virtual care so remote teams can monitor, assess, and support Patients seamlessly
• Ambient intelligence that helps sense what’s happening and enable action before issues arise.

In this session, we’ll discuss how a Smart Hospital Platform could help address your strategic priorities.

Speaker

• Rich Mayoras, Global Director of Connected Solutions, Stryker

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 5

Oracle’s foundation has always been rooted in the power of data. Now in Healthcare, an industry centered on people, that legacy is evolving to support more human-focused, intelligent care.

This education session explores how Oracle brings together futuristic user interface, cloud computing, agentic AI, and ease of operation to enable a secure, end-to-end ecosystem that supports clinicians, administrators, and patients.

Attendees will learn how these technologies work together to unlock insights, streamline operations, and empower organizations to deliver more connected, responsive, and person-centered outcomes.

Speakers

• Andy Smith, President and CEO, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Erin O’Halloran, Vice President and Canada Market Leader, Oracle Health Canada
• Karen Oldfield, Interim President & CEO, Nova Scotia Health
• Dr. David Pichora, President & Chief Executive Officer, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC)

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 6

Every province in Canada has digital health projects aimed at primary care. Most of them have struggled. Not because the technology didn’t work, but because primary care is a fragmented network of independent practices, each with its own workflows, systems, and relationships with the clinicians at its centre.

Primary care is also a battle being fought on multiple fronts simultaneously: a shortage of primary care providers, millions of unattached patients, physicians burning out under an ever-growing information load, and administrative overhead created in part by the very technologies deployed to help. Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan has set an ambitious target of connecting every Ontarian to a primary care provider by 2029. Provinces from Nova Scotia to British Columbia are pursuing patient attachment strategies, EMR standardization initiatives, and care team models. The mandate is clear. The execution is hard.

This session brings together leaders who have built, deployed, and governed digital health solutions inside Canada’s primary care environment, not as outside observers, but as embedded partners who understand how doctors actually work. The panel will examine the most common blockers to successful digital transformation in primary care and explore what a coherent strategy looks like when it must work at both the health system level and the physician’s desk simultaneously.

Topics will include the evolving role of AI in managing clinical information overload, how connected platforms like OceanMD’s patient attachment and e-Referral tools are bridging primary and acute care, and what the next generation of AI-driven EMR infrastructure must deliver to support provincial ambitions.

Speakers

• Ryan MacNeil, Chief of Staff, WELLSTAR Technologies
• Paul Casey, President, Clinic Systems Group, WELLSTAR, WELLSTAR Technologies
• Andrew Bond, Chief Health Officer and Head of Public Sector, WELL Health
• Jeff Kavanagh, CEO, OceanMD
• Paul Maindonald, VP, Strategic Partnerships, OceanMD

Tuesday, June 16, 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Convention Hall Level – Breakout Room 7

Health systems across Canada are facing sustained workforce pressure, particularly in rural and underserviced communities. Burnout, recruitment challenges, and reliance on short-term coverage models are increasingly threatening continuity of care and clinician sustainability.

This moderated panel brings together national workforce perspectives and frontline clinical experience to examine how health systems are responding to workforce constraints – what is proving effective, where challenges persist, and what lessons are emerging through implementation.

Panelists will share practical insights into strategies that are helping reduce burnout, retain clinicians, and extend clinical careers while maintaining safe, reliable coverage. One lens in the discussion will be hybrid approaches that combine onsite teams with virtual clinical support, examined alongside broader workforce strategies.

Through real-world experience, the session will highlight how flexible participation models can strengthen local teams, including enabling onsite nurse upskilling and expanded clinical confidence. Designed for health authority leaders, clinicians, and policymakers, this session emphasizes system level learning grounded in evidence and lived experience, with relevance across jurisdictions and care settings.

Speakers

• Azi Boloorchi Drake, SVP Commercial & Strategic Partnerships, Teladoc Health Canada
• Dr. Kathie McNally, Senior Advisor/Physician, Santis Health
• Dr. Simerpreet Sandhanwalia FRCPC (EM), Emergency Physician, Teladoc Health Canada
• Megan Carey, Interim Director, Primary Healthcare and Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services