Health Information Science 2024-2025 Seminar Series
Join us for the School of Health Information Science 2024-2025 Seminar Series. This series features International experts in the field of Health Informatics. With the current global changes and demands in health care, optimizing our systems is becoming increasingly important and urgent. This seminar series will focus on how we can use advances in a range of areas like virtual and patient-centered care, AI and data science to improve health outcomes, and to streamline health care processes.
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Upcoming Seminars:
TBA
Past Seminars:
February 20, 2025 Thursday at 12:00pm Pacific Time
Presenter - Todd Toothill (Sales Manager for British Columbia at MEDFAR Clinical Solutions) -"Empowering the Next Generation of Healthcare Professionals with MYLE EMR"
December 4, 2024 Wednesday at 10:00am Pacific Time
Presenter - Prof Jeremy C Wyatt (Emeritus Professor of Digital Healthcare, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK) - "Improving the impact of AI in practice: we must go beyond testing performance to user impact studies, not straight to field trials" (Recording available)
November 20, 2024 Wednesday at 10:00am Pacific Time
Presenter - Dr. Philip Scott (Professor of Digital Health & Care at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David) - "What's wrong with computational intelligence in healthcare?" (Recording available)
November 6, 2024 Wednesday at 10:00am Pacific Time
Presenter - Dr. Helen Monkman (Assistant Professor and Undgeraduate Advisor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria) - "Improving Laboratory Results Displays for Health Consumers" (Recording available)
October 25, 2024 Friday at 10:00am Pacific Time
Presenter - Professor Chu, Kai Wah Samuel (Professor, Department of Health Sciences, School of Nursing and Health Studies, The Hong Kong Metropolitan University) & Chloe Lam (Research Assistant I (Education Officer), The Hong Kong Metropolitan University) - "Comparative Study of GenAI (ChatGPT) vs. Human in Generating Multiple Choice Questions Based on the PIRLS Reading Assessment Framework" (Recording Available)
October 16, 2024 Wednesday at 10:00am Pacific Time
Presenter - Niels Peek (PhD FACMI FIAHSI, Professor of Data Science and Healthcare Improvement at THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge, UK) - "Bridging the Gap: Challenges and Strategies for the Implementation of Artifical Intelligence in Healthcare" (Recording Available)
October 9, 2024 Wednesday at 10:00am Pacific Time
Presenter - Andre Kushniruk (PhD, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria) - "The Human Factors of AI in Healthcare: Where are we now and where are we going?" (Recording Available)
June 17, 2024 Monday at 12:00pm Pacific Time
Presenter - Alex Mendelev BSc, MBA (Solutions Architect, Google Cloud) - "Google and Generative AI in Healthcare"