Workshop on Health Information Exchange (HIE) Standards

Please join us for the School of Health Information Science 3 day Virtual Workshop on Health Information Exchange (HIE) standards. The workshop will be held over 3 days from 4pm till 6:30pm Pacific Time on Monday May 15th to Wednesday May 17th . Guest speakers from across Canada will be presenting on a variety of HIE-related topics, including the shared pan-Canadian interoperability roadmap, CIHI standards, Health Infoway standards, and HL7 FHIR. Please see the Zoom link and agenda below.


Monday May 15th 2023, 4pm-6:30pm Pacific Time – CIHI Standards and SDOH

  • 4:00 pm - CIHI Standards 101: A path to interoperability (Anne Forsyth, Manager, Data Standards, CIHI). Recording and slides now available. 
  • 4:45pm - Developing Primary Health Care Standards to Enable Interoperability (Alyssa Bryan, Program Lead, CIHI, and Christine McKenzie, Program Consultant, Primary Health Information, CIHI). Recording and slides now available. 
  • 5:15pm - CIHI's Equity Stratifiers: Modernizing our sex and gender data standards (Dana Riley, Program Lead, Population and Indigenous Health, CIHI, and Shannon  O'Connor, Program Consultant, Data Standards, CIHI). Recording and slides now available. 
  • 6:00pm - Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and behavioural risk factors in primary care EMR systems (Alex Singer, Director, Manitoba Primary Care Research Network, MaPCReN). Recording and slides now available. 

Tuesday May 16th 2023, 4pm-6:30pm Pacific Time – Canada Health Infoway standards

  • 4:00pm - Infoway Standards 101: Who are we, what services do we offer, how to get involved? And what's on the horizon (Janice Spence and Julie Boutin, SNOMED CT Subject Matter Experts, Infoway). Recording and slides now available.
  • 5:00pm - Shared pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap (Abhi Kalra, Vice President, Portfolio Management, Virtual Care, Infoway). Recording and slides now available. 
  • 5:45pm - Patient Summaries in the Interoperabiliy Landscape (Attila Farkas, Senior Director, Solution Management & Advisory Services, Infoway). Recording and slides now available. 

Wednesday May 17th 2023, 4pm-6:30pm Pacific Time – HL7 FHIR

  • 4:00pm - Canadian FHIR baseline profiles (Michael Savage, Senior Client Journey and Service Designer, Sun Life). Recording and slides now available. 
  • 5:00pm - FHIR   structured data capture, questionnaires, responses, and structure and Simplifier (Lloyd McKenzie, Chief Standards Officer, Dogwood Health Consulting). Recording and slides now available. 

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