Pan-Canadian Health Information Exchange (HIE) Standards Online 3-Day Virtual Workshop 2025

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 April 28th to Wednesday April 30th. 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.

Our multi-day workshops are flexible—join as many or as few sessions as you'd like!

Workshop Agenda

Monday, April 28, 2025, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT - CIHI Data Standards

  • 4:00pm – 4:40pm PT
    CIHI Data Standards 101: A Path to Interoperability (Shannon O’Connor, CIHI)
  • 4:40pm -5:20pm PT
    Ensuring Quality Data for a Connected Canada (Christine McKenzie, CIHI)
  • 5:20pm – 6:00pm PT
    Health Data Stewardship: A framework to transform health data management & drive change (Jesse Fracassi, CIHI)
  • 6:00pm – 6:30pm PT
    Addressing Disease Risk Factors in Primary Care Settings (Alex Singer, Director, Manitoba Primary Care Research Network)

Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT - Infoway Data Standards

  • 4:00 – 5:00pm PT
    Canadian Standards Release Centre - Advancing Interoperability through Standards Development & Application (Anil Patel, Janice Spence, Myriam Talantiki, Infoway)
  • 5:00 – 5:15pm PT
    Canadian Interoperability Roadmap Updates (Alex Reis, Infoway)
  • 5:15 – 5:30pm PT
    Pan-Canadian Patient Summary Progress (Sonia Balgah, Infoway)
  • 5:30 - 5:50pm PT
    Health Application Lightweight Protocol Progress (Alex Reis, Infoway)
  • 5:50 – 6:00pm PT
    2025 Connectathon Update (Sonia Balgah, Infoway)
  • 6:00pm – 6:30pm PT
    Discussion and Questions (Infoway Team)

Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT - HL7 FHIR 

  • 4:00 – 5:30pm PT
    FHIR questionnaires and maps (Lloyd McKenzie, Chief Standards Officer, Dogwood Health Consulting)
  • 5:30 – 6:30pm PT
    Finding, Using, Shaping Pan-Canadian FHIR Standards : Bases, Cores & Mores (Irfan Hakim, Accenture)

Zoom Information

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Meeting ID: 826 9585 7639

Passcode: 577466

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