Webinars

June 23, 2021 | 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. ET

How are Canadians seeking care during the pandemic? How do we feel about these new health care interactions and what can they tell us about the future of care?

In April 2020, shortly after the onset of the pandemic,...

May 19, 2021 | 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. ET

This virtual mini-conference will focus on current initiatives on the collection, use and sharing of social determinants of health (SDOH) within digital health systems. It is part of the launch of a new working group...

March 24, 2021 | 11 a.m. - 12. p.m. ET

During this webinar, we will share the findings from Infoway’s national survey about Canadians’ use of and satisfaction with e-mental health tools. We will also be joined by Michelle Laplante, Policy and Planning...

March 4, 2021 | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. ET

Canada has been a pioneer in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and Canadians have already benefitted from the investments and advancements that AI has brought to the delivery of health care. A recent

November 19, 2020 | 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. ET

Citizens access to their personal health information (PHI) has become a common objective in many health care organizations and governments around the world. Countries are now realizing the benefits of their...

June 10 from 12-1 p.m. ET

Experts have long touted the cost and time savings associated with virtual health care, but its potential environmental benefits have received less attention. As a lower-carbon alternative to traditional care delivery, virtual care...

In collaboration with the Canadian Nurses Association and the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association, Infoway presented the results from the 2020 National Survey of Canadian Nurses.

Learn more about nurses' use of digital health technology in...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT^® clinician webinar series. Please note that this recording is primarily audio.

November 5, 2019 | 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. ET

PrescribeIT^® integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT^® clinician webinar series.

October 8, 2019 | 1:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET

PrescribeIT^®, Canada's electronic prescribing service, integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and pharmacy...

September 20, 2019 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET

The use of foreign exam management to share diagnostic images (DI) and reports across disparate organizations has been well adopted across various provinces and territories in Canada. It is common that each site...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

September 17, 2019 | 1:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET

Join us for the first of three clinician webinars to learn about PrescribeIT®, a national not-for-profit e-prescribing solution that enables the...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

September 11, 2019 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET

This beginner level education session will provide an overview of two types of identifiers commonly used in health care data exchange – object identifier...

This webinar is hosted by Infoway’s Benefits Evaluation (BE) Network.

August 19, 2019 | 5 p.m. ET

Join Dr. Meredith Makeham, Chief Medical Adviser at the Australian Digital Health Agency as she presents findings from the recently published Evidence and...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

June 26, 2019 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET

Join us to learn about the classifications used for ambulatory and acute care data collection in Canada, ICD-10-CA (International Statistical Classification of...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

June 11, 2019 | 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. ET

PrescribeIT™ is Canada’s national not-for-profit e-prescribing service that enables the electronic transmission of a prescription from a...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

May 28, 2019 | 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. ET

PrescribeIT™, Canada's electronic prescribing service, integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and pharmacy management...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

May 14, 2019 | 1:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET

Join us for this clinician webinar to learn about PrescribeIT™, a national not-for-profit e-prescribing solution that enables the electronic...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

April 17, 2019 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET

HL7® FHIR® is the newest health care interoperability standard offered by HL7. It is based on the strengths of the previous standards such as HL7 V2, V3 and...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

March 28, 2019 | 1:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET

PrescribeIT™ is Canada’s national not-for-profit e-prescribing service that enables the electronic transmission of a prescription from a...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

March 27, 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Join us to learn how SNOMED CT, a global clinical terminology, is used to capture terms in the clinical practice at various points of care by health...

Infoway’s Benefits Evaluation Collaboration Network links together jurisdictional leaders, evaluators and researchers to share best practices, results and other insights on digital health evaluation. 

The March webinar provided an update on the network...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

March 7, 2019 | 1:30 pm EST

PrescribeIT™, Canada's electronic prescribing service, integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and pharmacy management systems...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

March 5, 2019 | 1:30 pm EST

PrescribeIT™, Canada's electronic prescribing service, integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and pharmacy management systems...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

February 27, 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

This presentation will help to unpack LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) and why it is such an important contributor to better...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

January 16, 2019 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

This presentation helps to explain how the collection of standardized patient information facilitates better patient care. This beginner level...

December 10, 2018

The 2018 Canadian Physician Survey focused on the use of digital health technologies in practice by primary care (FPs/GPs) and specialist physicians in Canada. Findings highlight a current snapshot of optimized electronic medical record...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

December 5, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Join us to learn how the Primary Health Care Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Content Standard, offers a great potential as pan-Canadian standards to...

November 22, 2018 

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

PrescribeIT™, Canada's electronic prescribing service, integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and pharmacy management systems (PMS)....

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

November 20, 2018 

PrescribeIT™, Canada's electronic prescribing service, integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and pharmacy management systems (PMS)....

Powered by Infoway and working in partnership with the country’s most innovative organizations, ACCESS Health is spearheading Canada’s transformation into a global digital health leader. We’re harnessing the power of Canada’s technology sector and...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

October 24, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

This presentation will help to explain how the collection of standardized patient information facilitates better patient care. This beginner level education...

This webinar is part of the PrescribeIT™ clinician webinar series.

October 9, 2018 

PrescribeIT™ eliminates paper prescriptions, safeguards patient health data from commercial use and maintains an influence-free prescribing and dispensing environment for...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

September 12, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Join us to learn about the classifications, ICD-10-CA (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems Tenth,...

In collaboration with the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), Infoway recently completed a comprehensive study to estimate the evidence-based value of citizen access to their health information and a set of digital health e-services. Grounded...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

June 13, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Come join us to learn about how the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set provides a consistent approach to the identification and naming of medications and a...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

Join us to learn about SNOMED CT® (Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms), a multilingual and global clinical healthcare terminology can represent clinically relevant...

This webinar is part of the Infoway standards webinar series.

With the advent of new electronic health record (EHR) implementations the timing is ripe to articulate a national strategy to unite Canadian nursing in representing, teaching, capturing, and...

April 4, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

With investment from Infoway and its partners in electronic health records, clinicians are beginning to have better access to patient information across the health care system continuum. The Infoway pan-Canadian...

Presenters:

Mario Voltolina, Executive Director, PrescribeIT™
Tania Ensor, Marketing Strategy and Stakeholder Relations, PrescribeIT™

Description:
To improve medication management, help support the fight against opioid misuse, and help strengthen...

Presenter: Guy Pare, MSc, Ph.D, Chair, Digital Health, HEC Montreal

The Diffusion of Smart Devices for Health in Canada study sought to understand consumer use patterns for mobile apps and smart devices to monitor health and well-being. This is the...

The latest national survey of nurses on their use of digital health technologies in practice was released in May 2017. Commissioned by Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and Canadian Nursing Informatics Association...

May 11, 2017

Canada Health Infoway's (Infoway) Clinical Peer Network is a peer-to-peer program that promotes the active engagement of health care providers involved in the implementation of digital health systems across Canada. The Registered Nurses...

Thursday, October 13, 2016 

Interoperable electronic health record (iEHR) adoption has reached a critical mass of users with iEHRs available in all provinces and territories. Clinicians and other health care professionals in hospital and community...

September 28th, 2016 1:00pm – 1:45pm

Sierra Systems shares success and benefits from using Infoway Message Builder to build a standards-based interface for the Provider Registry System (PRS) used in multiple Jurisdictions. The Provider Registry System...

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Every individual has a right to their personal health information. This includes mature minors, or adolescents – those under the age of majority. As the use of digital health technology expands across Canada, a focus on the...

Virtual care is advancing in modern health care systems, and across Canada. Infoway commissioned research to examine virtual visits, also known as e-visits, in British Columbia. This webinar delivers the results of a patient survey and in-depth...

Are you looking for advice about how to plan for or operate a health information network (HIN)? What is a HIN anyway? How is a HIN different from a health information exchange (HIE)?

In this webinar, Infoway’s Chief Technology Officer, Dennis Giokas,...

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The latest Infoway pan-Canadian benefits evaluation study will be released in a webinar on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Authored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the study The Emerging Benefits of EMR Use in Ambulatory Care in...

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Are you interested in, or responsible for, employing information systems to better serve residents of Canada, the clinicians who care for them, and the organizations that provide health services?

Have you been using the EHRS...

Thursday, March 17, 2016

More and more clinicians in Canada are making the switch from paper records to electronic medical records (EMRs). In doing so, they are generating an ever increasing volume of patient data. How can they get direct value from...

Monday, February 1, 2016

In this webinar, as part of the Data Impact Challenge II, Jennifer Frood from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) will present a step-by-step guide to building a strong analysis, including some of her most...

Wednesday, January 27

Why is it so difficult to introduce digital health innovations into Canada’s health care system? What are the enablers for success and what are the potential barriers that may prevent success?

In this webinar, Infoway’s Chief...

Thursday, January 14, 2016

In Canada, patient access to their own health information online is gaining momentum. This webinar will provide an overview of leading Canadian examples, such as direct patient access to their laboratory results, and highlight...

In just eight weeks, The Data Impact Challenge demonstrated the feasibility of a new model for answering health care practice and policy questions quickly and with confidence through multi-source evidence. In the Data Impact Challenge Webinar Series, we...

December 9, 2015

In just eight weeks, The Data Impact Challenge demonstrated the feasibility of a new model for answering health care practice and policy questions quickly and with confidence through multi-source evidence. In the Data Impact Challenge...

Thursday November 19th

Canadians, without question, want to be more active members of their own health care team:  80% want access to their health records and other digital health solutions, such as e-booking and e-visits and 96% think it's important the...

November 18, 2015

In just eight weeks, The Data Impact Challenge demonstrated the feasibility of a new model for answering health care practice and policy questions quickly and with confidence through multi-source evidence. In the Data Impact Challenge...

November 17, 2015
12:30 p.m. ET

Learn about approaches to sharing standard health information in various health care settings from across the country. The session will provide insights from pilot projects and Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)...

November 16, 2015
12:30 p.m. ET

This webinar will highlight work that Canada Health Infoway is supporting across the country to improve patient care in the priority areas of Medication Safety at Transitions of Care, e-Prescribing, Immunization and...

October 28, 2015

In just eight weeks, The Data Impact Challenge demonstrated the feasibility of a new model for answering health care practice and policy questions quickly and with confidence through multi-source evidence. In the Data Impact Challenge...

October 20, 2015

In just eight weeks, The Data Impact Challenge demonstrated the feasibility of a new model for answering health care practice and policy questions quickly and with confidence through multi-source evidence. In the Data Impact Challenge...

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Data Impact Challenge demonstrated that in only eight weeks teams were able to prepare quality responses to important health care questions. In partnership with Choosing Wisely Canada, Canadian Institute for Health...

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Canada Health Infoway conducted the 2015 National Change Management Survey to gain insights into the use of Change Management best practices, resources, enablers and barriers to change as well as the awareness and usefulness of...

Friday, June 19

The latest ImagineNation Challenge – the Data Impact Challenge – is well underway with researchers and data analysts from across the country answering the challenge questions and vying for up to $80,000 in awards.

With only one month...

May 12, 2015

Canada Health Infoway is launching a new ImagineNation Challenge to spur health care innovation.  Join this webinar to learn more about the latest addition to the ImagineNation Challenge family: The Data Impact Challenge.

Launching on May...

April 20, 2015

This webinar will provide insights into the journey underway at Assiniboine Clinic, based in Winnipeg, to implement a preventative focus to Chronic Disease Management over the past 7 years by leveraging stakeholder engagement and...

Thursday, March 26, 2015

The National Physician Survey (NPS) released in December 2014 revealed significant growth in family physician adoption and use of electronic medical records (EMRs), increasing 54 percentage points to 77 per cent between 2006 and...

February 23, 2015

The Alberta Medical Association's Toward Optimized Practice (TOP) has been building improvement capacity in primary care through the Alberta Screening and Prevention initiative (ASaP). To improve their screening care, clinics across...

February 5, 2015

What's holding back some clinicians and consumers from adopting digital health solutions? Is it frustration over repetitive logons and having to use numerous digital identities? Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) believes that clinicians and...

January 29, 2015

Central Hastings Family Health Team (CHFHT), recognized in 2014 by Canada Health Infoway in partnership with Accreditation Canada as a LEADing Practice organization and by the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario with a Bright...

December 11, 2014

Discover:

• Why nearly 90% of Canadians would like to be able to e-book appointments with their health care provider, if it was available;
• How e-booking can improve both clinician and patient satisfaction, save time and decrease no-show
...

December 4, 2014

Part II focused on workflow analysis and integration, training and education, monitoring and evaluation. Our presenters shared how these key change management elements have been practically applied, tools used, and lessons learned from...

November 14, 2014

The use of consumer health solutions is growing every day but how ready are we for change? In this webinar, we discussed the progress of consumer health solutions, enablers and barriers to change, and what Canada Health Infoway is...

November 6, 2014

Part I focused on governance and leadership, stakeholder engagement and communications. Hear how the cGTA EHR project leveraged an effective Governance and leadership strategy as the foundation for a large change initiative. Also hear...

October 2, 2014

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) provides a great example of the importance of monitoring and evaluation in a multi-phase implementation. During the EHR implementation at CHEO, the team has applied effective monitoring and...

September 24, 2014

In a recent national nurses' survey commissioned by Canada Health Infoway and the Canadian Nurses Association, 83% of nurses indicate they are comfortable using digital health tools in practice. In the same survey, much fewer nurses...

July 29, 2014

Marie Rocchi, (Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto) representing the Association of the Faculties of Pharmacy in Canada (AFPC) as Faculty Lead presented the innovative "Informatics for Pharmacy Students e-Resource"...

June 25, 2014

Elizabeth Keller, Chair of the COACH eSafety Council presented the ‘tried and tested’ set of eSafety Guidelines, designed to ensure patient safety throughout the entire lifecycle of eHealth products and initiatives.  Hear how COACH is...

June 19, 2014

In this webinar, members of Canada Health Infoway’s Emerging Technology Group talked about the clinical uses of these technologies, as well as the economic value and the privacy, security and operational considerations. You will also hear Infoway’s views...

June 10, 2014

Canada Health Infoway commissioned Ernst & Young to conduct Connecting Patients with Providers: A Pan-Canadian Study on Remote Patient Monitoring to apply evidence and lessons learned in Canada and abroad to help inform future Remote...

May 27, 2014

This webinar was presented by Infoway's ImagineNation Challenge team and guest speaker Julie Latreille, Capacity Building and Quality Improvement Plan Specialist at Health Quality Ontario.

March 6, 2014

This webinar was delivered by Janet Sharpe and Anne-Marie Parent from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario on their successful approach to workflow analysis and integration that has evolved during their ongoing ambulatory clinical...

January 30, 2014

This webinar was delivered by Dennis Giokas, Chief Technology Officer, Mark Nenadovic and Stanley Ratajczak, Group Directors, Emerging Technology Group on the economic value of mHealth, opportunities for its effective application in...

January 21, 2014

During this Webinar participants were introduced to the new ImagineNation Challenge – the e-Connect Impact Challenge. Participants learned everything they were curious to know about the Challenge including eligibility, the $1 million in...

October 16, 2013

This webinar was delivered by Guy Paré (Lead Researcher and Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Information Technology in Health Care) and Marie-Claude Trudel (Researcher, Information Technology Department, HEC Montreal). The aim of this...

September 26, 2013

This Pan-Canadian Change Management Network webinar was delivered by Dr. Jeremy Theal, Chief Medical Information Officer & Staff Gastroenterologist and Sandy Saggar, Director of Information Technology and Clinical Informatics at North York...

June 6, 2013

This webinar was delivered by Dennis Giokas and Alex Mair of Infoway's Emerging Technology Group. They focused on what Big Data Analytics (BDA) means to health care, the opportunities that exist and the value it could generate in health...

April 23, 2013

A recent pan-Canadian benefits evaluation study determined the current and emerging benefits of implementing electronic medical records in community-based practices. The accompanying webinar provided an in-depth presentation on the study...

April 3, 2013

This webinar was delivered on April 3, 2013 by Dennis Giokas and Ron Parker of Infoway's Emerging Technology Group. The webinar focused on two emerging interoperability and standards initiatives – Fast Health Interoperability Resources and...

March 7, 2013

This webinar was delivered by Dennis Giokas and Stanley Ratajczak of Infoway's Emerging Technology Group. The focus was on how cloud computing can be used to provide a secure and privacy protective computing environment.

February 13, 2013

There was overwhelming interest in this recent webinar delivered by Dennis Giokas and Ron Parker of Infoway's Emerging Technology Group. The focus was the significant opportunity that exists to use cloud computing to deliver digital...