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2024 Canadian Healthcare Collaborative
Join us for the 2025 Orion Health Canadian Healthcare Collaborative in Toronto!
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Join us in Toronto
Join us in Toronto for the 2025 Orion Health Canadian Healthcare Collaborative, an exclusive, client-only event designed to spark bold conversations and real collaboration.
As Canada’s digital health landscape evolves, this is your chance to help shape what comes next. We’ll explore themes like healthcare sustainability, integrated care, citizen enablement, and access equity, all through the lens of working smarter, together. Expect fresh ideas, practical insights, and the opportunity to co-create priorities for the year ahead.
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Agenda
MORNING
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome & Introduction
Brad Porter, Orion Health CEO and Mark Hindle, VP – UK & Ireland for Orion Health will lead the Welcome and Introduction
10:00 - 10:30 Stay Left. Shift Left 10X
Stay Left, Shift Left 10X is a new global Digital Innovation Agenda for transforming healthcare. We have made remarkable progress as a global society more than doubling life expectancy in two centuries through improved public health and clinical care. However the systems that delivered this are breaking down in the faces of changing demographics, cost and demand. This presentation will share how Digital is the best medicine for our sick healthcare systems.
Presented by Martin Curley, Prof. of Innovation, Maynooth University
10:30 - 11:00 Keynote: Where have we got to with shared care records? A national perspective
Presented by:
- Sarah Pearl, Supplier Engagement Lead- ShCRs, NHSE
- Vikesh Tailor, Regional Lead – ShCRs, NHSE
11:30 - 12:00 Where have we got to with shared care records? View from an ICS region
Moving on from the national view of shared care records, Katie Dowson will cover recent progress with the Doncaster Integrated Care Record including plans to support local delivery of virtual wards, widening access to community groups and voluntary organisations, and linking Place records with the regional record.
Presented by Katie Dowson, Director of Digital, South Yorkshire ICB
12:00 - 12:30 Better data. Better health - the New Mexico story
How the New Mexico Health Information Exchange, SYNCRONYS, connected with strategic partners to expand the contribution of data into the HIE and encouraged collaboration of stakeholders to become the trusted information resource in New Mexico. SYNCRONYS supports improved healthcare, public health and the quality of life for individuals in New Mexico.
Presented by Terri Stewart, CEO, SYNCRONYS
12:30 - 13:15 Panel discussion - Where are shared care records going in the next 12 months?
Presented by
- Jane Owens, Joined Up Care Derbyshire
- Ian Binks, Territory Sales Director, Orion Health
- Terry Murphy, Accounts Director, Orion Health
- Rob Nimmo, Head of Digital Transformation , Cambs & Pet
AFTERNOON
14:15 - 15:15 Product updates & best practices
In this session you will hear about the latest Digital Care Record product capabilities, what’s new with standards, Orion Health’s new approach to standardisation and making new functionality available to customers, roadmap updates and more.
Presented by:
- Ben Wilson, Product Solution Director, Orion Health
- Chris Lucas, VP Clinical Portals, Orion Health
- Aaron Jackson, Medicines Product Director, Orion Health
15:15 - 15:45 A Digital Front Door - the future of citizen engagement
Healthcare systems around the world are beginning to empower people to access and engage with their healthcare through a digital front door. But what is a digital front door? And what’s the potential here in the UK? In this session, Laura will cover: – Why most patient engagement apps are failing today – Why you need a digital front door (DFD) – Machine learning and patient engagement – An overview of our world-leading DFD live in Ontario, serving 15m citizens – A demo of the latest product features – Insight into how to roll out a DFD
Presented by Laura McCrae, Associate Product Director, Orion Health
16:15 - 16:55 Pockets of innovation - success stories from across the UK
Session presented by:
- Chris O’Connell, Business Dev, Black Pear Software
- Paul Cook, Commercial Director, Synanetics
- Ian Clucas, Deputy CIO, Interweave
16:55 - 17:25 Unlocking value with Orion Health’s new Health Intelligence Platform
This exploration of our latest solution to acquire and analyse data for individual, cohort and population health management will cover: – Handling any data type – Portals for patients, clinicians, researchers and analysts – Getting research-ready with de-identify – Embracing chatbots, machine learning and more
Presented by Kevin Ross, Product Director, Orion Health
17:25 - 17:30 Closing remarks
Presented by Mark Hindle, VP – UK & Ireland, Orion Health