15th Annual Healthcare Summit Disruptive Forces in Healthcare Jun 22-23, 2015, Kelowna, BC

General Information

Held in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, the 15th Annual Healthcare Summit is a forum that allows Canadian healthcare officials, senior policy makers, and the private sector to meet and discuss the ways in which government transforms the quality healthcare delivery arena to produce effective and efficient solutions.

This conference brings together many of the best subject matter experts in the field to share case studies, cutting edge policy, programs, research and technologies aimed at successful collaboration within shared services and the healthcare industry. It also provides sponsoring companies the opportunity to showcase their newest products and latest innovations.

Target Audience

  • Federal, provincial and regional healthcare officials
  • Senior policy makers
  • Intelligence and technology officials
  • Academics
  • Healthcare professionals

Conference Rates

Early Bird Rate (before May 1, 2015) Regular Rate (after May 1, 2015)
Public Sector $475.00 CAD (plus GST) $550.00 CAD (plus GST)
Private Sector $675.00 CAD (plus GST) $750.00 CAD (plus GST)

 

The Delta Grand Okanagan Resort

Ideally located on the shores of majestic Okanagan Lake, this destination resort and conference centre was recently ranked among the Top Waterfront Hotels in Canada by Canoe.ca. Nestled in the heart of Canada’s wine country, our Kelowna hotel boasts 390 guest rooms, villas and suites, offering city, lake or mountain views. Visit the nearby vineyards and wineries for exclusive tastings or, depending on the season, enjoy a day of skiing, golfing, boating or cycling with spectacular views of Okanagan Lake and the surrounding mountains.

Contact Information for the Delta Grand Okanagan:

Reservations: 250-763-4500 or 1-888-890-3222
1310 Water Street
Kelowna, BC V1Y 9P3
Canada

 

Keynote Speakers

Gary Christensen

General Manager, States and Public Sector, InterSystems Corporation

Ian Fish

Managing Principal, Western Canada Enterprise, TELUS Health & Payment Solutions

Judy Murphy

Chief Nursing Officer and Director-Global Business Services, IBM Healthcare

Hitesh Seth

Sector VP, Consulting Services, Global Health Industry, CGI

Dr. Anne Snowdon

Academic Chair, Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation

Speakers

Dr. Allen Ausford

Family Physician, Meadowlark Health Centre

Mark Chase

Executive Director, Decision Support, Vancouver Coastal Health

Carol Chouinard

Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Gary Christensen

General Manager, States and Public Sector, InterSystems Corporation

Catherine Claiter-Larsen

Vice President, Quality Systems and Chief Information Officer, Island Health

Dr. Chris Eagle

Professor, University of Calgary

Dr. Diane Finegood

Professor, Simon Fraser University

Ian Fish

Managing Principal, Western Canada Enterprise, TELUS Health & Payment Solutions

Stefan Fletcher

CEO, RebalanceMD

Gary Folker

Executive Vice President, Orion Health

Shanti Gidwani

National Senior Director, Healthcare, Cisco Systems Canada

Mal Griffin

Chief Information Officer and Corporate Director, Service Innovation, Interior Health

Dr. Robert Halpenny

President & CEO, Interior Health

Dr. Kendall Ho

Director, Digital Emergency Medicine, UBC

Reg Joseph

Vice President, Translational, Product & Technology Innovation, Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Daniela Lockhard

Vice President Business Development North America, Strata Health Solutions

Dr. Alan Low

Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC; Manager, Reimbursement and Medical Affairs, Servier Canada

Tara Mahoney

Healthcare Practice Leader, Senior Director, Avaya

Andrew Montgomerie

Director, Financial Services and Health Care Programs, WorkSafeBC

Judy Murphy

Chief Nursing Officer and Director-Global Business Services, IBM Healthcare

Dr. Blair O'Neill

Associate Chief Medical Officer, Strategic Clinical Networks, Alberta Health Services

Penny Rae

Chief Information Officer, Alberta Health Services

Bob Rauscher

Vice President, Western Canada, MEDEC

Brian Reed

Chief Technologist Healthcare, Hewlett-Packard Company

Bill Reid

Senior Director of Public Sector Consulting, MNP

Sheri Ross

Senior Clinical Analyst, TELUS Health Provider Solutions

Hitesh Seth

Sector VP, Consulting Services, Global Health Industry, CGI

Jeremy Smith

Executive Project Lead, Doctors of BC

Dr. Anne Snowdon

Academic Chair, Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation

Dr. Lynn Stevenson

Associate Deputy Minister – Health Services, Ministry of Health, Province of British Columbia

Howard Waldner

Former President and CEO, Island Health; Adjunct Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

Jim Wilson

President and Founder, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation

Dr. Mark Wolff

Principal Industry Consultant, Health and Life Sciences Global Practice, SAS
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

3:00-5:00

Registration

Monday, June 22, 2015

7:30

Registration

7:30-8:45

Morning Coffee (Sponsored by BCGEU)

8:30-8:40

Call to Conference

8:40-9:50 Presentation Files Catherine Claiter-Larson Robert Halpenny Lynn Stevenson

Opening Remarks by Senior Health Executives

Healthcare leaders share their stories of challenges and visions in the search for effective and efficient healthcare delivery throughout Western Canada.

Presentation Files Catherine Claiter-Larson Robert Halpenny Lynn Stevenson

9:50-10:10 Grand Foyer

Morning Break

10:10-10:45 Presentation Files Judy Murphy

Keynote Address: Beyond the EHR: Mobility, Patient Engagement, and Analytics

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a critical component of providing effective and efficient patient-centered care, yet it is not the total solution for driving the changes needed for health care transformation. There are other enabling technologies that are beginning to show promise, with mounting evidence of the importance of integrating solutions to understand how to deliver value in healthcare, be aware of what it costs to do so, and recognize how to continuously improve. This session will share ideas on how to use the power of data and technology to make a difference in the health and healthcare of individuals.

Presentation Files Judy Murphy

10:45-11:55 Presentation Files Penny Rae Mark Wolff Mark Chase Brian Reed

Panel A: Big Data Analytics (BDA) and Innovations at the Edge

“Like all new technologies, BDA is being introduced to the health sector with much promise. However, its capabilities, opportunities and benefits still need to be proven through clinical and administrative applications. In light of these challenges, for those who decide to invest in BDA, Infoway strongly advises stakeholders to invest through scope-limited pilot projects. Iterative and step-wise project investments will limit capital requirements and permit stakeholders to study the feasibility and utility of the new capabilities before committing additional resources. Pilot projects should focus on providing insights into specific and pressing clinical or business problems which are supported by clear use cases, while allowing for some experimentation. Wherever possible, existing infrastructure assets, information sets and partnerships should be leveraged." (Taken from 'Big Data Analytics in Health' by Canada Health Infoway.)

The panelists in this session will provide insight into current initiatives in BDA, two years following publication of this white paper.

Presentation Files Penny Rae Mark Wolff Mark Chase Brian Reed

11:55-1:00 Grand Foyer

Networking Luncheon (Sponsored by Symantec)

1:00-1:35 Presentation Files Hitesh Seth

Keynote Address: Innovation Opportunities for Canadian Health Systems

The state our health system is such that much needs to be done for improvements. In measures of access, quality and costs the Canadian Health system has steadily declined when measured against other Health systems in the Western world. There has been much discussion about these challenges. While changes to incentive structures and policy are being explored and in different stages of implementation across the country, many opportunities to enact changes are also within the realm of the leadership of health providers. However, a large constraining backdrop towards innovation is the limited availability of capital for investment. Federal and Canadian provinces have extended health investments to such a degree that additional investments are extremely constrained.

This session will identify macro-economic challenges in the health system and the Innovation opportunities to improve access, quality and cost, with a focus on better extracting value from how working capital is deployed.

Presentation Files Hitesh Seth

1:35-2:45 Presentation Files Tara Mahoney Bob Rauscher Blair O'Neill

Panel B: Disruptive Technology in Clinical Settings

Panelists will discuss how disruptive technology in clinical settings affects patient outcomes and what are the best practices to facilitate the rapid adoption of disruptive and incremental innovation into the Canadian marketplace utilizing a comprehensive network of stakeholders to facilitate this change from assessment to adoption.

Presentation Files Tara Mahoney Bob Rauscher Blair O'Neill

2:45-3:05 Grand Foyer

Afternoon Break (Sponsored by Symantec)

3:05-4:15 Presentation Files Shanti Gidwani Sheri Ross

Panel C: Consumer/Patient Centered Virtual Healthcare: How is it Guiding the Path in Healthcare

Across the world, citizen expectations about how they participate in the delivery of their healthcare services have shifted. At the same time, technology has evolved from systems designed for providers to those designed for patients. Patients from all walks of life are more informed, have an increased ability to understand medical information, and are ready and willing to engage with their providers through the use of technology. While legislation lags behind technology capability and citizen expectations in some jurisdictions, many countries are making proactive changes. The future of patient centred healthcare is here. Are we ready?

Presentation Files Shanti Gidwani Sheri Ross

4:15-4:50

Keynote Address: A New Model for Health Collaboration: Unlocking Interoperability to Drive High Quality Patient Care and Coordination.

A continual challenge for healthcare providers is overcoming the fragmentation of data between EHRs and the lack of interoperability to support engagement and management across the patient care team. Join us to discover how leading healthcare organizations around the globe use successful interoperability to engage patients, enhance care management, and transform the way they deliver care. Hear success stories about how these organizations are forging new and different levels of care management to improve the patient experience of care and outcomes.

Tuesday, June23, 2015

7:45-8:30

Morning Coffee

8:25-8:30

Administrative Announcements

8:30-9:05 Presentation Files Ian Fish

Keynote Address: Focus Reset: Adopting a “first mile” Mindset to Empowering Healthcare Consumers

Over the past twenty-five years, Canada’s healthcare players have all invested in important efforts to improve the efficiency of our health system. Quality initiatives, downsizing, and cost cutting, as well as improvements to provider productivity and technology solutions that enable information sharing across the care continuum have made a mark in the delivery of healthcare. But it’s not enough. Timely access to affordable healthcare continues to plague the nation. It’s time to change the channel and look at the problem with a disruptive view. Up until now, the focus has been on equipping healthcare providers. What about patients, the healthcare consumer? While the healthcare consumer is often thought of as the “last mile” for health system connectivity, today’s brave new mobile, cloud-fuelled and social digital landscape suggests that we are really at the very beginning of true healthcare transformation. Adopting a “first mile” consumer orientation puts a priority on extending quality healthcare beyond hospital walls and into the community. Ian will explore the coalescing disruptive technologies, and the social forces, that both enable and hinder a consumer first-mile approach to delivering health care in a less costly, and more convenient location – the patient’s home.

Presentation Files Ian Fish

9:05-10:15 Presentation Files E-Referral Panel

Panel D: E-Referrals a Case Study in Innovation

This session will take an evidence-based approach to illustrating real-world case studies where forces have been the stimulus for innovative breakthroughs. Examples will examine cases in healthcare and the private sector where the progress of disruptive innovation has driven organizations to ultimately embrace and re-structure themselves to adopt proactive responses.

Presentation Files E-Referral Panel

10:15-10:35 Grand Foyer

Morning Break

10:35-11:10

Keynote Address: Evidence that Drives Innovation and Change: “What is Cool, What is Problematic, and What is Needed

The presentation will explore the use of evidence to inform health system innovation in Canada. It will profile current challenges and opportunities that accelerate innovation, and discuss how health leaders can better leverage evidence to drive innovation adoption, scalability and transformation of health systems. Global comparisons of health system trends will be profiled in the presentation.

11:10-12:20 Presentation Files Kendall Ho Alan Low Bill Reid

Panel E: How Do We Tell the Difference between What’s Cool, What Works and What the Unintended Consequences Are?

Consumers may be attracted to what’s cool, but innovations that are cool may not be effective and worse could have negative unintended consequences. Today’s rapid cycle of innovation, including adaptation and improvement based on user feedback, is a very different paradigm as compared to gold-standard approaches to assessing effectiveness based on clinical trials which require a much longer timeline and little adaptation. How can the research and development enterprises adapt so as to provide an evidence base to inform decision-makers, including patients, practitioners and health system leaders?

Presentation Files Kendall Ho Alan Low Bill Reid

12:20-12:30

Closing Remarks

12:30-1:30 On the Patio

Networking Luncheon (sponsored by Cerner)

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Conference Sponsors & Exhibitors

The Delta Grand Okanagan Resort

Ideally located on the shores of majestic Okanagan Lake, this destination resort and conference centre was recently ranked among the Top Waterfront Hotels in Canada by Canoe.ca. Nestled in the heart of Canada’s wine country, our Kelowna hotel boasts 390 guest rooms, villas and suites, offering city, lake or mountain views. Visit the nearby vineyards and wineries for exclusive tastings or, depending on the season, enjoy a day of skiing, golfing, boating or cycling with spectacular views of Okanagan Lake and the surrounding mountains.

The Delta Grand Okanagan Resort is offering a special conference rate of $219/night for conference delegates. To book a room online please go to:

https://www.deltahotels.com/Groups/Delta-Grand-Okanagan-Groups/Reboot-15th-Annual-Healthcare-Summit

If booking a room by phone please quote “Reboot 15th Annual Healthcare Conference”. Please note that this room block ends June 8, 2015.

Contact Information for the Delta Grand Okanagan:

Reservations: 250-763-4500 or 1-888-890-3222
1310 Water Street
Kelowna, BC V1Y 9P3
Canada

https://www.deltahotels.com/Hotels/Delta-Grand-Okanagan-Resort-Conf-Cntr