Dr. Echo Enns

Physician Design Lead, Connect Care Project, Alberta Health Services

Echo Enns is a physician design lead for Alberta Health Services’ Connect Care Project. Connect Care is a transformative project; by implementing a common provincial clinical information system, Connect Care will enable consistent practices across Alberta and will improve patient and family care. Dr Enns practices as a family physician and hospitalist at the Peter Lougheed Hospital in Calgary. Dr. Enns has served in diverse leadership positions including Physician Lead of both the Peter Lougheed and the Foothills Medical Center hospitalist programs (first of their kind in Canada). She has lead several QI projects: medication reconciliation, optimization of discharge summaries, ward communications, inpatient glycemic control, reduction of restraint use, and reduction in anti-psychotic and benzodiazepine use in the elderly among others. Dr. Enns brings a deep understanding of front-line clinical work-flows and change management challenges to the Connect Care project team.