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Neil Gardner has a wealth of experience in health informatics, policy and management, serving as CIO for the Ministry of Health in Saskatchewan for several years and having held several senior management positions in the Saskatchewan government including Associate Deputy Minister of Health. Neil has been involved in the foundational health informatics initiatives at the national level in Canada over the past 25 years and has had the unique opportunity of serving as a founding director for both of Canada’s major national agencies in this field - the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canada Health Infoway. He also served for more than a decade on the Board of Canada’s health informatics professional association (formerly known as COACH, now Digital Health Canada). In his retirement from public service leadership roles, Neil continues to be involved teaches an MHA class in health informatics at the University of Regina and as an active member of Canada’s delegation to TC215 and TC 215 plays a leadership role in the development of new standards to address the need for the safe application of health informatics in enabling continuing improvements in the health of our population.
Grant Gillis
Grant Gillis’s association on behalf of Canada with ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics began shortly after the committee’s inception in 1998, and he has been a formal member and regular delegate on behalf of Canada for the last 15 years. Over this time, he has served several terms as Secretary and then Convenor to the international committee’s WG1 Architecture, Frameworks & Models, as well as working at senior levels on several domestic and international strategic planning and operational initiatives advancing the cause of health informatics across the technical committee. As a Canadian delegate to ISO, Grant has also contributed to numerous ballot reviews and led several international project teams, most recently serving as project lead in the publication of a first-of-its-kind international technical specification on the safety of health software used in healthcare systems around the globein the development of new standards, addressing the need for the safe application of health informatics in enabling continuing improvements in the health of our population.
Andrew Grant, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACMI
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Dr. Andrew Grant is a laboratory physician who has been a member of TC 215 since its inception, when he transferred his standards interests from laboratory diagnostics to standards in the emerging field of Health Informatics. He is based at the Université de Sherbrooke, Québec and directs the research group CRED CRED - Collaboration in research for effective diagnostics, interested especially in the role of informatics and standards to support health innovation. He served on the Infoway standards steering committee 2002-2004 and, on the SNOMED, international technical committee committee 2007-2011. He developed a web application to support TC 215 standards management which has now evolved to the SKMT Standards Knowledge Management Tool and it supports a coherent international glossary of Health Informatics term definitions which has currently more than 3000 terms www.skmtglossary.org. He has led a standards document TR 13054 (2012) Knowledge management of health information Standards. He has introduced and led standards work on the Clinical data warehouse, publishing 2 standards documents TR 22221 (2006) Good principles and practices for a clinical data warehouse and TS 29585 (2010) Deployment of a clinical data warehouse.
Peter Humphries
Peter Humphries has led large IT and health system related activities across Canada over decades of consulting and leadership in the public and private sectors. He was an elected leader of Canada Health Infoway's IT Privacy and Security Services Standards Collaborative Working Group from its inception and, in addition to professional board of directors’ experience, has served on national and provincial committees, setting standards for national mental health indicators and guiding e-health initiatives. Canadian and international experience in health care, privacy and security inform Peter's contributions the TC215 TC 215 Mirror Committee and the Standard Council of Canada's Canadian Advisory Committee on the GDPRstandards development activities.
Eugene Igras, MMedSc (Neuroscience), MMath
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