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A senior Information Technology Architect and Information Management Consultant with over forty (40) years of experience in the public and private sectors across multiple industries, including high-tech, oil and gas, aerospace and healthcare. Since 1990, Eugene has been involved in the development and integration of Information Technology and Information Management solutions in the healthcare sector in Canada and internationally. Examples include enterprise-wide solutions in Electronic Health Record, Diagnostic Imaging, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Chronic Disease Management, eHealth & Telehealth, Clinical Decision Support, and Information Management solutions. Eugene is a Founder and President of IRIS Systems, a Canadian company that provides advisory, systems engineering and information management services to domestic and international clients. He has been a member of the Canadian ISO/TC215 TC 215 and SCC since 2001 and involved in the development and adoption of Electronic Health Record and Medical Imaging standards and guidelines. He He has also authored specifications in the area of interoperability of systems and networks.
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Heather is a new member to the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) ISO TC215 TC 215 Health Informatics Mirror Committee and is excited to share her clinical knowledge. To contribute most effectively, she has joined the Standards Council of Canada pilot mentorship program to learn from a senior member of the SCC.
Frederic Laroche
Frederic Laroche is a digital health expert with more than 16 years of IT consulting experience, including close to 12 years in healthcare informatics. His main fields of expertise are: architecture, systems integration, interoperability, standards and health information exchange. In his career to date, Frederic has contributed to several large-scale and complex health projects and he played a key role in high-visibility projects for many organizations. Frederic is currently in a Director role at Gevity, where he is responsible for managing and developing the Health Solutions practice, which includes software development, integration and technical services. Frederic has been involved in developing health standards through his work with ISO/TC215 for the last 4 years. His involvement includes review of several standards and attendance to international meetings as part of the Canadian delegation. Frederic was most active with WG1 dealing with architecture, frameworks and models, with a special focus on the ISO 13606 standard for electronic health record communication. In addition to his involvement with ISO/TC215, Frederic is also an active member of the Canadian standards community, and he is currently involved in the Canadian FHIR Implementers Working Group and co-chair of the Canadian FHIR Tooling Workstream. In the past, Frederic was also an active contributor to several working groups part of the Infoway’s Standards Collaborative (SCWGs).
Marion Lyver, MD, FRCP(C), FCFP, CPHIMS-CA
Dr. Marion Lyver is an emergency medicine specialist certified by the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons and the College of Family Physicians of Canada and is an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster U in the Faculty of Medicine. She is a well- known, trusted and well-respected digital health and healthcare consultant, providing services in her areas of expertise to both public and private sector organizations provincially, nationally and internationally for almost 20 years. Marion has served as a two-term elected Convenor (Chair) of ISO Technical Committee 215 (Health Informatics) - Working Group 8 (EHR Requirements) and Vice-Convenor of WG1 – Architecture, Frameworks & Models, two terms as an elected representative on the IHTSDO (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization) Implementation & Innovation Committee, two terms as an elected Board member of COACH – Canada’s Health Informatics Association (now Digital Health Canada) and multi-year terms on Canada Health Infoway governance committees – the Standards Collaborative (SC) Strategic Committee and the SC Coordinating Committee. Marion is among those who have received a national peer recognition award from Canada Health Infoway for her work in advancing health informatics standards to improve quality of care and electronic sharing of healthcare data. At present, Marion acts as CMO for a digitally-driven health services company focused on underserved populations and an advisor to start-up and early stage companies, in addition to continuing her private medical practice.
Aaron Middleton
Aaron Middleton is an Executive Managing Partner at Gevity Consulting Inc., one of Canada’s largest health informatics consulting firms. He has more than 26 years of experience working in IM/IT, with 21 years specializing in health information management and digital health. His experience spans roles in enterprise architecture, standards, strategic planning, project management and, software development and design. Aaron has focused much of his health informatics career on establishing effective collaborations in software and standards innovation, development and implementation. He has had the privilege of successfully engaging in several Canadian initiatives at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels, as well as for indigenous organizations, providing his strategic support, advice and architectural services on numerous projects.
Aaron has been an ISO/TC215 Health Informatics accredited delegate since 2007 and has participated actively on TR 22221 (2006) Good principles and practices for a clinical data warehouse, which evolved to TS 29585 (2010) Deployment of a clinical data warehouse. He also contributed to ISO 21667:2010 Health indicators conceptual framework. Currently, Aaron is Canadian lead on ISO TR 21332 - Cloud computing considerations for health information systems security and privacy. Previously, he provided his expertise as Canada Health Infoway’s Standards Collaborative SCWG #3 – Health System Management Chair (Elected) from 2007 – 2014 and represented CIHI as a voting member of the Standards Collaborative Coordinating Committee of Canada Health Infoway’s Standards Collaborative from 2007-2009.
Michael Nusbaum
Michael Nusbaum is a senior strategist, advisor and thought leader, with more than 35 years of experience devoted exclusively to healthcare. With a background in health services administration and industrial engineering, Michael provides a unique blend of management consulting services to health authorities, governments, hospitals, vendors and professional associations in Canada, the US and around the world. Michael is considered an international expert in healthcare standards & interoperability and represents Canada on the ISO’s Technical Committee for Health Informatics. Michael is a director on several industry boards, including HIMSS-North America (Vice-Chair) and IHE International, and has had academic appointments at 4 Canadian universities.
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Clair Kronk, PhD
Dr. Clair Kronk is a postdoctoral fellow in medical informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is the creator of the first LGBTQIA+ controlled vocabulary for usage in health care: the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation ontology, which contains information on over 15,000 terms. She has worked with HL7 International, SNOMED International, Canada Health Infoway, the Trans Metadata Collective, the Homosaurus, and the American Medical Informatics Association Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force in relation to trans and gender-diverse language representation. Clair completed her PhD in 2021 with her dissertation titled Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation in Medicine: A Linguistic Analysis.
Frederic Laroche
Frederic Laroche is a digital health expert with 20 years of IT consulting experience, including more than 16 years in healthcare informatics. His main fields of expertise are: systems integration, interoperability, standards, architecture, advanced data analytics and health information exchange. In his career to date, Frederic has contributed to several large-scale and complex health projects and he played a key role in high-visibility projects for many organizations. Frederic has a solid background both in technology and business and he works with healthcare and life sciences organizations and startups in Canada and internationally.
Frederic has been involved in developing health standards through his work with ISO/TC215 for the last 8 years. Frederic is currently the Canadian lead for WG11 Personalized Digital Health and he’s also part of the AHG5. Previously, Frederic was most active with WG1 dealing with architecture, frameworks and models, with a special focus on the ISO 13606 standard for electronic health record communication. In addition to his involvement with ISO/TC215, Frederic is also an active member of the Canadian standards community, including the Canadian FHIR Implementers Working Group. In the past, Frederic was also an active contributor to several working groups part of the Infoway’s Standards Collaborative (SCWGs). Frederic is also a digital health and health standards guest lecturer at four Canadian universities.
Marion Lyver, MD, FRCP(C), FCFP, CPHIMS-CA
Dr. Marion Lyver is an emergency medicine specialist certified by the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons and the College of Family Physicians of Canada and an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster U in the Faculty of Medicine. She is a well-known, trusted and well-respected digital health and healthcare consultant, providing services in her areas of expertise to both public and private sector organizations provincially, nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Marion has served as a two-term elected Convenor (Chair) of ISO Technical Committee 215 (Health Informatics) - Working Group 8 (EHR Requirements) and Vice-Convenor of WG1 – Architecture, Frameworks & Models, two terms as an elected representative on the IHTSDO (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization) Implementation & Innovation Committee, two terms as an elected Board member of COACH – Canada’s Health Informatics Association (now Digital Health Canada) and multi-year terms on Canada Health Infoway governance committees – the Standards Collaborative (SC) Strategic Committee and the SC Coordinating Committee. Marion is among those who have received a national peer recognition award from Canada Health Infoway for her work in advancing health informatics standards to improve quality of care and electronic sharing of healthcare data. At present, Marion is a senior associate for a private sector, international health IT advisory and management consulting services corporation, in addition to continuing her private medical practice.
Aaron Middleton
Aaron Middleton is an Executive Managing Partner at Gevity Consulting Inc., one of Canada’s largest health informatics consulting firms. He has more than 26 years of experience working in IM/IT, with 21 years specializing in health information management and digital health. His experience spans roles in enterprise architecture, standards, strategic planning, project management and, software development and design. Aaron has focused much of his health informatics career on establishing effective collaborations in software and standards innovation, development and implementation. He has had the privilege of successfully engaging in several Canadian initiatives at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels, as well as for indigenous organizations, providing his strategic support, advice and architectural services on numerous projects.
Aaron has been an ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics accredited delegate since 2007 and has participated actively on TR 22221 (2006) Good principles and practices for a clinical data warehouse, which evolved to TS 29585 (2010) Deployment of a clinical data warehouse. He also contributed to ISO 21667:2010 Health indicators conceptual framework. Currently, Aaron is Canadian lead on ISO TR 21332 - Cloud computing considerations for health information systems security and privacy. Previously, he provided his expertise as Canada Health Infoway’s Standards Collaborative SCWG #3 – Health System Management Chair (Elected) from 2007 – 2014 and represented CIHI as a voting member of the Standards Collaborative Coordinating Committee of Canada Health Infoway’s Standards Collaborative from 2007-2009.
Michael Nusbaum
Michael Nusbaum is a senior strategist, advisor and thought leader, with more than 35 years of experience devoted exclusively to healthcare. With a background in health services administration and industrial engineering, Michael provides a unique blend of management consulting services to health authorities, governments, hospitals, vendors and professional associations in Canada, the US and around the world. Michael has been actively representing Canada to ISO/TC 215 since 2008, and has served as an elected Vice-Convenor of WG2. Michael continues to participate as a subject matter expert on a number of ISO standards under development, and regularly promotes ISO standards adoption in Canada. Michael concurrently is also the Head of Delegation for IHE International, a “Liaison A” member of ISO/TC 215. Michael is a Past member and Vice-Chair of HIMSS-North America Board, and has been a member of the IHE International Board since its inception.
Ron G. Parker
Ron G. ParkerisPrincipal Consultant, Parker Digital Health Consulting (DHC) Inc. and has 36 years of experience in architecting integrated IT solutions in health and social services enterprises and is currently consulting on Digital Health projects in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Sri Lanka, focused on Digital Health Enterprise Architecture, and standards-based interoperability. Recently, he was lead and a contributing author on the joint ITU/WHO Digital Health Platform Handbook. As a Fellow of HL7 International, he has over 20 years of participation, and currently he is Chair of HL7 Canada, Co-Chair of the HL7 International Council, and an International Director on the HL7 Board.
Derek Ritz
Derek Ritz is the principal consultant at ecGroup Inc., a Canadian professional services firm that provides advisory services to domestic and international clients regarding digital health strategy, architecture, standards, implementation and adoption. He has been an advisor to national-scale digital health infrastructure projects in Canada and in over a dozen countries in southern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Derek is a delegate of Canada to ISO/TC 215 (Health Informatics) and is Canada’s official Liaison to the International eHealth standards profiling organization, IHE. In addition to his consulting work, Derek teaches graduate-level courses in health informatics at the University of Edinburgh, has authored and co-authored multiple books and articles on digital health interoperability, and is an active contributor to a donor-funded project, OpenHIE (www.ohie.org), whose mission is to “improve the health of the underserved through the open, collaborative development and support of country driven, large scale health information sharing architectures.”
Sue Schneider, BA, CHIM, CPHIMS-CA
Sue Schneider is Director, Digital Health, at Ontario Health, with 15 years in roles dedicated to health informatics standards, focused on data exchange, data content and terminology standards for provincial digital health information accessibility and interoperability. She has been a participant in World Standards Day celebrations from 2011-19. Sue has over 36 years experience across acute, community and veterinary health settings, and government focused on health information and informatics standards
Ron G. Parker is Principal Consultant, Parker Digital Health Consulting (DHC) Inc. and has 32 years of experience in architecting integrated IT solutions in health and social services enterprises. Before recently forming Parker DHC, Ron was employed with Canada Health Infoway Inc. (Infoway) for 15 years. Ron is well known to the international health informatics interoperability and information standards communities. He has over 15 years of participation in HL7 International, including roles as co-chair of the HL7 Architecture Review Board, and Chair of the initial FHIR Governance Board. For several years he was also a member of the Canadian delegation to ISO TC215 an active contributor to the information modeling working group. He also led the pan-Canadian Standards Needs Assessment project. This project resulted in the establishment of the pan-Canadian Standards Collaborative, a consortium of public and private sector organizations, associations, and individual members that contributed to the development, adoption, and implementation of health informatics standards across Canada. He is also the author of a definitive white paper on the use of Cloud-based computing environments in health care.
Derek Ritz
Derek Ritz is the principal consultant at ecGroup Inc., a Canadian professional services firm that provides advisory services to domestic and international clients regarding digital health strategy, architecture, standards, implementation and adoption. He has been an advisor to national-scale digital health infrastructure projects in Canada and in over a dozen countries in southern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Derek is a delegate of Canada to ISO/TC215 (Health Informatics) and is Canada’s official Liaison to the International eHealth standards profiling organization, IHE. In addition to his consulting work, Derek teaches graduate-level courses in health informatics at the University of Edinburgh, has authored and co-authored multiple books and articles on digital health interoperability, and is an active contributor to a donor-funded project, OpenHIE (www.ohie.org), whose mission is to “improve the health of the underserved through the open, collaborative development and support of country driven, large scale health information sharing architectures.”
Sue Schneider, BA, CHIM, CPHIMS-CA
Sue Schneider is Director, eHealth Standards, at eHealth Ontario, with 12 ½ years in roles dedicated to health informatics standards, focused on data exchange, data content and terminology standards for provincial digital health information accessibility and interoperability. She has been a participant in World Standards Day celebrations hosted by eHealth Ontario’s Architecture and Standards Division, since 2011, inviting industry leaders to a panel presentation in this highly anticipated and well-attended event. Last year’s event garnered over 300 participants from across Canada with representation from regional delivery partners, vendors, acute, primary, home and community care, academia, and the health information management and health informatics communities. Sue has over 32 year experience across acute, community and veterinary health settings, and government focused on health information and informatics standards, data governance, privacy and analytics. She was a member of the Canada Health Infoway Standards Collaborative – Strategic Committee, Coordinating Committee, and Clinical Sub-Committee that were responsible for coordinating health information standards in Canada. Sue applied her leadership skills and terminology standards expertise as chair of the Standards Collaborative Working Group for Terminology Representation and Services (SCWG 9) Feb 2010 – Mar 2014. She has contributed to the development and review of ISO and HL7 standards, and has been participating participant in the TC215 TC 215 Mirror Committee for 8 years9 years and is a champion for standards-based solutions that foster customer value. She chairs the eHealth Ontario Architecture and Standards Business and Technical Ontario Health Digital Health Interoperability Standards Committee advancing Ontario’s application of health informatics and interoperability standards. Sue is an author, mentor to HIM/HI students, guest lecturer, and recipient of the Infoway (Individual) Standards Collaborative Peer Award – Fall 2010has awards from Canada Health Infoway and the Canadian Health Information Management Association.
Timothy Wood, RN, BScN, MScN (in progress)
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