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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. She has contributed to the development and review of ISO and HL7 standards, has been participant in the TC 215 Mirror Committee for 9 years and is a champion for standards-based solutions that foster customer value. She chairs the Ontario Health Digital Health Interoperability Standards Committee advancing Ontario’s application of health informatics and interoperability standards. Sue is an author, mentor, lecturer, and has awards from Canada Health Infoway and the Canadian Health Information Management Association.
Raymond Simkus, MD
Dr. Raymond Simkus is a primary care physician and has been in practice for over 40 years. He has been involved with EMR development since the first personal computers became available. Raymond has been involved with the early development of numerous EMR applications. With a vision of how powerful tool a computer could be, he started participating at international conferences since 1983 related to medical informatics. He had opportunities to meet many of the pioneers in this field. He has been a member of various international committees and organizations including HL7, ISO, the WICC working group of Wonca. Raymond has participated in numerous Infoway projects and introduced the CEO of Infoway to SNOMED. He was the Canadian representative to the initial Content Committee of SNOMED International. He has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria School of Information Science and presented papers at national and international conferences. He was also active at the provincial level. Raymond helped set the preliminary requirements for EMRs in British Columbia. More recently he was a key participant in developing a comprehensive subset SNOMED with mapping to ICD-9, ICD-10. Raymond’s primary interest has been in pushing for development of high-performance systems that would enhance the capability of clinicians. To achieve this, he has been pushing for end to end interoperability and sophisticated user interfaces that obviously need a solid foundation based on terminology and a well thought out information model. He is currently working with two start up companies that are using machine learning approaches to provide symptom-based diagnoses and for modeling a personal health record.
Timothy Wood, RN, BScN, MScN (in progress)
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