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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.
Eric Sutherland
Eric is a “Data Guy with personality” and Data Strategist with a passion for enabling trusted insight through implementation of leading information management practices and linking enterprise strategy to practical solutions with business, technology, and data partners. He is the head for Secretariat for a pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy which envisions the better use of data for health systems, public health, population health, research, and care. This work is led by the Public Health Agency of Canada in collaboration with all jurisdictions. Previously, Eric worked as Executive Director, Data Governance Strategy at the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and Director, Information Management Strategy and Policy at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He continues to recover from 20 years at a major Financial Institution, with a variety of roles lead data, business, and technology groups across Finance and Risk.
Sarah Wark, MSc, MA
Sarah is a leading Data Analytics and AI professional, Technologist and Futurist, with over 15 years’ experience working with Health Data. Sarah is responsible for leading large Advanced Analytics and AI teams to drive innovative transformational strategies and solutions for health organizations across Canada. As a leader, Sarah actively identifies and facilitates the design and development of sustainable AI within the health sector and provides advisory support to leaders looking to build automation and predictive capabilities. Recent highlights include leading provincial AI initiatives for Ministry of Health BC to enable better data sharing across Health Agencies; supporting the BC COVID-19 response by automating the response to questions from members of the public through development of a provincial intelligent agent; and applying analytics and dynamic data visualizations to monitor vaccine adverse events.
Gordon Wehner
Gord has extensive experience in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs in the medical device industry having worked with both smaller entrepreneurial organizations and larger well-established firms implementing and improving Quality Management Systems and ensuring regulatory compliance. Gord has participated in standards development as part of TC 210 for medical devices and more recently with TC 215 for IEC 62304. He is currently supporting the development of a standard for Test Methods for Medical Devices that utilize AI. Gord also works as an advisor for two business accelerator organizations assisting early stage medical organizations with regulatory and quality strategies towards the goal of commercialization.
Timothy Wood, RN, BScN, MScN (in progress)
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