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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.
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