VANCOUVER – The Canadian Health Informatics Awards Gala (CHIA) shone the light on the leaders, innovators and visionaries who are reimagining healthcare delivery in Canada.

The success stories ranged from a leader who has been instrumental in building a high-quality workforce in Canadian health informatics, to a telehealth project that is supporting a virtual care network for 45 First Nations communities in British Columbia.

2016 CHIA Winners:

Clinician Leadership

Dr. Kendall Ho (pictured)

Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia

Corporate Citizenship

Gevity Consulting Inc.

Emerging Leader in Health Informatics

Lauren Bell

Team Lead, eHealth Strategy and Investment Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Excellence in Canadian Telehealth

British Columbia First Nations Telehealth Expansion Project

Innovation in the Adoption of Health Informatics

Jodi Glassford

Director, Closed Loop Referral Management, Access Improvement, Alberta Health Services

Project: eReferral Vendor: Orion Health

Dr. Kathryn J. Hannah Nursing Informatics Scholarship

Gillian Strudwick

PhD Candidate, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Leadership in the Field of Health Informatics

Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, PhD

Director of Health Informatics & Professor of Computer Science and Medicine, Dalhousie University

Project Team – Implementation Award

Good Samaritan Society – Corporate Office (Edmonton), MEDITECH and Healthtech Consultants

Financial System Implementation Project

Project Team – Innovation and Care Delivery

Alberta Health Services, Alberta Health, Canadian Institute for Health Information, First Nations Alberta Technical Services Advisory Group, interRAI and Momentum Healthware

Care Planning Tools Changing Practice Among Alberta First Nations Communities Project

Steven Huesing Scholarship

Gurprit Randhawa

PhD Candidate in Health Informatics, University of Victoria

COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association and ITAC Health co-host the CHIA Gala and Awards program. An impartial Adjudication Committee, comprised of leaders in the HI profession, evaluates all nominations and scholarship applications and chooses the award recipient(s). The Gala was held as part of the e-Health 2016 Conference.