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Awards recognize excellence in health informatics

June 21, 2017


Mark FarrowTORONTO – The annual Canadian Healthcare Informatics Awards were presented during the eHealth 2017 Conference and Trade Show earlier this month. The awards are presented by COACH and ITAC Health – they recognize excellence, leadership and innovation in Canada’s health informatics sector.

This year’s winners were:

Innovation in Adoption of Health Informatics Award
Mark Farrow (pictured), VP & chief information officer, Hamilton Health Sciences. Hamilton Early Warning Score Project (HEWS). The Hamilton Early Warning System is a set of technologies, processes and communications protocols designed to identify and respond to life-threatening changes in the vital signs of hospital inpatients. It has dramatically lowered the number of Code Blue alerts in the hospital.

Steven Huesing Scholarship
Janessa Griffith, MSc., Institute of Medical Science and Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care

The Canadian Nurses Foundation Dr. Kathryn J Hannah Nursing Informatics Scholarship
Guillaume Fontaine, Graduate student and registered nurse at Montreal Heart Institute

Emerging Leader in Health Informatics Award
Jennifer Gillert, MSc, CPHIMS-CA, Senior Business Systems Analyst, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)

Project Implementation Team Award
Health Report Manager (HRM) Project Team, OntarioMD, Connecting South West Ontario Program, Orion Health and Certified EMR Vendors

Innovation and Care Delivery Team Award
Provincial eConsult Initiative Project Team, OntarioMD, Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), eHealth Ontario, QHR Technologies, Oscar EMR and KIA Innovations

Patient Care Innovation Team Award
MyGrief.ca Project Team, Canadian Virtual Hospice and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Clinician Leadership Award
Dr. Darren Larsen, Chief Medical Information Officer, OntarioMD

Corporate Citizenship Award
Healthtech Consultants

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