Registration now open for new courses from NIHI

WATERLOO, Ont. – Registration is now open for the new courses being offered by The National Institutes of Health Informatics. Designed to bring healthcare managers up-to-date on the latest developments, you can now register for the course, Learn how the Canadian and U.S. Health Systems Work, along with courses on Effective Dashboards, Cybersecurity Management, and Pragmatic Quality & Regulatory Approaches for Medical Devices. The early bird rate ends March 17!

Understanding the Healthcare System in Canada and the US
10 Sessions, in 9 weeks
Live, Interactive, Online via Webex
Weekly, April 25 – June 20, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET

The purpose of this course is to explain the complexity and intricacies of the Canadian and US healthcare systems. We will focus on an overview of the healthcare systems looking at healthcare facilities (type, governance, accreditation – from the family physician, to ambulatory care, to acute hospital care, and long-term care), personnel, funding, and legislation and laws pertaining to health system operations (including federal and provincial/territorial responsibilities, the Canada Health Act and selected provincial legislation). The status of the roll-out of a pan-Canadian ehealth record, patient portals, two way communication, advances in telehealth and connected health, mobile health applications and Innovation in health care, Health Canada and FDA approval process and procurement.

Competencies Achieved Upon Completion of Course

Participants will be able to:

• Describe and discuss the current structure and function of the Canadian and US healthcare systems.
• Understand several of the major issues facing the modern health care system with regard to health technologies and drugs (development, regulation, and use), the rollout of the electronic health record and the use and regulation of mobile technologies.
• Assess the population health indicators and health status for a city/province or region.
• Critically compare and contrast the two health systems in the areas presented in the course.

Your instructor:
Dr.Candace Gibson, PhD, CHIM, Assistant Dean, BMSUE, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University; Director, Center for Collaborative Command and Leadership, CMU & Western University; Instructor, NIHI.

Dr. Gibson served as the chair and past-chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA), and is recognized as one of the pioneers of Canadian e-learning, health informatics education, and as an editor and author of the first Canadian text book on health information management and recently of the Canadian guidelines for the health information management lifecycle. Dr. Gibson has been the recipient of numerous provincial and national research grants, and also of several awards recognizing her outstanding achievement as a university educator, the recipient of the AFMC-Infoway eHealth Award in 2013, and CHIMA’s Tribute to Excellence Award in 2016. She is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications in experimental neuroscience and health informatics.

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Pragmatic Quality & Regulatory Approaches for Medical Devices
8 Sessions, 8 Hours.
Live. Interactive. Online via Webex
Weekly, April 21 – June 16, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
No Session May 5, 2023

Health Care is a growing area of business, and new medical device and system innovations are emerging. The regulations and standards in the area of medical devices are trying to keep up with product innovations but are written with hardware concepts in mind. It is up to the quality and regulatory representatives of an organization to understand and apply the regulations and standards to their products. There are some key ways of approaching this area of quality and regulatory in medical devices with a pragmatic mindset and flexible way of thinking that can save time and effort.

Competencies Achieved Upon Completion of Course

Participants will be able to:

• Identify a Regulatory Strategy for an existing or new product.
• Create an outline of a Quality Management System for Hardware and/or Software Products.
• Apply best practices on a pragmatic approach to Regulations and Standards.

Your instructor:
Christie Eby, Director, Process Excellence, Quality Regulatory, Intellijoint Surgical; Instructor, NIHI.

Christie Eby brings over 20 years of experience in the health IT field, in the areas of: Medical Device Regulatory, Quality Systems, Change Management, Process Improvement, Facilitation, Software Development and HR. Christie has recently joined Intellijoint Surgical as Director, Process Excellence, Quality Regulatory. For the previous 10 years she was part of the management team at Client Outlook Inc., purchased by Mach7 Technologies in July 2020.

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Cybersecurity Management
10 Sessions Recorded
3 Live. Interactive. Online via Webex
Live Session Dates: May 1, May 15, June 5 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET

Public and private sector organizations in Canada and around the world are under increasing pressure to protect themselves, sensitive information, client information and critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. Threats to information system assets come from state actors, organized crime and hacktivists who now routinely attack our electoral, financial, healthcare and public utility systems.

The purpose of this program is to provide practical cyber cybersecurity management strategies and recommendations to help minimize the occurrence or impact of cyber-related losses. Our focus is on risk management – identification, management and mitigation of risks – and how to use the various tools and resources to build awareness and cyber resilience.

Competencies Achieved Upon Completion of Course

Participants will be able to:

• Create a basic cybersecurity policy framework.
• Create a cybersecurity threat model.
• Design a cybersecurity breach management protocol.

Your Instructors:
Brendan Seaton, CISSP, CIPP/C, CRISC, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Privacy Horizon Inc.; Privacy By Design Ambassador; Past President, ITAC Health; NIHI Instructor.

Brendan Seaton is one of Canada’s leading experts and innovators in the management of eHealth risks, including privacy, security, safety, project and business risk. He has more than 30 years experience in health service administration, information system project management and information privacy and security in both the public and private sectors. He has been a leader in the development of health IT standards, particularly in the areas of security and privacy. He has held senior management and executive level positions in Veterans Affairs Canada, Ontario Blue Cross, and the Ontario Smart Systems for Health Agency.

Patrick Lo , CISSP, CIPP/C, CEO, Privacy Horizon Inc.; NIHI Instructor.

Patrick Lo has 20+ years of experience in the field of information privacy. He has held a number of executive positions in the public and private sectors focused on the development and implementation of privacy and data protection programs.

Patrick is currently the CEO of Privacy Horizon. He is responsible for developing the Company’s PHI Framework (product) and strategic roadmap for providing privacy compliance expertise and practical solutions to large and small healthcare IT companies.

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Development of Effective Dashboards for Health Care
10 Sessions, 10 Hours
Live, Interactive, Online via Webex
Weekly, April 19 – June 21, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Healthcare organizations are rich in data. The development of effective data visualization tools empowers healthcare leaders to make data-driven decisions. Adopting interactive and user-friendly dashboards facilitates the interpretation of data to gain insights to benefit the organization’s performance. This course will outline a practical approach to developing and adopting dashboards healthcare leaders will want to use.

Competencies Achieved Upon Completion of Course

Participants will be able to:

• Explore best practices for dashboard development and techniques to facilitate adoption of analytics tools by healthcare leaders.
• Identify how to lead analytics teams to optimize their dashboard development processes.
• Explain how agile project management can be used to develop effective dashboards.

Your instructor:
Ahmad Chamy, BSc, MHA, Founder, D Cubed Analytics; Business Intelligence Analyst, Provincial Health Services Authority; Power BI Instructor, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Instructor, NIHI.

Ahmad is the Founder of D Cubed Analytics, a boutique healthcare analytics firm based in Vancouver. Ahmad leads a team of Business Intelligence Consultants who provide technical expertise and dashboard development services to public & private healthcare organizations across Canada. He has taught effective dashboard development in corporate and academic settings for a number of years. He is passionate about educating healthcare professionals on how to build dashboards that help translate data into better decision making.

Registration and more information.