Interactive Roundtable Discussion Topics
Topic #1
Connecting Patients to “Virtual” Physicians
- Enabling physician access and engagement to integrated platforms, and easing direct communication mechanisms between doctors and internal departments
- Exploring further developments for virtual care, remote patient monitoring and electronic quality of health initiatives and health systems
Topic #2
Population Health: Leveraging Data and Analytic Capabilities for Preventive Care
- Understanding the use and power of data and leveraging advancements in technology and analytic capabilities to change how care is delivered. What are the challenges and opportunities in front of us?
- Understanding patient populations through data to proactively engage and deliver local care interventions that reduce inequities and start to bend the curve towards value-based care delivery models
- Establishing a social license and a framework for accountability to health outcomes – what are the key drivers and barriers towards value-based care?
Topic #3
Information Governance and Privacy Protection—Benchmarking and Standardizing
- Addressing information accountability, integrity and interoperability concerns
- Considering the relationship data owners, health information custodians and the solution providers—where is the intersection among all three stakeholders? What is the extent of patient privacy?
Eric Sutherland
(Acting) Director Information Management Strategy and Policy
Ontario Ministry of Health & Long Term Care
IRT Co-Moderator:
Topic #4
Harnessing Data and AI Tools to Foster Predictive Analyses of Healthcare
- Pre-requisites and corresponding impacts and challenges of implementing machine learning
- Understanding the data standards, specifications and accountability for information exchange and storage
Topic #5
Looping in on Patient Portals to Promote Efficiency and Accessibility
- Streamlining all patient data, ranging from clinical support to acute care systems, into one platform for all patients and physicians to access
- Protecting patient identities and maintaining access technologies