Leveraging Real-time Data for Real Health Benefits
Webinar with Janet Davidson, Michael Hillmer, Kimberlyn McGrail and David O'Toole
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The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that the data informing scientific evidence was critical in saving lives and preventing serious illness. Moving out of the pandemic, real-time data is still an important part of effective health policy. Please join the C.D. Howe Institute on Tuesday, November 15 to hear an expert panel provide recommendations on how healthcare providers can better leverage real-time data to inform decision-making and improve care.
C.D. Howe Institute events and webinars are open to members and their guests.
Please contact Mitch Tentsos, Senior Event Planner, to register: mtentsos@cdhowe.org.
Janet Davidson, Fellow-in-Residence, C.D. Howe Institute; Chair of the Board, Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Janet Davidson works in health care consulting with a focus on strategy, organization management and design, and governance. Formerly, she served as Deputy Minister of Health for Alberta, CEO of Trillium Health Centre, COO of Vancouver Coastal Health, as well as numerous other leadership positions in a number of Canadian jurisdictions.
Janet has over 40 years of experience in healthcare in the government, voluntary and hospital/community sectors in a number of Canadian jurisdictions and internationally. She recently completed a 5 year term as Board Chair of the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Janet currently holds the positions of Chair of the Board of the Nova Scotia Health Authority and Canada’s New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization. She is also a Board member of Bayshore Healthcare and the Hospital for Sick Children. She is a Senior Fellow with the CD Howe Institute and sits on their health policy council.
Janet received a Bachelor of Nursing Science from the University of Windsor and a Master’s in Health Services Administration from the University of Alberta. She is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors’ Education program at Rotman, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health’s Global Health Leadership program and has an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Windsor. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been named twice to the list of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Women.
Michael Hillmer, Assistant Deputy Minister of the Digital and Analytics Strategy Division, Ministry of Health/Ministry of Long-Term Care
Michael Hillmer is Assistant Deputy Minister of the Digital and Analytics Strategy Division in the Ministry of Health/Ministry of Long-Term Care and has been part of the Ontario Public Service since 2007. In this role, along with the health data and analytics portfolio he also leads the Digital Health and Information Mgmt. Strategy & Policy branches. The Health Data portfolio oversees data collection, integration, and management services to maintain a trusted foundation of high-quality health data. The Health Analytics portfolio generates trusted and actionable insights that improve the sustainability and quality of the healthcare system. The data and digital health portfolio is responsible for setting policy, strategy and investment management directions that help deliver the benefits of digital health to Ontarians and drive responsible use of health data for the public good.Michael is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and his academic background includes graduate degrees from the University of Toronto, and a BSc from Carleton University.
Kimberlyn McGrail, Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Director of Research for UBC Health, and Scientific Director of Population Data BC and Health Data Research Network Canada
Kimberlyn McGrail is a Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Director of Research for UBC Health, and Scientific Director of Population Data BC and Health Data Research Network Canada. Her research interests are quantitative policy evaluation and all aspects of population data science. Kim is Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Population Data Science, the 2009-10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Associate in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2016 recipient of the Cortlandt JG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2017 recipient of a UBC award for Excellence in Clinical or Applied Research, and in 2019-2020 participated as a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Task Force on AI4Health. She holds a PhD in Health Care and Epidemiology from the University of British Columbia, and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan.
David O’Toole, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Institute for Health Information
As CIHI’s President and CEO, David O’Toole leads the organization in identifying the health data and information priorities for Canada’s health care systems, in collaboration with federal, provincial and territorial governments. He has been CEO at CIHI since 2014.
Prior to joining CIHI Mr. O’Toole held several Deputy Minister and Assistant Deputy Minister positions in the Ontario public service, including at Natural Resources, Transportation and the Cabinet Office.
Mr. O’Toole is the Chair of the Centre for Health Innovation at Queen’s University. He is also the past Chair of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre and is an adjunct professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.
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