Digital Health Virtual Symposium 2026 Overview

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Take Back YOUR Time

Optimize your digital health tech with practical sessions and actionable tips

  • Demonstrate the ability to access and interpret patient information using digital tools to support timely and effective clinical decision-making.
  • Develop strategies to communicate and collaborate efficiently with other healthcare professionals using digital platforms.
  • Integrate provincially certified EMRs and other digital health tools to enhance patient care, practice efficiency and professional satisfaction.
  • Apply digital tools and techniques to optimize billing practices and administrative workflows.

8:30 to 8:45 a.m.

Opening Remarks – Robert Fox, CEO, OntarioMD and Zainab Abdurrahman, MD, President, Ontario Medical Association 

8:45 to 9:30 a.m.

Keynote Address — Darren Larsen, MD, Family Physician and Influential Leader in health system transformation and digital health across Canada.

Break: 9:30 to 9:45 a.m.

9:45 to 10:15 a.m.

Stream 1

When Your Right Hand Leaves: Using a Staff-Centred Toolbar for Continuity 

Stream 2

Beyond AI Scribes: How to Finish Your Workday on Time

Stream 3

Emerging Medico-legal and Privacy Issues: Ask a Lawyer, Regulator and Futurist 

Break: 10:15 to 10:25 a.m.

10:25 to 10:55 a.m.

Stream 1

Plant the SEED to Reduce Administrative Burden 

Stream 2

Enhancing EMR Efficiency for Specialists Using AI-Assisted Referral Summaries 

Stream 3

Stop Chasing Information: Let It Come to You

Break: 10:55 to 11:05 a.m.

11:05 to 11:35 a.m.

Stream 1

The Power of the Front Desk: How Optimized Team Workflows Save Physician Time

Stream 2

Efficient use of AI Scribe in the Geriatric Population 

Stream 3

CERTIFIED or STRANDED: Why OMD Certification is more than just EMRs

Lunch break: 11:35 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.

12:50 to 1:35 p.m.

Practical AI in the Clinic: What We Actually Use 

Break: 1:35 to 1:45 p.m.

1:45 to 2:30 p.m.

Hospital Information System (HIS) vs Electronic Medical Record (EMR) : What Problem Are We Really Trying to Solve?  

Break: 2:30 to 2:40 p.m.

2:40 to 3:30 p.m.

TBA

3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks – Chandi Chandrasena, MD CCFP FCFP, Chief Medical Officer, OntarioMD

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