Sponsored Sessions

8:00 A.M. – 8:30 A.M.

Day 1: September 12, 2024 – Sponsored Session

Join Dr. Yousuf, Head of Service at Hamilton Health Sciences, and Christina Dobsi, Director of Medical Billing at Petal, as they delve into the transformative potential of digital revenue cycle management in healthcare.

Discover how digital solutions can centralize and streamline processes, reduce duplication, and enhance the overall efficiency of healthcare practices for physicians, especially those who work in multiple places or care settings. Gain insights into Petal’s innovative digital revenue cycle management approach, which can integrate scheduling, billing, and other revenue streams into a single, scalable platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to understand how to reduce administrative burdens and maximize revenue through digital transformation.

Presented by:

Haroon Yousuf, MD, Head of Service, Hamilton Health Sciences
Christina Dobsi, Director of Medical Billing, Dobsi, Medical Billing by Petal

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12:45 AM – 1:15 PM

Day 1: September 12, 2024 – Lunch Spotlight Sponsored Session

Investigating Financial Benefits (a look at real balance sheets)
Workflow & Efficiency Improvements (Real statistics)
How PatientSERV Helps

Presented by:

Sandy Wetstein
Adam Stewart, MD
Graham Cornford

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2:20 PM – 3:00 PM

Day 1: September 12, 2024 – Sponsored Session

This session/workshop provides an overview of how to use AI for each part of the family medicine workflow using Pippen, the AI-Powered Physician Assistant.

Objectives:

To explain what AI is and its diverse application to reducing burden in family practice.
To provide a hands-on demonstration of Pippen, the AI-Powered Physician Assistant.
To demonstrate how to get support with the use of AI and how to remain informed about AI developments.

Presented by:

AJ Kadhim-Saleh, MD

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2:20 PM – 3:00 PM

Day 1: September 12, 2024 – Sponsored Session

A review of AI tools to support primary care delivery from disease prediction to disease management and how natural language processing can support identification of social determinants of health.  

Presented by:

Matthew Hackenberg, RN BSN

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2:20 PM – 3:00 PM

Day 1: September 12, 2024 – Sponsored Session

Join Dr. Chandi Chandrasena, OntarioMD’s Chief Medical Officer and Alyssa Bryan, RN, MScN, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) as they share their clinical insights and experiences in developing the health data standards to enable Connected Care and improve patient safety and ensure quality care.

These health data standards are bundled into the Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework that is foundational for Connected Care. It defines and standardizes the essential patient information needed in clinical care, resource management, population health and health system use.

Canada is now poised to advance its digital maturity and make interoperability a reality using a collaborative approach to inform, develop, and enable the work for data content and exchange standardization by including clinicians, jurisdictions, patient partners, Indigenous Peoples and vendors into the development process.

Presented by:

Alyssa Bryan, RN, MScN
Chandi Chandrasena, MD CCFP FCFP

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8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Day 2: September 13, 2024 – Sponsored Session

This session will aim to provide the following:

An overview of the current state of connected care (interoperability) in Canada, combining the real world physician’s perspective with recent Infoway clinician interoperability survey results. Will advances in this area improve physicians’ digital administrative burden?;
An introduction to the CIDH (Centre for Clinical Innovation in Digital Health), spotlighting the Connected Care Innovation Grant and Student/Learner Scholarship program;
An overview of the goals of the Digital Health Interoperability Task Force, a unique partnership with national physician organizations the CMA, CFPC, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC);
An update on e-prescribing: PrescribeIT’s progress in Ontario and across Canada;
A brief snapshot of the pan-Canadian Patient Summary progress, and why it matters to physicians with regard to communication and information sharing for enhanced patient care.

Presented by:

Rashaad Bhyat, MD, Senior Clinical Leader, Connected Care Team, Canada Health Infoway

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12:22 PM – 1:25 PM

Day 2: September 13, 2024 – Sponsored Session

Join this session to learn about how leveraging conversational and generative AI technologies can make clinical documentation a by-product of the patient-physician visit and not a separate, onerous task for the clinician. An eye for responsible change management will ensure that cutting-edge technologies, to elevate the EHR experience and automate administrative tasks, is deployed without introducing operational or data quality risks.

Presented by:

David Bowers, Product Manager, Solventum

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Digital Health Conference

DAY 1: SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

DAY 2: SEPTEMBER 13, 2024