Healing the System: How our Digital Health Divide is Making us Sick

Canada’s fragmented digital health systems are creating challenges across all levels of care. In this talk, Dr. Ewan Affleck will explore how the way health data is designed and used in Canada is weakening both individual and population health, limiting access to care, and straining the sustainability of the health system. He will discuss the financial and human costs of this fragmentation, how current policies and legislation contribute to the problem, and how data and policy could be reimagined to better support patients and care providers across the country.


Nov. 5, Wednesday, 4 - 7 p.m.


This event will also be presented virtually

In-person

4 p.m. | Doors Open
4:30 - 6 p.m. | Presentation with audience Q&A
6 - 7 p.m. | Reception

Virtual

4:30 - 6 p.m.


Presenter biography

Dr. Ewan Affleck, CM, MDCM, CCFP

Ewan Affleck has worked and lived in northern Canada since 1992. He is currently serving as the Senior Medical Advisor - Health Informatics, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, Strategic Advisor - Clinical and Informatics at the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and Chair of Networked Health - Alberta, a collective focused on optimizing health data design and use. He is the past Chief Medical Information Officer of the Northwest Territories, was co-chair of the national Virtual Care Task Force, served on the Expert Working Group of the pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy, and is the Executive Producer and co-writer of The Unforgotten (2021), an award-winning film about inequities in health service for Indigenous people living in Canada. In 2013, he was appointed to the Order of Canada for his contribution to northern health care.