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Informatics Interest Group
End is to improve care.
Health Informatics is not an end in itself!
Group Goal
The goal of this project is to form an Informatics interest group that will be primarily
concerned with discussion, education and mutual support to:
¾ Bring together healthcare professionals , medical researchers and educators and
information professionals
¾ Focus on Health Informatics as a tool to improve the effectiveness of Health
professionals
¾ Focus on the relevance of health informatics to improve care of individual
patients and groups of patients
¾ Promotion of research and development of health and medical informatics in
healthcare, education and related industrial sectors
¾ Discuss Information systems that are in use or a requirement for medical/health
¾ System analysis, design, management and implementation especially in field of
medicine and medical education
¾ Dissemination and exchange of information and ideas
Group Objective
The group objective will be to find ways of application of information science
principles, information technology, and communication to medical science and
health care with a focus on improving care.
Operational Goals and Means For Their Achievement
The expected operational goals for the group are:
¾ Explore the scope of medical/health informatics
¾ Develop and asses methods and systems for the acquisition, processing and
interpretation of data related to medicine and health care
¾ Support digitizing information where possible to increase quality and
effectiveness and reduce overall costs of health care and medical education
¾ Evaluate the needs and problems of developing and managing information
systems in the related areas
¾ Improve quality and effectiveness of various processes and services provided by
health and medical institutes
¾ Keep themselves informed about the current and discrete development in the
area of informatics
Informatics Interest Group
Systems of Interest (Scope of Informatics Group Discussions):
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Measurement to improve quality and safety of Health Care
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Simulation as a tool for management in health care
Primary Care Practices
Hospital and Regions
Diagnostic Imaging
Image Processing
Scheduling (clinical as well other)
Laboratory Results
Pharmacy
Education
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Curriculum Management System
Simulation as a Tool for Education
Clinical Learning
E-libraries
Evaluations
Executive/Management
¾ Balanced Score Boarding
¾ Planning and Operations Management
¾ Standards – Hardware, Software and Project Management
Measure of success
As a result of the group activity, information dissemination activities, and service
evaluation by health, medical and informatics professionals/experts, the group will
contribute to a better understanding of the response to the service and show
directions for future developments to the related communities.
Informatics Interest Group
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Dr. Dean Sandham, Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Keith McConnell, Director of Operations, Faculty of Medicine
Aarti Paul, IS Manager, Faculty of Medicine
Ian Fish, Chief Information Officer, e-Health Services, WRHA
Geoff Besko, Deputy CIO & Regional Director, e-Health Services, WRHA
Dr. Michel Tetreault, President and CEO, St. Boniface General Hospital
Dr. Bruce Roe, MD, Executive Director of Clinical Programs and Chief Medical
Officer, St. Boniface General Hospital
Dr. Diamond Kassum, Chief Medical Information Officer, WRHA
Pat Rothney, WRHA Regional Clinical Lead, President - MNIA
Dr. Blake McClarty, Department Head, Dept. of Radiology
Dr. Dan Roberts, Department Head, Dept. of Internal Medicine
Dr. Bryan Magwood, Assoc. Dean UGME, Faculty of Medicine
Dr. John Wilkins, Professor, Biochem/Med Gen/Int. Med/Imm
Dr. Blair Henderson, UGME Program Director, Dept. of Radiology
Dr. Ray Postuma, Professor, Dept. of Surgery
Dr. Mark Torchia, Asst. Professor, Basic Medical Sciences
Dr. Richard Gordon, Professor, Radiology
Ada Ducas, Head, Health Sciences Libraries - Neil J Maclean
Andrea Hodgson, Education Services Librarian, Neil J MacLean Library
Dale Wiebe, Student, Faculty of Medicine
Dinen Subramaniam, Computer Engineer, Independent
Graham Bay, Student, Faculty of Medicine
Gladys Stewart, Undergrad Med Coord, Community Health Sciences
Heather Tabin, Regional Director, Customer Planning & Services e-Health
Services, WRHA
Jason McVikar, Student, Faculty of Medicine
Jesse Shantz, PGY-1, Orthopedic Surgery, Winnipeg
Michael Tennenhouse, Assoc. Librarian, Neil J MacLean Library
Michael Zhang, System Analyst, St. Boniface Hospital & Adjunct Professor,
Department of Business Computing, University of Winnipeg
Richard Walker, Clinical Business Analysis Practice Lead e-Health Services,
WRHA
Stephen Choy, Student, Faculty of Medicine
Informatics Interest Group
For more information contact:
Aarti Paul,
Information Systems Manager, Faculty of Medicine
Ph: (204) 789-3873
E-mail: [email protected]
Vieanna Beck,
Project Assistant, Office of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Ph: (204) 789-3973
E-mail: [email protected]