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Co-Chairs: Graeme Foster (GEF Consulting) and Kevin McConomy (Infosys)

Mandate:

To promote investment in health ICT and represent the interests of the Canadian health ICT industry to government, key decision makers and opinion leaders.

• Execute on specific advocacy activities to promote the interest of the broader membership aligned to the priorities identified in the strategic plan.
• Meet one-on-one with Ministers of Health (Federal and Provincial) to promote investment in health ICT.
• Support the provincial Ministers of Health through collaboration and information sharing with other Ministers, government officials, decision-makers and opinion leaders to promote Technation Health’s priorities.
• Open up channels for dialogue between senior public servants, decision-makers in the broader health sector (e.g. regional CEO’s and CIO’s), opinion leaders (e.g. medical and hospital associations), and the Health ICT industry
• Organize opportunities for the membership to engage directly with key decision makers and politicians (e.g. Queen’s Park Days, Provincial eHealth Briefings etc.)

Objectives:

• Effectively influence public policy:
  • Deliver ‘Queen’s Park Day’ style events in BC, AB and ON – others
  • Target advocacy work on advancing the adoption of TECHNATION Health’s priority innovative technologies:
    1. Virtual Care
    2. Cloud Computing
    3. Advanced Analytics/AI/ML
    4. Consumer Health
    5. IOT/Mobility
  • Create TECHNATION Health positions on each of the five areas. Positions could over areas such as: patient/provider/system benefits, ROI, facts/myths, practical steps, blockers, recommendations etc.
  • Identify policy blockers and barriers and address at political and senior decision-making levels.

• Improve public & private sector procurement:
  • Continued work of the Procurement Task Force to collaborate with the Public Sector to seek methods of procurement innovation.
  • Develop TECHNATION Health positions on large-scale EMR refresh strategies and procurement – having a large scale view point
  • Collaboration with Advocacy committee to elevate the procurement conversation to political layers.

Measurement:

• Identify influence plan (metric: documented strategy)
• Execute on stated influence activity (metrics: # of sr.-level meetings, completion of “Queen’s Park Days”)
• Creation of position papers (metrics: # of papers)
• Influence outcomes – when possible to report on the how the activities of the committee actually moved the needle on policy decisions

Co-Chairs: Joy Ardanaz (CGI) and Allie Anderson (MEDITECH)

Mandate

• Influence Procurement & Policy: Develop policy recommendations to shape Canadian healthcare system interoperability standards and socialize them with federal, provincial, and territorial agencies/ministries to influence procurement
• Unified Industry Voice: Act as a unified advisory body and expert voice for policy makers, government bodies, regional health authorities, and standards
• Vendor Knowledge & Alignment: Assist the Canadian health-tech vendor community in remaining agile and knowledgeable regarding evolving international and domestic interoperability standards, architectures, and
• Skills Exchange: Foster expertise across members and the broader digital health and informatics
• Issue Resolution: Formulate clear industry positions on technical, regulatory, and policy barriers—such as data blocking and fragmented regional standards—and establish roadmap solutions.
• Level Playing Field: Advocate for national functionality standards, privacy and security frameworks, and independent certification processes to ensure fair competition rooted in quality
• Secure Information Exchange: Accelerate seamless, secure patient health data sharing across systems and jurisdictions, aligned with patient/physician consent and national health data strategy
• Global Market Readiness: Align Canadian interoperability profiles with international benchmarks (e.g., US Core/ONC and EU standards) to enable Canadian tech firms to scale globally.

Priority Focus Areas & Objectives

• Shape National ICT Standards: Follow through on national health IT survey findings and position papers to advance national standard, eliminating provincial variation, making National standards more robust.
• Incorporate Next-Gen Technologies: Drive strategies around emerging tech (e.g., AI scribes, LLMs, and natural language processing) to solve “last-mile” data entry and coding
• Expand Reach & Partnerships: Grow committee membership and deepen active collaborations with external standards bodies (e.g., HL7 Canada, Canada Health Infoway) and digital health alliances.
• Target Strategic Health Domains: Focus on key priority areas including consumer health data access, medical device integration, personalized/precision medicine, credentialing, and patient

Measurement & Key Performance Indicators

• Strategy & Planning: Documented strategy defining annual ISC priorities and
• Industry Engagement: Quantity and quality of hosted roundtables, working groups, and stakeholder consultation
• Thought Leadership: Number of position papers, white papers, and policy submission responses
• Policy Impact: Measured reporting on how committee recommendations directly influence federal/provincial health-tech RFPs, legislation, and national interoperability frameworks.