National Institute on Nursing Informatics

National Institute on Nursing Informatics

January 2014
(tentative date)

One-day course

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Program

Course Description

The 2nd National Institute on Nursing Informatics is a unique educational opportunity for nurses interested in learning more about nursing informatics and applications in practice. This year, the institute will be preceded by 5 webinars which will provide the participants with the theoretical foundations of nursing informatics. The 3 day on site Institute will be held in Toronto and will focus on key issues and challenges related to informatics within practice, administration, and education. Specific topic areas will include: clinical data standards, health system use of data and information, consumer informatics, clinical decision support, clinician engagement, organizational change management, informatics competencies for the health professions, human factors, the protection of personal health information, and the use of social media in healthcare and education.

The institute will be led by Dr. Lynn Nagle, a national leader in nursing informatics, and supported by expert guest faculty from across Canada. Participants will benefit from the extensive practical, academic, and research knowledge and experience of the faculty who will teach in the Institute.

The curriculum will cover a broad range of topics with content being delivered through a combination of didactic webinars, facilitated group discussions and interactive panel presentations. The Institute will further advance attendees ability to apply theoretical concepts with the support of expert faculty led discussions and demonstrations of practical experiences and lessons learned. Participants will be equipped with sufficient foundational knowledge to be able to effectively participate in informatics related operational and educational discussions and activities in their work settings.

Audience

The program will be of particular interest to nurses currently working in nursing informatics; nurse leaders who wish to broaden their knowledge and understanding of nursing informatics; nurse educators who are responsible for the integration of informatics into entry level nursing; as well as nurses considering a future career in informatics.

Throughout the 3 day institute, participants will have the opportunity to interact and network with other attendees. Attendees will receive a certificate of completion.

Book early to secure your spot, as registration will be limited to ensure a focused experience for learners.

Date and Time:

February 22, 2013 (8:30-4:30)
February 23, 2013 (8:30-4:30)
February 24, 2013 (8:30-12:00)

Course Location:

Health Sciences Building
University of Toronto
155 College St
Toronto, ON, M5T 1P8 (map)

This educational initiative is endorsed by the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association.
Organizing faculty

Institute Program Director
- Lynn M. Nagle
Course Faculty
Institute Program Director

Lynn M. Nagle RN, PhD

Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

On faculty at the University of Toronto, Dr. Nagle teaches informatics courses in graduate programs in nursing, health administration, and health informatics. In addition to her own informatics consulting practice, Nagle & Associates Inc., she is a Strategic Advisor for eHealth and Director in the Health Services Practice at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP. She is Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership and the current Canadian representative to IMIA-NI. Known internationally for her work in clinical informatics, she has many publications and presentations to her credit. Dr. Nagle has been recognized for her national contributions to nursing and health informatics as the recipient of Canada’s Health Informatics Organization (COACH) inaugural Leadership award in 2005, the University of Rochester’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005, and the Canadian Nurses Association’s Centennial Award in 2008.

Course Faculty

Richard Booth RN, MScN, PhD(c)

Lecturer, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Richard Booth is a doctoral candidate and lecturer at Western University studying clinician learning and adoption of health technology. He works clinically as a psychiatric-mental health nurse in the adult psychosis program at St. Joseph’s Health Care London. In the past, he has acted as a consultant on various health informatics projects for both educational institutions and healthcare organizations. His research interests include nursing education, socio-technical perspectives, social media, and health informatics.

Mark Casselman, MSc

Director, mHealth, PwC Canada, Toronto, Canada

Mr. Casselman is Director of mHealth, Healthcare Advisory Practice at PwC Canada. His work focuses on using mobile health technology to deliver care anywhere and provide value for consumers, providers, and payors. Mr. Casselman has a decade of experience working with executives and clinical leaders across multiple sectors and agencies within the Canadian health ecosystem. He has led strategic engagements, large-scale transformation initiatives, and has been recognized as an innovator in the field of digital health.
Prior to joining PwC, Mr. Casselman was Senior Project Manager at University Health Network. He led multi-disciplinary teams that implemented innovative technology and care models to enhance healthcare service delivery at the organizational, regional, and provincial level.

Mr. Casselman holds a Masters of Science Degree and a Bachelor of Arts (Kinesiology) from the University of Western Ontario. He has completed work towards a PhD in eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto. Mr. Casselman was a professor of Health Promotion at Humber College in Toronto. He is a frequent speaker and author on digital health innovation and the use of technology to enhance consumer health.

Peter Catford MBA

Adjunct Faculty, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Mr. Catford has been a leader in information systems consulting, development and management for thirty-five years. He is adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto and is the Chair of Ontario’s Health Informatics Standards Council. He completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business in London Ontario. Previously, he was the Vice President of Information Management at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and more recently as President and CEO of Hinext he has concentrated in the development, marketing and implementation of the TREAT clinical documentation system, which is in use in many hospitals health provider agencies and facilities across North America.

Maureen M. Charlebois RN, BScN, MHSc, CHE

Chief Nursing Executive & Group Director, Clinical Adoption, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, Canada

Ms. Charlebois provides national leadership to facilitate clinical engagement, advance best practices in the clinician adoption of electronic health information solutions and support the measurement and realization of benefits through an integrated approach to change management, adoption, knowledge translation and benefits evaluation. Ms. Charlebois has held a number of senior leadership positions in Acute Care, Community Care, Long-Term Care and with the Ontario Ministry of Health, Continuing Care eHealth division. She served as a surveyor with the Canadian Council of Health Services Accreditation for six years and is a past board member of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives Toronto GTA Chapter. She currently serves as a Board member on Canada’s Health Informatics Association and the Canadian Virtual Health Library.

Leanne M. Currie RN, DNSc

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dr. Currie conducts research in the area of patient and clinician information seeking and decision making in the context of patient safety including fall and injury prevention in acute care and mental health settings, wound management, antibiotic prescribing and telehealth, She focuses on sociotechnical systems, decision support and visual analytics for user interface design. She teaches informatics and research methods including evidence-based practice and information literacy.

Lorie Donelle RN, PhD

Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Donelle is also jointly appointed to the School of Nursing and the School of Health Studies. Dr. Donelle focuses her teaching and research interests on health promotion, health literacy, and the use of information technology within healthcare. Dr. Donelle’s research explores the concept of health literacy and its influence on consumer health. Paralleling this is her interest in eHealth, which explores the relationship between information technology, (e.g. Internet, electronic health record, personal health record), and consumer health practices. Previous research projects have included: (1) an assessment of health literacy and consumer understanding of online health information, (2) assessment of online social network sites in promoting health among ethnically diverse and marginalized populations, and (3) investigation of health literacy and individuals with chronic disease.

Helen Edwards RN, BA, MN

Director, Clinical Informatics and Technology Assisted Programs, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Canada

Ms. Edwards has worked at SickKids for more than 30 years, in a variety of roles and describes the focus of her current role as influencing and driving the technological transformation within the hospital – ensuring that clinical and corporate computer applications as well as medical device technologies support and reflect the practices and workflows. In addition she is the senior director over the Ontario Poison Centre, Motherisk, Telemedicine and Telepsychiatry programs that provide access to specialty care to remote locations through the use of a variety of technologies.

Kathryn Hannah RN, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Utah, USA
Professor, Clinical Medicine, American University of Antigua, Antigua, West Indies

Dr. Hannah is a nurse and a senior health informatics consultant specializing in information management in health environments. With over 30 years of experience in academia, health care delivery, government and the private sector, Dr. Hannah has a rich depth of knowledge and experience in health care delivery organizations, the health system and in nursing. She also has extensive experience in knowledge transfer and change management as a consultant, workshop leader and an educator. Dr. Hannah is the author of several textbooks and numerous articles on computers in health care and health informatics. In November 2008, The Canadian Nurses Association awarded Dr. Hannah the prestigious Centennial Award, in recognition of her pioneering leadership in promoting the involvement of nurses in the development and use of information systems in health care.

Lianne Jeffs RN, PhD

Director Nursing Research, Scientist, Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada

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Margie Kennedy BScN, MN, PhD, CPHIMS-CA

Acting Atlantic Branch Manager, Senior Consultant & Clinical SME, Global Village Consulting Inc., Nova Scotia, Canada
Principal, Kennedy Health Informatics

Dr. Kennedy is an educator, consultant, and nursing informatician. She is a recognized expert in ICNP and led the mapping of the C-HOBIC Data Standard into ICNP and SNOMED CT. Additionally, she is the President of the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association, and serves as the CNA Representative to the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Health Care Technology and Systems (SSC Z250). She is a member of the COACH eSafety Task Force, CPHIMS-CA Exam Committee, COACH Health Informatics Professional Competencies Review Committee, and Co-Chair of the TIGER Initiative Foundation International Committee.

Laurie Poole, RN, BScN, MHSA

Vice President, Telemedicine Solutions, Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), Toronto, Canada

Ms. Poole is the Vice President, Telemedicine Solutions at the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN). She has worked in the field of telehealth for 15 years and has provided leadership and oversight for a number of innovative telehealth programs in Canada. In addition to her responsibilities for OTN’s Emergency Services and Teleophthalmology programs, Laurie is currently overseeing the implementation of a provincial Telehomecare program expansion modeled on OTN’s successful phase one pilot. A registered nurse with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and a Master’s Degree in Health Services Administration, Laurie is also the Past President of the Canadian Society of Telehealth (CST). She is a recognized expert in her field and is frequently invited to speak to graduate students in the Nursing and Health Informatics programs at the University of Toronto.

Sally Remus RN, BScN MScN

Director, Health Informatics & Practice at Mackenzie Health, Richmond Hill, Canada

Ms. Remus is an accomplished healthcare executive with diversified experience in private business, health service organizations and government. She is a successful nursing leader in informatics and operations management who mentors new staff/students and directs project teams through large, complex EHR clinical transformation initiatives. Currently, Sally is the Director, Health Informatics & Practice at Mackenzie Health where she is the informatics lead for planning the new Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital with a focus on clinical care re-design. Sally holds appointments to the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing – University of Toronto as an adjunct lecturer and Canada Health Infoway’s Standards Collaborative Coordinating Committee and the Clinical Adoption Nursing Reference Group.

Diane Salois-Swallow RN, BScN, MEd

Chief Information Officer, Mackenzie Health and Southlake Regional Health Centre/Stevenson Memorial Hospital, Richmond Hill and Newmarket, Canada

Ms. Salois- Swallow is responsible for Information and Communications Technology at York Central Hospital and Southlake Regional Health Centre/Stevenson Memorial Hospital. Ms. Salois-Swallow received her BScN from Universite de Sherbrooke, and obtained her Masters in Education from University of Victoria.

Patricia Trbovich PhD

Academic Research Lead, HumanEra Team, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Assistant Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
Assistant Professor, Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Dr. Trbovich is the Research Lead within the HumanEra Team at the University Health Network. She is Assistant Professor of Clinical Engineering in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and of Health Informatics in the Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Her areas of expertise include human factors engineering and patient safety. Her current research focus includes improving patient safety in outpatient chemotherapy environments, assessing the risks associated with intravenous medication administration, and providers’ compliance with evidence-based guidelines. She has also conducted extensive research on Mitigation of Interruptions on Delivery of High-Risk Medical Procedures.

Peggy White RN MN

Operations Lead for Health outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC) Program, Toronto, Canada

Ms White has an extensive background as a health care leader in the acute care sector. The HOBIC initiative is implementing the electronic collection of standardized nursing information across Ontario for abstraction onto a provincial database. Peggy is the Project Director for C-HOBIC, a Canada Health Infoway funded initiative that is building on the work of HOBIC, to foster nursing uptake of EHRs by providing content in the EHR that adds value to nursing practice.
Program

Printable PDF – Informatics Program, February 22-24, 2013 – updated February 6, 2013

Registration Details

Fees

Early Bird price (ends February 1, 2013)	$999 + HST
Regular price (starting February 2, 2013)	$1,100 + HST
U of T Nursing Alumni save 15%*	$935 + HST
Current U of T Nursing students save 64%**	$400 + HST
U of T Nursing Adjunct and Status Faculty save 15%***	$935 + HST

Site Groups

A group discount rate is available for site groups of three or more people. Deadline December 14, 2012. For details please contact pd.nursing@utoronto.ca.

Please Note

Registration is limited.
Advanced registration is required. You must register by Friday, February 15, 2013. No on-site registration at the event.
*U of T Nursing Alumni discount is available to participants who hold a BScN, MN, PMNP Diploma, MScN or PhD from the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.
**Current U of T Nursing student discount is available to participants who are enrolled in the BScN, MN, PMNP Diploma or PhD program at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.
***U of T Nursing Faculty discount is available to participants who hold a current faculty position, a clinical instructor position, an adjunct appointment or a status appointment to the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
This is an integrated three-day course with access to pre-course webinars. One-day registrations are not available.
Applicable taxes (13% HST) will be added to the registration fees.
Refunds (less a $50 administration fee) are available if requested by December 21, 2012. Participant substitutions are possible with advance notification.

Payment method options

Individuals

You have two payment options if you are an individual registering for this course:

Site Groups

If you are registering on behalf of a site group of three or more people and want to take advantage of the special discounted price please contact pd.nursing@utoronto.ca. Group rate deadline December 14, 2012.

Credit Card:

You can register and pay online with a credit card.

Certified cheque or money order:

You can register and pay by mail.

Step 1:

Type your information onto the online form and then print the page (i.e. don’t click “Confirmation and Payment”. Don’t pay by online credit card).

Step 2:

Obtain a certified cheque or money order payable to “University of Toronto” for the registration fee plus 13% HST. No personal cheques. No debit cards.

Fees (including HST)

Early Bird price (ends February 1, 2013)	$1,128.87
Regular price (starting February 2, 2013)	$1,243.00
Current U of T Nursing students save 64%*	$452.00
U of T Nursing Alumni save 15%**	$1,056.55
U of T Nursing Adjunct and Status Faculty save 15%***	$1,056.55

Step 3:

Mail the paper registration form with payment (no personal cheques, no cash, no credit cards, no debit cards) to:

Centre for Professional Development
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
University of Toronto
Suite 130, 155 College Street,
Toronto, ON M5T 1P8

Step 4:

When we receive your registration form we will email a confirmation notice.

Please Note

Registration is limited.
Advanced registration is required. You must register by Friday, February 15, 2013. No on-site registration at the event.
*Current U of T Nursing student discount is available to participants who are enrolled in the BScN, MN, PMNP Diploma or PhD program at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.
**U of T Nursing Alumni discount is available to participants who hold a BScN, MN, PMNP Diploma, MScN or PhD from the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.
***U of T Nursing Faculty discount is available to participants who hold a current faculty position, a clinical instructor position, an adjunct appointment or a status appointment to the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
This is an integrated three-day course with access to pre-course webinars. One-day registrations are not available.
Applicable taxes (13% HST) will be added to the registration fees.
Refunds (less a $50 administration fee) are available if requested by December 21, 2012. Participant substitutions are possible with advance notification.

Hotels

Informatics Hotel List and Map 2013 - Map shows the location of the hotels relative to the course venue.