• Keith Baldrey, Broadcast Journalist, BCTV on Global Television

• Provincial Minister of Health*

• Dave Nikolejsin, CIO Province of British Columbia

Moderator: David Flaherty*, Information Policy Consultant & Principal, David H. Flaherty Inc.

Speakers:

1. Brendan Seaton, President, ITAC Health, Instructor, Waterloo Institute of Health Informatics Research, former Chief Privacy & Security Officer, Ontario Smart Systems for Health Agency
2. Jill Scott, General Legal Counsel & Director Information Access && Privacy Office, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
3. Mal Griffin, CIO Interior Health Authority

Using IT to Unlock the Benefits of Shared Services
Moderator: Myrna Francis, VP, Marketing-Healthcare, CGI

Speakers:

1. Pat Ryan, General Manager, Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Service
2. Chris Sherback, CEO, Ormed Information Systems Ltd.

Real Property and Workplace Shared Services

Speakers:

1. Tririga (Speaker TBC)
2. Wayne Jensen, ADM, Province of British Columbia
3. Barry Pearce*, former Vice President, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
4. BC Hydro (Speaker TBC)

Best Practices in a Government Organization and Information Sharing

Speakers:

1. Jill Kot, Assistant Deputy Minister, Workplace Technology Services, Province of British Columbia
2. David Belof, JRS. Partners Inc, former Ministry of Health, Saskatchewan

Best Practices: Electronic Health Record

Speakers

1. Kate Warriner, Primary Care IM&T Programme Manager for Liverpool PCT
2. Dr. Jude Mahadanaarachchi, Professional Executive Committee, Executive Member, Practice Based Commissioning Consortia, and Lead Clinician, Minor Surgery Service.

Best Practices: Health Care Environment

Speakers:

1. Yves-Laurent Turcotte, Eng., M.Sc., Vice President and Strategic Consultant, Promaintech Novaxa, A division of Fujitsu

Lean Healthcare: A new vision of process optimization leading to significant performance improvement

This presentation will discuss how 'Lean' becomes the success approach to improving the process, the practice, the delay, the performance, the quality and the satisfaction in a hospital and health care environment. Mr. Yves-Laurent Turcotte will introduce us to Lean, Culture and Application. A video of Val D'Or Hospital's case study will be presented.

Best Practices: Using Partnership Strategies to Maximize your Investment in Shared Services

Speakers:

1. Matthew Peters, LLB, Partner, McCarthy Tetrault

IBM, Speaker TBC

Globally, Healthcare organizations are realizing that their back office operations can be leveraged to not only improve operational efficiency, but to also be an enabler for better patient care. Through the efficiency gains and related cost savings from shared operations, more dollars can be funneled to clinical operations. With the maturity of many enterprise systems, healthcare payers and providers are now unlocking and leveraging their vast archives of data to: ensuring better spend management, tie human resource information into predictive acuity based staffing solutions and maximizing their supply chain efficiency.

In this keynote, Oracle will discuss how many world-class organizations, such has the National Health Service and UPMC, substantially improved the economics of healthcare delivery. Additionally, data and benchmarking data will be shared to underscore the opportunity in shared service and consolidated back office operations.

Speakers:

1. Gordon Gilman, CEO FacilicorpNB
2. Dan Wright, ADM, Ontario Buys
3. Karen Ryan, Shared Services Practice, CGI
4. Jay Lambert, former Vice-President, Aboriginal Telehealth Knowledge Circle

Security, Health Care and Shared Services

Speakers:

• Symantec - Speakers TBC

Speakers:

1. Jeannie Wexler, Management Consultant in strategy development, business planning and change management, PHSA
2. Rob Cooke, Author, "Shared Services: Mining for Corporate Gold", Managing Partner, Focis Consulting Inc.

• Keith Baldrey, Broadcast Journalist, BCTV on Global Television