In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of digital technologies has become pivotal for enhancing patient care, improving healthcare delivery, and optimizing digital health ecosystems. Canada, with its diverse and widespread population, faces unique challenges in healthcare delivery, making the adoption of digital health solutions essential.
This presentation delves into the critical importance of building digital care capacity and fostering digital health knowledge, skills, and attitudes among the healthcare workforce in Canada. It underscores the necessity for a digitally competent healthcare workforce to meet the current and future needs of the Canadian healthcare system.
The future of healthcare in Canada is intrinsically linked to the digital competence of its healthcare professionals, making the cultivation of these skills not just beneficial but essential for the continued health and well-being of its population. The transition towards a digitally enabled healthcare system in Canada requires a Pan-Canadian collaborative effort to build digital care capacity and enhance the digital health competencies of the healthcare workforce.
Featured Speaker:
Glynda Rees RN, MSN, ACHIP, CPHIMS-CA, FAMIA, British Columbia Institute of Technology, BC, Canada
Glynda Rees is Program Head for the BCIT Advanced Certificate in Digital Health. She completed an MSN at the University of British Columbia with a focus on education and health informatics, and a BSN at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She is currently a student in the Doctor of Nursing program at the University of Calgary.
Glynda’s career includes over 15 years of clinical nursing, mostly in Critical Care, and 18 years as an educator in the BCIT BSN program. Glynda’s interests include digital health education, the impact of health information technologies on clinical judgment and decision making at the point of care, and the potential for health information technologies to improve health outcomes across communities.
Glynda co-authored the Open Educational Resources Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care and Health Case Studies, and the Digital Health Nursing Informatics E-Resource with the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing. Glynda is currently co-leading a provincial initiative for an Interprofessional Educational Electronic Health Record for teaching and learning in healthcare.
Fees:
CCHL members: $10.00
Non-members: $15.00
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