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The Future of Innovation, Personalized Medicine and Genomics
A Unique Nexus of Industry, Government, and Academia For the last 20 years, The Annual Healthcare Summit has brought together thought leaders from around the world to discuss and find ways to advance your health and future care.
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The Annual Healthcare Summit assembles an eclectic group of world-class speakers, panellists and moderators to address the most pressing issues in healthcare as we accelerate the move to digital platforms that will fundamentally change the ways we transform the delivery of healthcare through innovation, personalized medicine and genomics. It is interesting to note that a local professor and scientist from the University of British Columbia, Dr. Pieter Cullis, developed the essential technology for the most successful COVID-19 vaccine in the world and will be one of this year's Keynote Speakers and a Panellist on Gene & Cell Based Therapies.
Thursday, Oct 21st Keynote Address: Dr. Pieter Cullis, Scientific Director and CEO, NanoMedicines Innovation Network; Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC
Friday, Oct 22nd - 5 speakers discussing one of the most critical topics today and ways to implement solutions.
HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: OVERRIDING CONCERNS ABOUT THE MASS EXODUS OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Moderator: Kirk LaPointe, Editor-in-Chief, Business in Vancouver EXPERT SPEAKERS: Mark Armitage, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Sector Workforce and Beneficiary Services Division, Ministry of Health Dr. Mark Britnell, Vice-Chair & Global Health Expert, KPMG UK; Author of “Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare” Tara McCarville, Principal Consultant, Brighton Group; Board Member, Starling Minds and WELL Health David Anderson, Director, Precision Health Program, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary Keith Lohkamp, Senior Director, Product Strategist, Workday
KPMG Keynote Address: Dr. Mark Britnell, Vice Chair & Global Healthcare Expert, KPMG UK; Author of “Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare” Canada is rightfully proud of its healthcare system. What started out as hospital insurance for the people of just one province around 50 years ago, has now blossomed into Universal Healthcare for 38 million people. Innovation is everywhere you look in Canada’s healthcare system but scaling solutions across provincial borders has been historically difficult. In theory, a single payer system would make it easier to facilitate innovation, but the reality is that federal-provincialterritorial collaboration has been challenging in practice. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, timelines for changes in the Canadian healthcare system were discussed in terms of years, not weeks. Canada was slow to adopt models such as valuebased care, virtual care, even multi-disciplinary team working. During the pandemic, rapid system transformation occurred. Virtual care became the new normal. Hallway medicine abruptly disappeared. Innovative models of care were adopted. A recent report from KPMG found that 81% of Canadians believe the pandemic has forever changed the delivery of healthcare for the country[i]. Primary care, in particular, had to rapidly evolve during the pandemic in order to ensure the health and safety of clinicians and staff while remaining connected to patients. Family doctors rose to this challenge and quickly adapted to virtual care. The Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHI) reported that 52% of patient visits took place virtually in April 2020. However, despite these advances, 25% of British Columbians have not seen their doctor or have seen them less frequently since the pandemici. Moreover, Black Canadians, Indigenous people and people of colour, have reported greater levels of dissatisfaction with the virtual care they have receivedi. This adds a level of complexity to a long-standing issue for the Canadian healthcare system – equitable access to primary care. Prior to the pandemic, about 1 in 6 British Columbians reported that they did not have access to a regular family doctor. While it’s tempting to frame the problem in terms of a shortage of family doctors, this group currently makes up over half of the physician workforce in the country.
Family medicine in Canada does not have a numbers problem, but rather current delivery models for primary care are still physician centric, despite the adoption of virtual care. Predominant fee-for-service (FFS) remuneration models tend to incentivize volume, can sometimes inhibit preventative care and underutilize other allied professions, such as nursing and physiotherapy. British Columbia (B.C) is tackling this issue head on. In September 2020, the government announced that 22 primary care networks would be coming throughout the province. These networks aim to ensure that all patients have access to a full range of team-based primary care services. The network teams will include family physicians, nurse practitioners and other health-care professionals, ranging from cultural safety facilitators to clinical pharmacists. Indigenous partners have been involved in the development of these networks from the start, advising on everything from planning to governance. It is estimated that these networks will help connect over 300,000 British Columbians to primary care providers in the coming years[ii]. In addition, 24 urgent and primary care centres have been opened to date. These centres provide access to sameday, urgent, non-emergency primary health care. While the pandemic has served as a powerful catalyst for change in the Canadian healthcare system, further integrating primary, secondary and community services will challenge working models even more. Innovations such as team-based care, changes to the scope of practice for nonphysician health professionals and alternative forms of remuneration like capitated models, as well as continuing to build on virtual care delivery are all viable options for primary care reform and need to be scaled across the country. To this end, the Federal government has promised to provide $400 million over the next four years to help expand virtual care. Canada must continue to capitalize on the momentum generated by the pandemic and take bold action to move the country’s healthcare system from innovation to implementation.
[i]https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/nearly-a-third-of-canadians-have-not-seentheir-family-doctor-since-covid-19-began-848824176.html [ii] https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020HLTH0280-001735
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Sustaining the Momentum for Change: Innovation to Implementation Key Panel Sessions at the 21st Annual Healthcare Summit Sustaining the Innovation Mindset Modern Data Protection Regulation in Healthcare - Health Data is the Most Sensitive and Valuable Personal Information
Subject Matter Experts Dr. Victoria Lee, President & CEO, Fraser Health Authority Sue Paish, CEO, Digital Technology Supercluster
Mary Ackenhusen, Senior Healthcare Executive Dr. Laura Furstenthal, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co
Overcoming Barriers and Facilitating Implementation Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Machine Learning The Future of Virtual Healthcare: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare Human Capital Management: Overriding Concerns about the Mass Exodus of Healthcare Professionals Gene & Cell Based Therapies: The Next Frontier Consumer Engaged Healthcare: How Empowering Consumers Can Lead to a Continuous-Learning Healthcare System Supported by More Thorough Data Acquisition, Data Aggregation and Interoperability Pharmacogenomics Value-Based Healthcare: Integration of Real-World Evidence Digital Technology Supercluster: Investing in the Future of Healthcare Riding an Innovation Wave Into a Health and Wellness Quantum Leap: Building Upon our Experiences REGISTER TODAY www.healthcaresummit.ca
The Annual Healthcare Summit has created a unique nexus between industry, government, practitioners and academia; Bringing together over 50 national and international healthcare leaders to connect, educate and discuss new strategies that drive innovation and lead to future implementation of transformative healthcare. The theme of this year’s Summit, Sustaining the Momentum for Change: Innovation to Implementation, calls out the need to take action by bringing together a wide array of expertise and technology, leveraging health research, genomics, digital health, human resources, knowledge, and information to accomplish major health transformation for the 21st Century. Solutions are needed to move to the next step of regularly bringing together advisors, consultants, subject matter experts and key opinion leaders to provide important strategic knowledge, opinions and insights to support the development of effective strategies and decisions. As an answer to this call, Reboot Health Consultancy and Advisory Services (https://reboothealthconsultancy.ca/) has been launched to facilitate meaningful communications between health innovators and healthcare stakeholders, fostering collaboration, catalyzing healthcare innovation in order to optimize the use and deployment of increasingly scarce resources in this country and attract meaningful investment to our geographical regions. In conclusion, we should seek opportunities to collaborate and share innovative ideas and develop true partnerships to solve the most problematic issues in healthcare. Thanks to our rapidly evolving understanding of biology and the application of innovation and new technology and the acceleration to digital platforms as a result of COVID, explosive change is coming in our ability to diagnose, treat, and even cure many debilitating diseases. Indeed, a golden age could be dawning for patients and healthcare practitioners. Learn More at www.rebootcommunications.com or www.healthcaresummit.ca
REGISTRATION INFORMATION Digital First Experience Virtual Registration $299.00 CAD (plus GST) In-Person Experience Registration by invitation for $375 plus GST. Coast Coal Harbour Hotel Vancouver BC To Register or request an invitation go to www.healthcaresummit.ca
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MICROSOFT HOW CAN RESEARCH TEAMS BETTER TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CLOUD TECHNOLOGY WHILE BALANCING COSTS? advancements in hardware without requiring regular updates or As the pace of medical research accelerates post pandemic, researchers today are navigating a complex technology environment where they are looking to increase their agility and elasticity while balancing the needs of their local IT teams who stress enterprise security and compliance. How can research teams better take advantage of cloud technology while balancing costs? The collaboration between illumiSonics, Microsoft Canada and the Photomedicine Labs at the University of Waterloo is one notable example as they partner together to accelerate real-time, touchless laser research geared to revolutionizing medical imaging with Microsoft Azure. Based in Canada, illumiSonics has been hard at work over the last few years developing a new tissue imaging technology called Photoacoustic Remote Sensing (PARS). Created in partnership with PhotoMedicine Labs at the University of Waterloo, this innovative medical imaging solution is likely to have wide-ranging applications, and in the words of its creators, PARS could fundamentally change the way people use images to diagnose tissue abnormalities and disease progression. The images that PARS creates are incredibly high resolution and include significant levels of detail at the cellular level. Processing and storing these images, especially at scale, requires substantial computational power. As we began to transition from a technology development company into a products and partnering company, our need for a scalable platform that regularly uses the latest technological
CERNER Digital technology has allowed businesses to build integrated solutions and use data to improve processes, create new products, and personalize customer experiences. But Canada’s healthcare system has yet to join this digital transformation in a meaningful way. I say this with gratitude and optimism because, unlike other industries, health care asks more of all of us each day. More systems to use, more complicated processes to follow. Physicians, nurses, patients, and vendors are all watching the bar get higher and higher. And as it rises, the expectations for a dynamic, nimble, and cutting-edge health care system grow. The average person thinks health is far more connected and agile than it is. So where are we? In many cases, clinical systems are either not used or not contributing data. What limited patient data exists is stuck in disparate silos of data. For example, data regarding a patient’s health record and social determinants, all reside with different clinicians, service providers, and provincial ministries. There are viable off the shelf digital solutions, platforms, and strategies, that should be employed by our healthcare systems to connect our all our data in the right way. We have seen the care coordination and patient benefits of implementing data exchanges for health records at scale. It’s not new, the pandemic has highlighted its need, and researchers are fighting for better access to this type of data. Connected data is leading innovation in all other industries, yet we in Canada can’t seem to pull it together and connect the data we need to analyze and in turn, use the data to make health system improvements. So how do we set up for success? Unfortunately, these strategies fall between regional and provincial governments.That makes the conversations complex and disruptive. Health ministries need to adopt a model that aims to use data to guide and improve the health of their citizens.
maintenance on our end became paramount,” says Rocky Ganske, Chief Executive Officer of illumiSonics. “We needed a GPU-inclusive platform capable of scaling with our business and delivering the real-time results of PARS microscopy to what will soon be a steadily growing number of customers.” Because the data in question also contains highly sensitive patient information, any platform that illumiSonics adopted needed to be highly secure. “The goal has been to adopt a platform that grants us knowledge and control over which of our images can be accessed by a given customer,” says Professor Parsin Haji Reza, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of illumiSonics and Director of PhotoMedicine Labs at the University of Waterloo. “We also need those images, which can be up to 70 gigabytes in size, to be viewable without requiring download.” As is the case with most research facilities, PhotoMedicine Labs regularly experiences sharp spikes in its computational needs. These spikes are created when a research project reaches a result-generating phase, or while addressing peer-reviewed modifications for publication, and they’re separated by frequent, extended periods of low or no computational demand. “We might need hundreds of thousands of processing cores and GPU nodes in a day, followed by two months of relative inactivity,” says Dr. Haji Reza. “Azure provides us that sort of elasticity, and as illumiSonics grows, it will become even more important.”
MILLIONS/ BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE INVESTED IN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH IN CANADA/ WORLDWIDE, YET WE FAIL TO IMPLEMENT KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY MICROSOFT Rocky Ganske President and Chief Executive Officer, illumiSonics Helia Mohammadi Chief Data Scientist & Healthcare Lead for Quebec and Western Canada, Canada, Microsoft
Although clinical systems are very important, the tools of the future will rely on the data population health systems provide to create a comprehensive picture of each patient, and give real-time information to front line healthcare providers, administrators, and the government to shift to “preventative care” and solve healthcare challenges. The technology exists. Where it is enabled, we are seeing better coordination of care, greater collaboration within health teams, greater efficiencies in the health care system, and most of all transparency on how health care systems can become sustainable. Here is the gratitude, and optimism part of the story. It is well established that we provide great care in Canada - it is world class. Our issues are really based in administrative, technical and system design.When we discuss these shortcomings, we cannot forget there are real people doing heroic things to deliver care. All of this has been highlighted during the pandemic again and again. No matter what side of the data strategy conversation you are on, it directly impacts you. As a consumer, you expect tools to navigate and make the right choices as a user of the health care system. As a healthcare provider, you must use the data you have to give the best possible outcomes to your patients, and that access is often limited . Our health care systems are not incented to be agile, and innovation in health care is being incented by delivering better transactions not by building intelligence. I believe these are solvable issues if we follow one key mission; Get the data where it needs to go. The momentum in health care innovation needs to swell around a data architecture that allows us to derive intelligence at all levels— the patient, the provider, city, region, health system, and ministry level—all at the same time, so we can learn from it and act quickly and proactively. We don’t have to all be on one system, we just have to be using the same data strategy. - Michael Billanti
Written by Michael Billanti
Director of Population Health, Cerner Canada
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ROCHE What if Rapid Antigen tests were deployed broadly? Experts will not deny that, when it comes to detecting SARS-CoV-2, PCR tests are highly reliable to deliver effective results, which of course is a critical part in fighting this unprecedented global healthcare emergency. To be honest, they remain the gold standard and definitely the method of choice in Canada’s screening strategy… But what if PCR tests are less available? What if faster results are needed? What if quick isolation of COVID-19 cases is necessary? What if we would bring testing to the patient rather than the other way around? Let’s stop for a minute and think how SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test can be an ally in the fight against COVID-19.
first things first: Rapid Antigen tests are different from PCR tests Advantages:
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With results ready in 15 minutes, SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Tests increases Canada’s testing capacity at the point of care. They reliably and quickly triage people suspected of COVID-19 allowing informed decisions including rapid isolation. Instrument-free testing kits enable convenient use and a seamless workflow for healthcare professionals at different point of care locations or in resource-limited settings.
Testing is necessary even if vaccinated We know, by now many of you are probably vaccinated, and you think testing is not necessary anymore. But vaccines are not a cure and science has demonstrated that even when vaccinated, you can still carry the virus and infect others. Even if the risks of transmission and severe complications are reduced, there are risks, nonetheless. Symptomatic or asymptomatic, vaccinated or not, respecting the sanitary measures and getting tested is the least we can do to take care of ourselves and our loved ones.
Rapid Antigen testing to enjoy your normal Imagine you want to attend concerts, sports events or any other indoor or outdoor gathering. Well, as we have seen in other countries, it is not impossible that soon a negative test result would be required to have access to these activities. Rapid tests can make the testing experience faster and easier, so you do not miss your favourite activities. Of course, if the result is positive, a PCR test could then be needed to confirm the result.
Rapid Antigen testing for all sectors of activity Rapid testing can play an important role especially in places where laboratory testing is not easily available and quick results are needed, such as nursing homes, events, healthcare facilities, workplaces and schools.
Did you know? In January 2021, the COVID-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel identified four priority areas for action published in their report titled “Priority strategies to optimize testing and screening for COVID-19 in Canada”, one of which includes the deployment of rapid tests for screening.
Rapid Antigen testing to support a safe reopening of the Canadian economy The Industry Advisory Roundtable on COVID-19 Testing, Screening, Tracing and Data Management released a report that reiterates the importance of using rapid tests to screen for COVID-19 in workplace settings. Rapid tests help with the quick isolation of positive COVID-19 cases to keep the rest of the workplace safe and support the economic recovery. Rapid testing is also supported by Medtech Canada and its members including Roche Diagnostics. In a position paper that highlights a series of recommendations calling for comprehensive testing strategies, including the deployment of rapid antigen tests, Medtech Canada urged provincial governments to fully use all available tools in the toolbox in order to help Canadians go back to a more normal life, reopen the economy and save lives.
New recommendations from the Federal Government Recently, the Government of Canada increased the availability of rapid test kits for workers across the country. The goal is to ensure rapid access to these tests by working with various industries to support the screening for high-contact workers in critical sectors. This initiative can help organizations detect cases earlier, better protect their workforce and reduce community transmission while keeping the economy running. Learn more about COVID-19 testing solutions at www.rochecanada.com
JOIN THE 21ST ANNUAL HEALTHCARE SUMMIT ON OCT 21-22, 2021 FOR KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY Dr. Dermot Kelleher, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Dr. Kelleher Author of 300 publications and 14 patents, Dr. Kelleher’s research examines immune responses in gastrointestinal disease and cancer. Over his entire career, he has worked to found several companies supporting translational developments in biomedical science and fostering collaboration in biomedical research. He has a strong commitment to innovation and collaboration and is the Chair of the Standing Committee on Research and Innovation at the Association of Faculties of Medicine Canada. Learn more on the summit at www.healthcaresummit.ca