
2nd IoT, Big Data Healthcare Summit Western Canada / November 28-29, 2017 at Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, Vancouver, BC
A BIG thank you to all the sponsors, speakers and attendees
Sensors, mobile devices, and related technologies are presenting new opportunities and risks for businesses. Collectively known as the Internet of Things (IoT), this broad term covers all non-computer and non-phone Internet-connected devices.
Healthcare environments produce a tremendous amount of information because of their process, engagement of multiple players and high volume of users. That data is only going to increase as baby-boomers reach retirement age and require better and more frequent healthcare services. With large cohorts of an ageing population and ageing infrastructure, service delivery becomes expensive and difficult for cities and governments. Automating systems through utilization of IoT, Big Data, and M2M tools and technologies demonstrate great opportunity to reduce operating costs significantly, utilize those savings more effectively, and provide better services to communities.
There has been a lot of buzz about “big data” over the last few years. This is hardly surprising, given the sheer scale of the data sets that are being produced daily. A total of 2.5 quintillion terabytes of data were generated every day in 2012 alone, and it is estimated that as much data is now generated in just two days as was created from the dawn of civilization until 2003. While other industries have been far more successful at harnessing the value from large-scale integration and analysis of big data, healthcare is just getting its feet wet. To bridge this gap and to create a common platform for healthcare professionals and technology players, we are organizing a conference that will facilitate dialogue, create learning opportunities, and help the industry become efficient and move forward.
After the success of the IoT, Big Data Healthcare Summit in Toronto in June 2016 and the IoT, Big Data Healthcare Summit Western Canada in Vancouver in January 2017, this will be the 2nd IoT, Big Data Healthcare Summit Western Canada. It is an umbrella event that will encompass IoT, Big Data, and Machine to Machine (M2M). The objective of the conference is to bring the whole healthcare industry under one roof and understand opportunities and challenges IoT technologies and tools present. Needs and challenges faced by each of these are unique and so are opportunities to improve service, reduce costs, and improve healthcare systems.
- Conservative estimates put the IoT market at US $15 Trillion in 10 years time
- North America represents 26% of the global IoT economy which puts the Canadian market at around $17 billion and expected to grow to over $300 Billion in the next 10 years.
- Healthcare is worth $117 billion and expected to grow to over $1.7 trillion in the ten years.
Feedback from past summits
The ability to gain insight into what technologies are available to enhance the patient experience along the continuum of care was invaluable
Lina Rinaldi
COO/CNE, Brant Community Healthcare System
I really enjoyed the conference. Great to have pan Canadian representation!
Janet Short
Director Finance & Administration, Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre
I thought the summit was overall very good quality. I enjoyed the smaller audience for interaction, ability for audience to ask question and candid discussions.
Paul Gallant
President, Gallant HealthWorks
Excellent chats with other attendees. Great presentations. Good variety of presentations.
2017 Healthcare West Attendee
Good balance between vendors and public health. Really enjoyed the networking time.
Cam Mitchner
BCCDC
We generated a few leads at the industrial IoT session. To the end we would see participating in the IIoT event next year.
Vani Edwardson
VP Marketing, Macadamian
You chose good speakers!! Interesting two days. As well, the time allocation to each speaker was good and length of day good. Well planned conference.
2017 Healthcare West Attendee
Great job. Different conference than the typical big ehealth type conferences. The specialized topics were interesting. Good size. Keep returning to Vancouver, not just TO. Thx!
Tiffany Chui
Fraser Health
The conference included a good mix of local, Canadian and US based speakers providing many different point of views and perspectives on IoT matters from their respective spheres of health care.
Jessie Rodrigue
Operations Director, Surgical Services, Vancouver General Hospital
Satisfaction with the 2016 Summit
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Participants include:
Participants from Past Summits
Presentations from the January 2017 IoT, Big Data Healthcare Summit
Western Canada are available:
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Welcome & Chair’s Remarks

Keynote: Providing healthcare in the 21st century
- Keeping pace with changing expectations and managing innovation
- Defining the role of IoT and Big Data in accelerating data-informed education and change
- Understanding the impact of patient driven care through new tools and technologies

Tech Keynote: Improving Compliance and Standardizing with a Smart Pump Medication Library Across a Large Hospital System

Creating an Adaptive Health Systems: From Big Data to Better Practice
- Keeping pace with changing expectations and managing innovation
- Defining the role of IoT and Big Data in accelerating data-informed education and change
- Understanding the impact of patient driven care through new tools and technologies
Morning Networking Break

Achieving Data Security and Privacy in the Big Data Health Analytics and Collaborative Health Research Environment
- Paradigm shift in collaborative health research with the introduction of AI agents
- Security and privacy requirements of researcher-in-the-loop approach
- Blockchain approach for provable security and privacy
Panel: Building Tomorrow’s Hospital Today
- Planning for hospital of the future
- Choosing the right tools & partners
- How can we build infrastructure today that can be relevant in 20 years’ time?
- David Wiljer, Executive Director, University Health Network
- Linda Lupini, Executive Vice President, PHSA & BC Emergency Health Services
- Ralph Hamzo, Director of Business Development, Portal724
- Michael Bond, Vice-President, Medication Management Solutions, BD - Canada
Networking Lunch

Case Study – Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Edmonton
- Evaluating users’ early experiences with an electronic medical record in ambulatory care to support optimal use

Machine Learning: Evolution of Business Intelligence in Health Care
- Monitoring key performance indicators (KPI) using business intelligence
- Applying machine learning on KPIs at Health Information Management (HIM)
- Forecasting and pattern mining using machine learning models

Scaling Remote Patient Monitoring to Over 60,000 Patients, Where One Device Does Not Fit All
Case Study: Virtual CEP (Cardiac Electrophysiology) from Idea to Implementation – A clinical and technological perspective
- Nicole Cook, Provincial Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Services BC, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Victoria School of Nursing
- Megan Stowe RN BN MScN, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Fraser Health Authority
Afternoon Networking Break

Harnessing Big Data to Advance the Care of Frail Older Canadians Connecting Primary Care
- Frailty when identified early can be thwarted
- Consistent measurement of frailty is key to interventions that may prevent decline and increased dependency among older adults
- By using instruments already implemented, you reduce the need for additional data collection tools, time or resources.
- Looking to big data already sent to CIHI for answers.
Close of Day 1
Breakfast
Recap of Day 1

Redefining Patient Care Journey
- From hospitals to primary care centers
- How can IoT, Big Data make us less hospital dependent
- Data flow from primary care centers to hospitals

Case Study – British Columbia’s workplace Health and Safety Trends
- Call center data and what it tells us
- Provincial health data trends and lessons
- Health, safety and disability management
- Provincial data environment
Morning Networking Break

Data Privacy – Presentation by Information and Privacy Commission of BC
Panel: Redesigning Canadian Healthcare System – Future of Integrated Medicine
- Using Research Evidence and Data to Inform a New Approach
- Role & engagement of Physicians
- Creating the culture – The Starting Point
- Enhancing the experience and outcome through engagement at the client, organization, system
- Creating technology environments for connectivity communication and care
- Arun Garg MD, Regional Medical Director, Medical Biochemistry Fraser Health, Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia
- Jessie Rodrigue, Operational Director, Surgical Services & L/BMP Program, Vancouver General Hospital
- Uzma Ali, Business Intelligence Analyst / ETL Developer, Providence Health Care

Remote Health or Virtualization of Care to Facilitate Provision
- Realizing obstacles to providing care for remote and isolated communities
- Attitude towards implementing traditional healing methods vs increasing digital care
- Are there any cultural restrictions? Local government regulations?
- Availability of funds and resources to expedite the application of technology

Building Data Driven Healthcare System – Case Study from Health Data Coalition
- A learning health system requires data
- Status of healthcare innovation and research in BC

It’s 4:32 am do you know what’s on YOUR network?
Networking Lunch

Seniors Care in the 21st Century: What’s Changing and How Can Technology Best Serve as an Enabler?

Spiritual Machines: Leveraging Technology to Improve Health and Humanism
Close of Conference Followed by Afternoon Coffee Break
Speakers
Megan Stowe
Chief Clinical Information Officer
Fraser Health Authority
Dr. Shannon McDonald
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)
David Wiljer
Executive Director of Education, Technology & Innovation
University Health Network
Linda Lupini
Executive VP
PHSA & BC Emergency Health Services
Larry Svenson
Executive Director & Provincial Health Analytics Officer
Alberta Health
Dr. Bruce Hobson
Medical Director
Health Data Coalition
Dave Keen
Executive Director FH Workplace Health
Fraser Health Authority
Drew McArthur
Commissioner
Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for BC
Arun Garg
Regional Medical Director of
Medical Biochemistry,
Fraser Health
Clinical Professor,
University of British Columbia
Dr. Eric Cadesky
President-Elect
Doctors of BC
Bram Ramjiawan
Director of Research, Innovation & Regulatory Affairs
St. Boniface General Hospital & Research Centre Winnipeg
Jessie Rodrigue
Operations Director, Surgical Services and L/BMT Program
Vancouver General Hospital
Michael Bond
Vice-President, Medication Management Solutions
BD – Canada
Dan Levitt
Executive Director
Tabor Village
Paul Gallant
President
Gallant Healthworks
Ralph Hamzo
Director of Business Development
Portal724
Jason Vasilash
Account Manager
ForeScout
Dr. Reza Samavi
Assistant Professor
McMaster University
Erane McManus
Manager Communication Disorder
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Greg Zinck
Manager Case Mix Methodologies & Specialized Care
Canadian Institute of Health Information
Kim Heath, PharmD
Medication Safety Coordinator
TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Uzma Ali
Business Intelligence Analyst / ETL Developer
Providence Health Care
Nicole Cook
Provincial Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Services BC, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Victoria School of Nursing
If you are interested in speaking at this conference, please call +1 (416) 597-5751 or email us at info@iotevents.ca
Speakers from past healthcare summits:
- Angela Copeland, Director, Data and Analytic Services, Cancer Care Ontario
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Barry M. Rivelis, SVP & CIO, Pacific, Blue Cross
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David Murray, CEO, Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Center
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Dr. Aviv Gladman, CMIO, Mackenzie Health
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Nancy Lefebre, Chief Clinical Executive & SVP – Knowledge & Practice, Saint Elizabeth
- Dr. William Clifford, Chief Medical Information Officer, Northern Health BC
- Asim Masood, Regional Chief Medical Information Officer, William Osler Health
- Jan Walker, Vice President Strategy & CIO, West Park Healthcare Centre
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Lina Rinaldi, COO, Brant Community Healthcare System
- Yoel Robens-Paradise, VP Clinical Systems and Transformation, Providence Health Care
- Rick Hu, President & Founder, Vivametrica
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Ron Johnson, CIO (Interim), Eastern Health
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Beth Linkewich, Director, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center
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Bram Ramjiawan, Director, St Boniface General Hospital Research Center
- Dr. Thom Tyson, CEO, Appletree Medical Group
- Victoria Schuckel, Executive Director, Research, Knowledge Translation and Library Services, Ministry of Health British Columbia
- Rowena Rizzotti, Chief Executive, Institute For Healthcare Innovation
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Nicole Troiano, Executive Director, Retire at Home
- Dr. Stafford Dean, Senior Program Officer, Analytics, Alberta Health Services
- Dr. Tyler Amell, Partner, Morneau Shepell
- Isobel Mackenzie, Seniors Advocate, Province of British Columbia, Office of the Seniors Advocate BC
- Paul Gallant, President, Gallant Healthworks, VP, Journil Solutions Ltd.
- Anita Bergen, Manager of Resident Safety, Quality Improvement,
Staff Continuing Education, Saskatoon Health Region - Deb Prowse, Health Advocate, Alberta Healthcare Advocate
- Abubakar Khan, Director, Toronto Regional Operations, OPC Canada
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Dr. Steven Liang, Associate Professor, University of Calgary
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Megan Angus, ICAT Practice Director, HH Angus
Silver Sponsor
Associate Sponsors
Conference Partner
Media & Association Partners
Who should attend this conference
- Healthcare professionals
- System administrators
- IT Directors
- IT Managers
- MIS managers
- Medical Superintendents
- Hospital Directors
- Operations staff at ministry of Health
- Community healthcare providers
- Medical Equipment manufacturers
- Service providers to healthcare facilities
- Healthcare related unions
- Data analysts
- Data architects
- System architects
Participants include:
Participants from past summits
Conference Venue / Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, Vancouver, BC
The conference took place at Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Downtown Vancouver, BC.
Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront
1133 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver, BC, V6E 3T3
Venue’s website: http://www.pinnacleharbourfronthotel.com/