privacy of
electronic health records
Presentations, lecture notes and visual aids delivered at the Federated
Press Privacy of Electronic Health Records Course held in Toronto
on January 30 & 31, 2002.
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Course Leader
Joe Bornstein*
KPMG Consulting LP
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Joe Bornstein is a Senior Manager in KPMG Consulting's
National Health Services Practice as well as co-leader of their health
services in Ontario and Eastern Canada. Joe has over 20 years experience
in consulting and research in healthcare in both Canada and the United
States. He has dealt with the issue of privacy, as it is applied, at a
very practical level with many different healthcare organizations. A
strong focus of his consulting practice is in inter-organizational
efforts to provide shared services. Joe has directed many large
provincial and national reviews of health programs. He has also
developed expertise in the use and application of healthcare information
systems. He has developed clinical and evaluative information systems
for community health centres, regional geriatric programs, home care
systems as well as a variety of other programs. |
Co-Lecturers
Gilbert S. Sharpe
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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Gilbert S. Sharpe heads the Health Law Group at Cassels
Brock & Blackwell LLP. Gilbert is a veteran of healthcare legislation,
having joined the Ministry of Health in 1975, and he has been involved
in every major legal issue, as well as many major policy issues,
involving healthcare since that time. Gilbert is Chief Health Law
Consultant to the Ontario Ministry of Health, President of the Canadian
Institute of Law and Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of Health Law in
Canada. Among his university faculty appointments, he is Chairman of
Health Law Academic Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster
University. |
Bala Kathiresan
Niagara Health System
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Bala Kathiresan is the Chief Information
Officer for the Niagara Health System, which provides a network of
health services through eight hospitals with over 1,000 beds and serves
a region of communities stretching from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Bala
is responsible for the information management portfolio that includes
information technology/system, telecommunications, health records,
patient registration/resources and health information research and
analysis. Prior to joining the Niagara Health System, Bala was the
Vice-President of Healthtech Inc. in Toronto. |
Peter Lambert
St. Michael's Hospital
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Peter Lambert is Manager of Information
Security at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Drawing upon his
healthcare management experience in information privacy and security,
health records, patient registration and information technology, Peter
is responsible for the development, implementation and support of the
Hospital's information privacy and security program. He has also
overseen implementation of a hospital-based EHR and the operation of a
nationally recognized health information website. He has also served as
Vice-Chair of the InfoHealth Alliance, Southeastern Ontario's regional
healthcare information organization. |
Bonnie J. Adamson, FCCHSE
Huron Perth Hospitals Partnership
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Bonnie J. Adamson is President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Huron Perth Hospitals Partnership, providing
system-wide leadership to an integrated network of eight hospitals.
Bonnie is the first CEO of this multi-site partnership hospital, and she
previously acted as Vice-President of Patient Networks and Alliances at
the London Health Sciences Centre, Patient Centred Care for Victoria
Campus and Patient Services at the Victoria Hospital Corporation. In
2001, Bonnie was elected to a representative Director position for the
province of Ontario for the Canadian College of Health Services
Executives. |
David A. Harris
KPMG Consulting LP
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David A. Harris is a Manager in KPMG
Consulting's Public Services Practice. With over 15 years of experience
in design and implementation of clinical and administrative systems in
ambulatory care clinics, David is a specialist in information technology
in healthcare, well acquainted with issues of privacy, confidentiality
and security of patient data. He brings a real-world perspective on the
challenges that arise in a shared clinical environment. He has led
numerous health information integration projects to present a complete
clinical profile to caregivers and to support outcomes measurement. |
Ryan McRonald
KPMG Consulting LP
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Ryan McRonald is a Consulting Manager
with KPMG Consulting. His experience and expertise includes privacy,
information security, IT architecture and systems integration. Ryan has
Canadian public sector consulting experience at both the federal and
provincial levels. |
Emmanuel Casalino
KPMG Consulting LP
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Emmanuel Casalino, a Manager in the
Public Services Practice, is a seasoned professional with direct
experience in the e-business environment, specializing in electronic
service delivery, knowledge management, privacy and marketing solutions. |
Julie A. Thorburn
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP |
Julie A. Thorburn works in the Toronto
offices of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. She has been instrumental in
redefining entire areas of copyright law, an innovation and achievement
that will benefit writers, composers and artists for years to come. At
the same time, she also helps clients cope with rapidly evolving issues
of privacy, trade secrets, copyright and Charter issues. Julie is a
prolific writer and speaks frequently on these issues. Among her
credits, she co-authored The Law of Confidential Business Information
(Canada Law Book, 1998) and "Taming the Electronic Wild West" in
Digital Democracy (Oxford University Press, 1998). She chairs the
Media and Communications law section of the Ontario Bar Association and
is a member of the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. Julie was
graduated from Queen's University Law School, The Hague Academy of
International Law and the Université de Montréal. |
* Not featured on this CD.
Biographies are accurate at the time of recording.. |
