Data security continues to ramp up as a key strategic and tactical issue for healthcare IT leaders across Canada, a panel of industry experts agreed, on Sep. 21, during the first day of the Health IT Summit in Toronto, sponsored by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2—a sister organization to Healthcare Informatics under the Vendome Group corporate umbrella), and being held at the Omni King Edward Hotel in downtown Toronto.
The panel discussion was led by Shirley Fenton, vice president and director of the National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI—based in Waterloo, Ont.), who is one of the three co-chairs of the Health IT Summit in Toronto. Joining her on the panel were Brendan Seaton, president of the Mississauga, Ont.-based ITAC Health (the Information Technology Association of Canada, Canada’s national healthcare IT vendor association), Alyssa Daku, vice president of strategy, quality, and risk management, ateHealth Saskatchewan (Regina), and Geoff Besko, managing director and enterprise architect at Hilltop Business Solutions (Winnipeg).
Shirley Fenton began the discussion by asking, “How are people’s attitudes towards privacy and security changing now?” ITAC Health’s Seaton said, “A lot of surveys have been funded by Canada’s Health Infoway, and it’s pretty much an axiom that there is significant demand for digital health solutions among the public. However, privacy and security do top the list of consumer concerns. That’s sort of where we are,” he said. For the full article click here
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