Happy New Year, and welcome back! We’re looking forward to starting 2026 together and continuing our shared work on equity-oriented modernization of sex and gender information in digital health. This is a friendly reminder that the next Sex and Gender Working Group (SGWG) meeting will be held on:
Tuesday, January 27
9:00–10:00 am PT / 12:00–1:00 pm ET
Draft agenda:
1. Welcome and Territorial Acknowledgement
2. Ground Rules for Respectful Dialogue
3. Setting the 2026 agenda: equity-oriented GSSO modernization in digital health
4. Pan-Canadian GSSO updates
5. HL7 Anatomical Inventory & Person Characteristics update
6. Jurisdictional standards updates
7. GSSO Digital Health Hub
8. Schedule review
9. Adjournment
The session will be co-facilitated by the SGWG co-chairs, with contributions from Canada Health Infoway.
If you have agenda items or suggestions, please send them to:
Kelly Davison (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or
Shannon O’Connor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
New to the Sex and Gender Working Group? You’re very welcome to join. Please register here:
infoway-inforoute.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqf-yoqjIpGtFrqu1R8-9WMY1j8oDWjXZl
Guidelines for respectful dialogue:
1. Express disagreement with ideas, not people
2. Share airtime
3. Stay on topic and build on what others have said
4. Listen to understand, especially when you disagree
5. Acknowledge what you’ve heard
6. Leave rank at the door—we are all equal here
7. Look for common ground
8. Identify and test assumptions
We’re grateful for the care, expertise, and generosity you bring to this space, and we’re excited about the year ahead.
Improving the quality of patient care through the effective sharing of clinical information among health care organizations, clinicians and their patients.
SGWG January 27, 2026 Meeting: 9am PT/12pm ET
Twitter