2026 Pan-Canadian Health Information Exchange (HIE) Standards Online 3-Day Virtual Workshop

The School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria is hosting 3-day virtual workshop from 4pm till 6:30pm Pacific Time on Tuesday April 28th to Thursday April 30th, 2026. Guest speakers from across Canada will be presenting on a variety of HIE-related topics, including the shared pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap, CIHI standards, Canada Health Infoway standards, and HL7 FHIR. Our multi-day workshops are flexible—join as many or as few sessions as you'd like!

Visit the virtual event page for all the details. Please also see the Zoom Link and agenda below. 

Workshop Agenda

Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT - CIHI Data Standards

• 4:00pm – 4:40pm PT 
  CIHI Data Standards 101: A Path to Interoperability (Shannon O’Connor, CIHI)
• 4:40pm -5:20pm PT 
  Pan-Canadian Data Standards for Health Equity and Social Care (Jennifer Lawson and Brooke Harvey, CIHI)
• 5:20pm – 5:50pm PT 
  Health Data Stewardship: A framework to transform health data management & drive change (Jesse Fracassi, CIHI) 
• 5:50pm – 6:00pm PT 
  Discussion and Questions with the CIHI Team
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm PT 
  Addressing Disease Risk Factors in Primary Care Settings (Alex Singer, Director, Manitoba Primary Care Research Network) 

Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT - Infoway Data Standards

• 4:00pm – 4:15pm PT 
  Canadian Standards Release Centre - (Tarek Kadoura, Infoway)
• 4:15pm – 4:25pm PT 
  Overview of Health Information Exchange (HIE) Standards – Role of Terminology and Data Exchange Standards in Interoperability (Janice Spence, Infoway) 

Interoperability Standards in Action

• 4:25pm – 4:40pm PT 
  Canadian Medicines Terminology (CMT) Project (Julie Boutin,Infoway)
• 4:40pm - 4:50pm PT 
  Infoway Support for SNOMED CT Immunization Content (Myriam Talantikit, Infoway)
• 4:50pm - 5:00pm PT 
  Terminology Services: Infoway Terminology Server (Janice Spence, Infoway)
• 5:00pm – 5:15pm PT 
  Pan-Canadian Patient Summary Progress (Sonia Balgah, Infoway)
• 5:15pm – 5:50pm PT 
  Health Application Lightweight Protocol (Halo) & Introduction on CA Core+ (Alex Reis, Infoway)
• 5:50pm – 6:00pm PT 
  2026 Projectathon Update (Sonia Balgah, Infoway)
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm PT 
  Discussion and Questions (Infoway Team)

Thursday, April 30, 2026, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT - HL7 FHIR 

• 4:00pm – 5:30pm PT 
  FHIR questionnaires and maps(Lloyd McKenzie, Chief Standards Officer, Dogwood Health Consulting) 
• 5:30pm – 6:30pm PT 
  Finding, Using, Shaping Pan-Canadian FHIR Standards (Sheridan Cook and Irfan Hakim, Accenture)