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Presentation for Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park Project Name: Health Informatics Research and Education Innovation Fund

Presenter: Dr. Tyler Williamson, Associate Director, Centre for Health Informatics April 30th, 2020

Cumming School of Medicine: Introduction

• Dr. Tyler Williamson

Current Rankings Associate Director Centre for Health Informatics Associate Professor Department of Community Health Sciences Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Institute Memberships O’Brien Institute for Public Health Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute Research Interests

• health data integration

chronic disease surveillance and research

• using electronic medical record data

non-canonical link functions for binomial

• generalized linear models

Cumming School of Medicine

Our Pillars Education I Research I Community

Philanthropy: Together, we can create a better future of health

“The Cumming School of Medicine is primed for transformation. As a community we need to support the leaders and innovators who can show us what a world-class, research-intensive medical school looks like, and what in turn, it means to be global leaders. The single best thing we can do to improve health care and health outcomes for Calgarians and beyond is to invest in health research.”

• Bill Sembo,

donor, community leader and volunteer

Centre for Health Informatics (CHI)

Established in 2018 as the University of Calgary’s newest innovation and research centre within the Cumming School of Medicine

Uniqueness and leadership

Access to wide range of data types Alberta Healthcare system with data in one place Integration of AHS within CHI

— Direct Access to current data- analyze and access whole

populations securely

Collaborations Alberta Health Services

In-house AHS employees with direct access Rolling out Connect Care

University of Alberta

Collaborations with U of A researchers who are strong in Artificial Intelligence

Alberta SPOR Support Unit

SPOR platforms work together and are in both Edmonton and Calgary. Data platform is half in CHI and half in U of A

Distinction and Global Recognition Promoting global health using statistics, providing data techniques for implementation worldwide Global applicable products, refining and standardizing terminology for data collection One of four academic centres globally for classification

• f disease

Connect Care A single province wide EHR system in all AHS facilities Presents an incredibly unique opportunity AHS is looking to the CHI to help them know how to use this new data source

Impact: COVID-19

• Use our direct AHS data access to build a COVID-19 tracker to aid

policy decisions by the provincial and municipal government to inform evidence-based policies.

• CHI’s close relationship with Alberta Health and Alberta Health

Services as well as the University’s infrastructure allowed the COVID Task Force to get a front-facing, accessible tracker live in less than week.

• The Centre for Health Informatics plans to use the unique

position it is in to continue projects to help inform the public

COVID Response Tracker

https://www.chi-csm.ca/

The CHI-CSM COVID-19 Response aims to answer three main questions:

• 1. What does the current COVID-19 crisis look like across provinces
• 2. How is Canada doing compared to other countries?
• 3. Are policy changes making a difference in ‘flattening the curve’?

Data Informs Policy

• The COVID-19 tracker created by the team at CHI shows the

unique position CHI is in to impact the community

• Accessible, current health data and expert data scientists are

vital for the health of the community and for the government to make evidence-based policy decisions

• This not only impacts patients but also changes the health

system itself

Wrap up Thank you and questions

“Using the outstanding health data we have access to in Alberta, we are having a huge impact on quality of life through prevention and treatment of disease. Big data-driven decisions will change the future

• f health care.”
• Marcello Tonelli,

Associate Vice President of Health Research, University of Calgary