Innovators and entrepreneurs: learn how you can collaborate with health-care leaders who are transforming our local health-care system through innovations in digital health and integrated care that improve people’s health and care experiences. Find out how you can get involved, spark new collaborations and co-design solutions.

About this Event:

Led by Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), the Innovation Hub of St. Lawrence College and the Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre as part of the HI YGK health innovation initiative, join Frontenac Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA OHT) leaders to learn how they are co-designing a more integrated, equitable health-care system through digital innovation and integrated care models.

In this session you will learn about:

• Frontenac Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team that is transforming our local health-care system through innovations in digital health and integrated care models
• Opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs to collaborate with the FLA OHT on this transformation journey
• Opportunities for innovation to address rural health challenges

Innovations in health care can improve people’s health and care experiences and drive economic growth. It’s about #InnovatingTogetherForBetterHealth. Be part of the solution and join the conversation on May 24.

Learn more about the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team

About the Experts:

Kim Morrison has extensive experience within the health-care sector. As a Fellow of the Canadian College of Family Physicians (FCFP), she is a family physician in Napanee and Chief of Staff at the Lennox and Addington County General Hospital. She also leads the Primary Care Alliance. Kim is presently the Executive Lead of the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA-OHT) and Primary Care Lead of the Regional Health Information System (Lumeo) Project. Kim is passionate about person-centred care founded in a primary care based “Health Home” where people’s physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and health needs must be acknowledged and addressed in order to be “well”. She is committed to achieving this by supporting the building of a connected, and truly integrated health and wellness system using the resources available most efficiently through innovation and collaboration.

Daniel Glatt works in Napanee as a family physician and as a hospitalist at Lennox and Addington County General Hospital. He is also the co-chair of the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team Digital Support Structure, chair of the Digital Toolbox Committee for the Rural Frontenac Lennox and Addington Health Collective, and the Lennox and Addington County General Hospital (LACGH) Physician Champion for the Lumeo Southeast Regional Health Information System. One of Dan’s key interests is understanding and evaluating how technology can improve health-care delivery for both the health-care providers and the people they serve.

Jim (Sc’81, PhD’90) is the Academic Director of the Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre, former Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s and a co-founder of the Queen’s Innovation Centre Summer Initiative (formerly known as QSII). Prior to joining Queen’s in 1990, he worked for Petro-Canada as a control applications engineer. He is an active researcher and consultant in the fields of statistical model building and process control, working with major companies ranging from biomedical devices, to metals manufacturing and chemical manufacturing processes. Jim is committed to building innovation and entrepreneurship programming at Queen’s and to growing a vibrant entrepreneurial culture in the Kingston region, working with many groups in the Kingston entrepreneurship ecosystem. Jim is cross-appointed to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and to the Dan School of Drama and Music. He collaborates in teaching and research in innovation and pedagogy in the technology and creative arts fields.

About Health Innovation Kingston (HI YGK):

As part of a FedDev Ontario investment the City of Kingston in partnership with Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College, Kingston Health Sciences Centre, and Kingston Economic Development Corporation, the project, called HI YGK, has brought some of the region’s most notable post-secondary and health care institutions together to position Kingston as a place to develop, test, and commercialize innovative solutions for the health sector. This collaboration is leveraging three technology development labs to support local R&D needs and establish new business advisory supports to help entrepreneurs and SMEs commercialize health innovations and scale up their companies.

Health Innovation Kingston (HI YGK) Backgrounder

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