Canadian governments have invested or committed over $3B for the deployment of EHRs across the country. With the help of Canada Health Infoway, jurisdictions have begun to rollout new services at the provincial and regional levels that are mostly targeted at the acute care and diagnosis settings. With the recently announced funding for EMR adoption, the community health setting becomes front and centre. It is the next frontier of eHealth solutions and one that will require new thinking and leadership. José will present findings and lessons learned from his initial work on this area and suggest directions for further investigation and investments.

 

 

José Mussi brings over 30 years of experience in architecting and implementing very large, complex and globally deployed systems. He is a recognized thought leader in Electronic Health Record solutions.  Until 2006, José was the senior group director and EHR architect for clinical domains at Canada Health Infoway, co-responsible for developing the vision and solution architecture (business, conceptual and technical) for the Pan-Canadian interoperable EHR. 

A founding partner of JRS Partners, a consulting firm dedicated to healthcare information technology, José has been the lead architect in several jurisdictional EHR initiatives across Canada. José has been closely involved with IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) activities in North America. He helped create IHE Canada and is currently its President.