Healthcare Management Forum – September 2026 Edition
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The September 2026 edition of Healthcare Management Forum (HMF) is devoted to the Pan-Canadian Health Data Charter, which was conceived as a vehicle to foster principle-based and evidential strategic health data cooperation across all Canadian jurisdictions.
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In this edition:
GUEST EDITOR
The Guest Editor for this edition is Dr. Ewan Affleck, CM, BSc, MDCM, CCFP, who was a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy and currently serves as the Senior Medical Advisor - Health Informatics, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
WEBINAR
Join the webinar on September 22, 2026 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT with Harmony Johnson, MHA, the Vice President of Indigenous Wellness & Reconciliation at Providence Health Care, as she walks through what Indigenous data sovereignty means, the rights frameworks it rests on, and how Indigenous-led governance structures, data stewardship, and stronger self-identification processes can enable the ethical use of Indigenous health data to monitor inequities and improve care. This session will help organizations to work with Indigenous data in everyday practices, and is moderated by Dr. Ewan Affleck, CM, BSc, MDCM, CCFP.
BLOG
Read the blog written by Bartha M. Knoppers, PhD, as she discusses the harmonization of health data governance, oversight, and policy and offers three potential legal mechanisms to help empower organizations to steward health data for future use.
VIDEO
Watch the author insights video by Claire Snyman, BSc, PGD, as she examines the first principle of the Pan-Canadian Health Data Charter and how Canada can realize significant gains in health equity, clinical safety, and population health by moving from an “ego-centric” system of institutional data to a model that is “eco-centric” and emphasizes shared stewardship.
ARTICLE
Read the article by Roma Dhamanaskar, PhD, as she and her co-author explore how Canada’s health information systems can be informed by the views of the public, raising important questions about what constituencies make up “the public” and what inclusion looks like in practice. They use health data justice as a theoretical anchor for good practice; an approach that promotes meaningful involvement and prevents tokenism and community harm.
ARTICLE
Read the article by Steven Tam, LLM, as he and his co-authors address how artificial intelligence can reduce the siloed nature of nursing documentation across care settings. They draw on institutional examples and current evidence to fully realize the promise of common standards in practice without creating an undue burden on clinicians.
ARTICLE
Read the article by Angela Power, MHE, as she and her co-author reframe the ethical data use of data as a relational practice that supports trust, transparency, participation, and shared accountability across institutions, patients, and communities. It is grounded in the seventh principle the Pan-Canadian Health Data Charter that examines tensions between risk-averse data protection and the need to enable responsible data use for care, research, and system improvement.
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