Current Media Releases

Newfoundland Gains Broad Access to Privacy & Security Guidelines

Newfoundland and Labrador healthcare organizations now have free, direct access to the COACH "Guidelines for the Protection of Health Information" through a new jurisdictional licensing agreement.

HIP Role Profiles: Meeting the Need for HR and Career Planning

Systems-based human resources planning is essential to deal with the serious risk of health informatics labour and skills shortages. COACH is responding to this challenge with the new "Health Informatics Professional Role Profiles."

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Making a Difference in Canadian Healthcare

CHIA Awards Salute HI Excellence in Emerging Professionals to National Leaders and Companies

Major News! Serious Need for More Professionals, Broader Skills

A landmark study, released today, shows that Canada will need more HI and health information management professionals over the next five years and many of them need will need to broaden their skills. This has prompted a call for immediate development of a related human resource strategy.

Fast Forward to Healthcare 2020 at Fall Forum Nov. 18 -19

(Toronto,ON): The COACH Fall Forum Healthcare 2.0: Moving from Implementation to Impact will fast forward you to the patient-centric system envisioned for 2020 and delve into the heart of the challenges on the journey there. The Forum will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto Nov. 18 - 19.

Senior HI Executives from Quebec Welcomed to CHIEF

Senior health informatics (HI) Executives of Quebec-based public sector Healthcare organizations can now explore CHIEF™: Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum with the newly translated Executive Membership Package.

National Student Forum for Health Informatics Launched

(WATERLOO & TORONTO, ON)– The National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI) and COACH announce a collaborative initiative to bring together students interested in health informatics across Canada through a National Student Forum (NSF).

2009 Privacy & Security Guidelines: Essential on the Road to the EHR

(QUÉBEC CITY, QC)– What do hospitals do with old X-rays? Who can access blood test results? The new 2009 COACH "Guidelines for the Protection of Health Information" is THE privacy, security and confidentiality resource for dealing with these and many other types of personal health information.

CHIEF: Unique New Membership Forum Welcomes HI Executives

(QUÉBEC CITY, QC)– The vital role that health informatics executives play in transforming and bettering Canadian healthcare is the driving force behind the new CHIEF: Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum (le forum canadien des cadres en informatique de la sante).

New Career Matrix: Vital to Health Care and the Profession

Where do you fit on the new COACH Health Informatics Professional Career Matrix? Published in the updated "HIP Core Competencies", 66 jobs are shown in the Emerging Professional, Competent, Proficient, Expert and Master levels on the matrix.