Welcomes

iDeaWORKS is a Mohawk College initiative linking innovation, entrepreneurship and applied research

Innovation—Focuses on improving productivity, efficiency, and value creation in the service sector.

Entrepreneurship—Encourages entrepreneurs- in-the-making through The Hatchery, a pre-incubator that provides guidance, facilities and seed money for student business ventures.

Applied Research – Faculty and students work with businesses and other community partners in finding innovative solutions real-world challenges. Partners benefit from our expertise, technology and facilities; students learn practical skills and build relationships with future employers.

Students and faculty work on collaborative projects with industry and community partners

• Mobile Technology

• Advanced Materials

• Health Care

• Software Development

• Energy

• Service Innovation

Applied Research continues to expand

• Projects focused on solving real world problems using pragmatic solutions

• Leveraging a depth of Faculty knowledge

• Work performed by in class, course release, and co-op students

• Showcase Mohawk Graduates to industry partners

• Large project portfolio (past , present and future)

Applied Research Projects (2010/2011)

Advanced Materials15%

Chemical5%

Energy20%

Health Technology40%

Mobile Technology20%

Active & Proposed Projects 2010/2011

AR Team Involvement

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Team Members per Semester

Staff Faculty Co-op Students

MARC-HI Advisory Council

• Canada Health Infoway Rep – Ron Parker• Clinician Rep – Dr. Marion Lyver, Healthy

Futures• Jurisdictional Rep – Roger Girard, Chief

Information Officer Manitoba eHealth• Vendor Reps – Gary Folker, xwave and Sam

Chebib, Nightingale• Health System Management Rep – Mark Fuller,

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

EHR SOLUTION (EHRS)

EHR INFOSTRUCTURE (EHRi)

EHR ViewerPoint of Service

ApplicationPoint of Service

Application

EHRSLocator

Longitudinal Record Services

Health Information Access Layer

AncillaryData &

Services

HealthInformation

DataWarehouse

EHRData &

Services

RegistriesData &

Services

Key EHRS Architecture Concepts

Applied Research• Solve a practical problem• May include:

– Background research– Build prototype (reference

implementation)– Documentation– Test modules– Build a solution or define a

process

Scientific Research• Discover new knowledge

using the scientific method– Background research– Hypothesis– Design experiment– Gather data– Analyze data– Conclusion

Projects Funded By NSERC

• Building the Canadian Electronic Health Record Solution Reference Implementation

• Techniques to simplify and optimize HL7v3 messages

• Software technologies to simplify connections to the Reference system

• Integration of components into the EHRS

Why is the EHR important?• Healthcare professionals make clinical decisions based on

knowledge• Better knowledge translates to better care• Knowledge starts with accurate, relevant clinical information• The EHR creates the capability to share relevant clinical

information• The 5 Rs of the EHR:– The right information– About the right client– Available to the right person– In the right place– At the right time

Clients/Patients

Pharmacy

Laboratory

DiagnosticHospital Emergency

Homecare

Community Care Center

Clinic Emergency Services

Specialist Clinic

Locations of Electronic Clinical Data Today: 40,000 Systems to Integrate

Canada Health Infoway

• Canada Health Infoway is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose members are Canada's 14 federal, provincial and territorial Deputy Ministers of Health

• Infoway is Canada's catalyst for collaborative change to accelerate the use of electronic health information systems and electronic health records (EHRs) across the country

HL7v3 API – Everest Framework

• Everest Framework– Improve experience with v3 messages• Easy to create structures

– Parameterized constructors– Hide fixed members

• Fixed value sets– Use enumerations instead of strings– Business names instead of mnemonics

• Format structures (ie:Date/Time) for the developer– Improve code re-usability

EHR Project Scope & Guidelines

• Research & Development Phase (overlaps the other phases)– Health System Management– EHRi Load/stress testing– Mobile eHealth technologies– Personal Health Records– Innovative Privacy & Security Technologies

• Future– Drug domain– Diagnostic Imaging domain– Public Health Surveillance– National e-Claims Standard

EHR Infostructure:Conceptual Architecture

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ecGroup Inc.

MARC-HI Partners

Healthy Futures

Our success in health informatics demonstrated our leadership in software technology

In 2007, Mohawk launches the Applied Research Centre in Health Informatics

(MARC-HI)

MARC-HI becomes the home for Canada’s EHR System reference

implementation

In 2010, MARC-HI wins the prestigious Canada Health Infoway Standards

Collaborative Peer Award

Mohawk’s centre is used as a model for health informatics at the University of

KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa

Mohawk’s iDeaWORKS gears up for an mHealth project to build a working

protoype of an SMS-based interface to jurisdictional infrastructure

Mohawk wins $2.5M grant to implement an architecture to integrate electronic health records across Canada

As an energetic, passionate, youth-centric group

• Youth

• Passion

• Energy

• Excellence