FHIR® North 2026 Agenda
From Standards to Scale: Making FHIR Work in the Real World
Day 1 — Tuesday, October 27
Day 1
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM • Opening
Welcome Remarks
With Jeff McIsaac
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM • Collaborative Session
HALO: From Specification to Implementation and Scale
Colin Kent-Shephard (HHS) and Prasanthy Kudrati, Ian MacLeod, Daniel Thamotharem (Ontario Health)
FHIR Academy Track (30 min)
Code Camp Track (45 min)
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | FA1
A Clinical Data Utility for Accelerating FHIR Interoperability
Karim Keshavjee
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | FA2
From Interoperability to Intelligence: How FHIR, Conversational AI, and Pathway Analysis Turn Healthcare Data into Better Decisions
Kseniia Nikolaienko
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM | CC1
Building the Trust Layer for FHIR at Scale: Security, Consent, and Directory Infrastructure for Canadian Health Exchange
David Pyke and Duncan Weatherston
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM • Networking Pause
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM • Networking Pause
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM | FA3
SQL on FHIR: Querying Real-World FHIR Data
Nikolai Ryzhikov
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | CC2
Imaging on FHIR – The ever evolving synergy between FHIR and DICOM
Mohannad Hussain
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM • Main Afternoon Networking Break
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM | FA4
Doing IGs right – best practices for developing FHIR specifications
Lloyd McKenzie
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM | FA5
So you built a FHIR IG. How do you get it used?
Allana Cameron
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM | CC3
Configuring Master Data Management in HAPI-FHIR
Jason Roberts
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM • Networking Pause
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM • Networking Pause
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | FA6
Human Readiness: The Missing Layer in Digital Health Transformation
Sheena Yap Chan
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM | CC4
Provider Identity and Access Management: Implementing a scalable, standards-based approach
Rob Nickerson
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM • Panel Discussion
Shared Services for Data Quality
Karim Keshavjee, Jason Roberts, Rob Nickerson
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM • Closing
Day 1 Wrap Up with BvO
Day 2 — Wednesday, October 28
Day 2FHIR Academy Track (30 min)
Code Camp Track (45 min)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | FA1
FHIR SDC Beyond Forms: Voice AI Interviews for PROMs
Vitalii Banchenko
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | FA2
Flipping the Script: Using FHIR to Expand Ocean’s Patient Engagement Market
Yaron Derman and Imanma Egeonu
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM • Networking Pause
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM | FA3
From FHIR Exchange to Shared Meaning: Closing Semantic Gaps with CACDI and CIHI’s Pan-Canadian Semantic Common Data Model
Emerald Liang
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | CC1
How to build and test computable care guidelines with FHIR and CQL
Ward Weistra
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | CC2
Intro to Resource Validation with the HL7 FHIR Validator
David Otasek
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM • Networking Pause
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM • Panel Discussion
“If FHIR is so easy, why is it so hard?”
With FHIR North Committee Members: Russ Buchanan, Joanie Harper, Lloyd McKenzie, James Agnew, Gavin Tong
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM • Main Lunch / Networking Break
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | FA4
Designing FHIR-First Care Coordination Before the Pilot: Lessons from an Autism Digital Health Startup in Newfoundland and Labrador
Rushil Deshwal
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | FA5
FHIR Is a Two-Sided Network: Creating Positive Provider Net Benefit at Both Ends
Karim Keshavjee, Saqib Ahmad and Ijaz Rauf
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM | CC3
From Speech to Condition: A Governed Resolver Pattern for Populating FHIR Resources from Ambient Data
Brian Dillon
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM • Networking Pause
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM • Networking Pause
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM | FA6
Connecting the Pregnancy Journey: Building a Canadian FHIR Foundation for Perinatal Care
Sophie Outar and Mike Harrington
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM • Networking Pause
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM | CC4
Voice Native Smart Forms
Ilya Beda
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM • Networking Pause
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM • Collaborative Q&A
The Future of Voice-Native AI and Structured Data in Healthcare
Ilya Beda and Vitalii Banchenko
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM • Conference Closing
Conference Wrap Up with Sherif Abdou | Pre-Recorded Message from Minister Solomon