HIMs In ActionSue Schneider, BA, CHIM, CPHIMS-CA

Current Role• Director, eHealth Standards• Architecture, Standards and Planning • eHealth Ontario

• Focus on EHR for Ontario– Data Exchange – Terminology

• Interoperability Standards– Data – Content– Terminology

• Systems Integrator– Blueprint– Connectivity Strategy– Interoperability Standards Strategy – EHR Roadmap

Career Path

• Student in 10 physician medical clinic• BA – Social Science – Western• Diploma – Health Records Admin – St. Michael’s• CHIM Certification • Veterinary Teaching Hospital – Guelph• Peel Memorial Hospital – Brampton• William Osler Health Centre – 3 sites• Trillium Health Centre – 2 sites• Graduate Certificate – HI Standards – U Sherbrooke• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care • eHealth Ontario• CPHIMS-CA Certification – (CPHIMS & CPHIMS-CA Exams)

Career Path

• Student in 10 physician medical clinic– Various roles across 6 summers – reception, filing, seating patients, lunch for

physician management meetings, OHIP billing,, file management, transcribing referrals, consults, diagnostic imaging and minor surgical reports

• BA – Social Science – Western– Included records management, decision support, and information systems

• Diploma – Health Records Admin – St. Michael’s– Placements in hospitals: teaching, acute and veterinary teaching

• CHIM Certification – Exam written and results arrived a few weeks after started work

• Veterinary Teaching Hospital – Guelph– Large and small animals - registration, billing, records, transcription, coding,

data searches for students and veterinarians, data submission to Cornell, use of an early version of what has evolved into SNOMED® for veterinary use

Career Path

• Peel Memorial Hospital – Brampton– Started in Patient Registration and moved into Health Information

Management; various management roles• William Osler Health Centre – 3 sites

– Georgetown, Brampton, and Etobicoke locations; Director for Health Information Management

• Trillium Health Centre – 2 sites– Mississauga and Queensway locations; Senior Advisor Data Custodian in

Health Information Management• Graduate Certificate – HI Standards – U Sherbrook

– One year online webinars and assignments• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

– Seconded to eHealth Program part-time while at Trillium Health Centre, and then moved to Information Management Strategy and Policy Branch; returned to Trillium Health Centre when secondment ended

Career Path• eHealth Ontario

– Lead, eHealth Standards, Terminology• Focus on terminology standards for Ontario, and participation in

Infoway Standards Collaborative

– Director, eHealth Standards• Focus on Interoperability Standards, including data exchange and

terminology for eHealth in Ontario; participation in various governance committees and collaboration with MOHLTC, Infoway, Ontario MD, eHealth Ontario, and other external stakeholders

• CPHIMS-CA Certification – Review of materials through lunch time group study– CPHIMS & CPHIMS-CA Exams

• Looking to find time for a graduate level degree soon

Growth and Opportunities

• Leadership in Interoperability Standards for eHealth in Ontario– Promotion and advocacy for interoperability and

approval of standards – Advancing the early involvement of eHealth

Standards in projects and business areas– Responding to Architecture Program Office requests

for information, advice, support – growing expertise– Monitoring the standards and healthcare to

strategically align and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders

Growth and Opportunities• Experience with terminology and document modeling tools and

standards• Contribute to and use of international and national standards• Opportunity to define processes and best practices for standards

lifecycle and terminology management • Exciting work with clinical and technical experts• Participation in committees, governance, and strategies• Extension and evolution of HIM/HI experience, competencies and

roles• Leadership of a very talented and inspiring team – specialized• Relationship management – mentoring, and networking• Continuous learning and stimulating work • Making a difference to health and wellness in Ontario