Ed Brown is the Founder and CEO of Ontario Telemedicine, one of the largest, most active and integrated Telemedicine networks in the world. We explore ways Telemedicine and Digital Health is (sometimes slowly) transforming Healthcare for Canadians.

A conversation with KidsHelpPhone Vice President Alisa Simon (Service Innovation & Chief Youth Officer) about the evolution of Kids Help Phone into apps, online services & text-messaging in order to achieve their goal: to help children and youth in crisis across Canada.

Seema Nayani, practicing pharmacist & Pharmacist Leader at Canada Health Infoway working on PrescribeIT digital prescription service describes the goals, priorities & values behind PrescribeIT, a digital prescription system in Canada.

Aidan Scott wants to make mental health and digital health more understood and accessible. We discuss the possibilities of digital health in overcoming limitations of our healthcare system, and the need for transparency, inclusivity and regulations to guide the future of care.

Julie Drury (Twitter) is a caregiver, patient advocate, bereaved mom, inaugural chair of the Ontario Minister’s Patient and Family Advisory Council, a speaker & a runner. Julie occupies a unique intersection of patient and policymaking & shared her insights with us at the beginning of Digital Health Week 2018 (Nov 12, 2018).

Victor Montori is a clinician and researcher who believes a revolution of kindness & care is necessary to address corruption & dehumanizing industrialization in healthcare.

Alika Lafontaine is a social-media savvy physician and healthcare advocate interested in systems change, and the social determinants of health. Web: AlikaMD  | Twitter @AlikaMD “With the advances in technology and the way we transfer knowledge…it’s now achievable to create change in systems (and) mindsets…Patients, especially Indigenous patients, are feeling more and more that they have a voice, and that …

Jane Thornton (Twitter) is an MD, Olympian & World Champion in Rowing. She is also founder of @MyActivIngrednt and an advocate for physical fitness and activity as a pillar of health and healthcare. Physical inactivity has been identified as a global pandemic: the fourth leading risk factor for death, worldwide. Is it time to start prescribing physical fitness? Show notes: Running man: …

Sir Michael Marmot, past President, British Medical Association, Chair of the World Health Organization’s commission on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) joins us to discuss his seminal research. Released on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the UK’s National Health Service. We discuss the changing roles and targets of governments in creating better health, not simply care, and …

Kidney cancer survivor, health policy advisor and patient engagement advocate Dave deBronkart discusses responsive design as metaphor for co-designed patient care, digital health, patient empowerment & reducing medical error, while keeping healthcare healthy by embracing patients as partners.