Marwan Abouelela
Clinical Informatics, Project Manager IWK Health Centre Canada
Speaker bio: Marwan joined IWK Health Centre in 2017 with over twenty (20) years of diversified experience in healthcare including recent clinical informatics experience. Marwan has a clinical background as a physician and a master degree in health informatics from Dalhousie University. While working with multi-national pharmaceutical corporations like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and GSK, he accumulated more than ten (10) years of sales and marketing experience, more than five (5) years of project management involvement in hospital sector and more than three (3) years of medical affairs know-how. Marwan is inspired to put his education and experience into large scale clinical informatics and digital transformation projects to support the evolution of medical technologies and related services in the healthcare sector.
Topic: Connected Hospital Technology Solution; IWK Health Centre Model.
Presentation overview: The IWK Health Centre is a leader in developing and implementing connected healthcare technology solutions in Nova Scotia, Canada. During this session, the team will speak about the steps taken while starting their journey to digital transformation. They will share the evidence-based and proactive interventions used, the opportunities exploited, the challenges faced, and the change management approaches they went through to enable this journey.