Canada Health Infoway has named Graham W.S. Scott as chair of its board of directors.
Infoway, with headquarters in Montreal, is a not-for-profit organization that collaborates with Canada's provincial governments and territories, healthcare providers, and technology providers to accelerate the use of electronic health records in Canada.
Scott, a member of the Order of Canada, has served as Ontario's deputy minister for health and as the interim CEO of Cancer Care Ontario. He served for six years as chairman of the board of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) of Ottawa, an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential data and analysis on Canada's health system and its citizens.
Brian Postl, MD, dean of medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, has been appointed to replace Scott at CIHI. Postl is also board chair of the Manitoba Health Research Council and Canadian Health Services Research Foundation in Ottawa.
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