Clinician Leadership Award
Awarded To: Dr. Diamond Kassum, Chief Medical Information Officer, Manitoba eHealth
Awarded For: A clinician who has shown outstanding leadership in advancing the use of health information communication technology (ICT) and informatics in clinical practice resulting in improved provider and patient experiences and outcomes. Complete criteria
COACH Board member Elizabeth Keller & Dr. Diamond Kassum
This award pays tribute to Dr. Kassum’s passion for emerging technology, along with the Manitoba eHealth Chief Medical Information Officer’s vision for the role of the electronic medical record in improving efficiencies in clinical practice, allowing Manitoba to leap forward with many vital clinical IT systems.
An Associate Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of Manitoba and clinically based at St. Boniface General Hospital, Dr. Kassum’s extensive accomplishments include 32 years of administrative experience. Focused largely in the acute care environment where he has practiced for decades, he has championed and/or led clinical transformation through the implementation of many major, highly complex provincial systems such as those for:
Radiology Information/Picture Archiving Communications;
Hospital Information (HISP) – Registration & Clinical Manager & Long-Term Care; Emergency Department Information;
Surgical Information Management.
This award nomination description about Dr. Kassum’s involvement with HISP reflects his impactful leadership: “I was able to observe firsthand the huge respect for Dr. Kassum coming not only from his colleagues, but from every single person involved on this project. As the Chair of the HISP project steering committee, Dr. Kassum chose not only to be involved with hospital and project executives, but also with frontline workers and every member of the project team (over 200 people)…Dr. Kassum is always interested to see how the use of ‘new’ for healthcare technologies such as speech recognition, electronic patient orders sets, medication and blood transfusions bar-coding, RFIDs and mobile devices could improve patient safety and outcomes. Even though some of these concepts are still on the initiating stages, his vision of the future electronic clinical world is very inspiring to everybody around.”
Dr. Kassum tirelessly endorses the use of IT systems in healthcare by presenting at national and international conferences and events, chairing IT project steering and clinical committees, role-modeling the adoption and advance use of IT systems, writing articles for medical publications and leading the Manitoba Physician Peer-to-Peer EPR Network. Among his colleagues, Dr. Kassum’s enthusiasm and determination always provide major encouragement and optimism. His leadership style inspires his colleagues, peers and students to embrace the use of ICT in day-to-day clinical practice.
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