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Following our wildly successful Digital Health and Virtual Care Day, OntarioMD is extremely pleased to begin 2021 with a 10-part series of online learning, OMD Educates: Digital Health and Virtual Care Curriculum. The sessions will be conducted by OntarioMD Peer Leaders and experts with a focus on education and clinical enhancements using digital health and virtual care tools.


Upcoming Webinars

12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

October 20, 2021

OMD Educates: Getting Good when Starting Practice: Digital Excellence and Training in the Virtual Space 

In this session participants will learn about:

  • Teaching in the virtual space

  • Choosing your digital systems from phone to EMR to tools

  • Patient communication options synchronous and asynchronous

  • Office automation options

  • Patient contributed data (collaborative care)

  • Chronic Disease Management, Prev Care, Diabetes management and care

  • Special patient populations: seniors care, palliative care

Presented by Dr. Loredana Di Santo, OMD Physician Peer Leader and Roger Mandjlekian, OMD Clinic Manager Peer Leader


Past Webinar Recordings

12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

October 20, 2021

OMD Educates: Drinking from the Firehose: How to manage the flood of information and maintain practice efficiency 

In this session participants will learn about:

  • Smooth operations in the office when multiple reports arrive via HRM

  • Flagging abnormal results

  • Reminders and searches

  • Audits of the practice: Outstanding tests, abnormals

  • Checks and balances, avoiding the Swiss Cheese effect 

Presented by Dr. Mario Elia, OntarioMD Physician Peer Leader

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8:30am - 5:00pm EST

September 30, 2021

OMD Educates: Digital Health and Virtual Care Day

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12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

OMD Educates: Virtual Care is Still Care - Tips for Better Patient Engagement  

In this session participants will learn

  • Patient readiness for virtual visits

  • Physician readiness for the virtual visit

  • Tips and tricks for first patient meetings

  • Virtual House Calls

  • User designed add-on tools to make the virtual experience better

  • Follow-Up Education

Presented by Dr. Keith Thompson, OMD Physician Peer Leader and Sydney Graham and Alies Maybee OMD Patient Leaders

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

OMD Educates: Insights4Care (i4C) Program and CPSO QI/QA  

In this session participants will learn about:

  • How i4C Advisory Services can help you achieve your quality improvement goals

  • How i4C Advisory Services hands-on support can help with the CPSO QI/QA program

  • A high-level understanding of the i4C Dashboard in Accuro and TELUS PSS EMR

Speaker: Afsoon Khazaee and Lisa Bell, OMD Practice Enhancement Consultants

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12:00pm – 1:00pm EST 

July 21, 2021

OMD Educates: The Digital Specialist 

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Speaker: Dr. Vandana Ahluwalia, Rheumatology, OntarioMD Specialist Physician Peer Leader and Dr. Mark Boulos, Neurology, OntarioMD Specialist Physician Peer Leader

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12:00pm – 1:00pm EST 

June 24, 2021



OMD Educates: Privacy and Security Q&A

This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

Speaker: Ariane Siegel, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, OntarioMD

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12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

June 23, 2021



OMD Educates: Privacy and Security Webinar 

This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

Speaker: Ariane Siegel, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, OntarioMD

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12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

June 16, 2021



OMD Educates: Virtual Health in Pediatrics

This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

Speaker: Dr. Dina Kulik, Founder and Director of Kidcrew and Pediatrician 

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June 10, 2021

OMD Educates: Privacy and Security Q&A 

This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

Speaker: Ariane Siegel, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, OntarioMD

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June 10, 2021

OMD Educates: Privacy and Security Webinar  

This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

Speaker: Ariane Siegel, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, OntarioMD

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May 26, 2021



OMD Educates: Diversity and Inclusion in our use of technology for practice

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Speakers: Physician Peer Leader, Dr. Meera Shah; Physician Peer Leader, Dr. Lee Donohue; and Nurse Practitioner Peer Leader, Ibrahim Omar

This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

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April 28, 2021

The Power of EMR: More impactful than your stethoscope!

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Speakers: Dr. Meera Shah, Physician Peer Leader, Dr. Paul Cano, Physician Peer Leader and Roger Mandjlekian, Clinic Manager Peer Leader

This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

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March 24, 2021

OMD Educates: Virtual Care for all the Tasks of an Office

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This session is brought to you in partnership with Canada Health Infoway and the Ontario Medical Association.

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February 24, 2021

OMD Educates: Privacy and Cybersecurity for Your Practice

Speaker: Ariane Siegel, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, OntarioMD

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January 27, 2021


OMD Educates - The Reimagined Visit: Virtual Care as Core to Practice with COVID and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Darren Larsen and Dr. Zainab Abdurrahman

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This Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 2 Mainpro+ credits.

Physicians must complete the evaluation to receive their CME certificate. At the end of the curriculum participants should have a better understanding and knowledge of digital health and virtual care tools and how to best implement to benefit their practice and patient care.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the SOGC. You may claim a maximum of 8 hours (credits are automatically calculated) following the completion of the entire OMD Educates Digital Health and Virtual Care course in October, 2021. It is important that you fill out the evaluation (link provided during session) for each session to confirm attendance and receive your certificate. 

How to view webinars:

  1. Click on the Teams Meeting link above, it will prompt you to open the live event. If you have Microsoft Teams installed on your computer already, follow the prompt to Open Microsoft Teams. If you do not have Microsoft Teams installed…. 

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