Mr. Don Newsham is the CEO of COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association, the 1600 member association taking health informatics mainstream in Canada. His leadership is focused on advancing COACH as the voice for the health informatics profession in Canada and building the professionalism, practices and adoption of health informatics across the Canadian health care system.

Don is a health care executive, senior consultant, national and international health information and technology leader, featured e-Health conference speaker and a former CIO , CFO and Health Practice Director with over 35 years’ experience in Canadian and global healthcare, both in the public and private sectors.

He also currently undertakes numerous standards roles on behalf of Canada at ISO/TC215 as standard developer, expert lead and Head of Delegation, at the Canadian Standards Collaborative and Partnership and as a member of the international Joint Initiative Council of collaborating international standards development organizations.