Digital Health Canada award winners announced

HALIFAX – The winners of the 2026 Digital Health Canada Awards were announced this week in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the e-Health26 Conference and Tradeshow’s Awards Ceremony and Reception.

The Digital Health Canada Awards celebrate the innovators, leaders, and change makers driving digital health forward across Canada.

Individual awards include the Steven Huesing Scholarship, Digital Health Canada Future Leader Award, Digital Health Canada Leadership Award. Team/Project awards in 2026 honoured teams who excelled in the following area: Clinical and Care Delivery Transformation Award; Data, Interoperability, and Infrastructure Award; and AI, Innovation, and Emerging Technologies Award.

2026 Digital Health Canada Leadership Award Winners

• Dr. Chandi Chandrasena (pictured left), Chief Medical Officer, OntarioMD
• Jeremy Petch (pictured right), Chief AI & Digital Planning Officer, Trillium Health Partners

2026 Clinical and Care Delivery Transformation Award Winners

• Nova Scotia Health Authority: Virtual Urgent and Emergent Care Nova Scotia. Team Lead: Joanne Sanford, Director of Policy and Planning, Virtual Urgent and Emergent Care
• Virtual Hallway: Supporting Synchronous Provider to Provider Virtual Consultation. Team Lead: Justin Hartlen, CEO, Clinical and Care Delivery Transformation

2026 Data, Interoperability, and Infrastructure Winner

• The Patient Timeline: Enabling a Successful Digital Transformation through Data, Interoperability, and Scalable Infrastructure. Team Lead: Dr. Justin Cross, Director of Digital Health, CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de l’île de Montréal

2026 AI, Innovation, and Emerging Technologies Winner

• Provincial Health Authority (PHSA): BC SCRIBE Trial. Co-Team Leads: Dr. Angel Arnaout, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, PHSA & Naomi Brooks, Executive Director, Health Information Management, Lower Mainland Health Authorities, BC

2026 Stephen Huesing Scholarship Award Recipients

• Mutian Ding, University of Toronto
• Karishini Ramamoorthi, University of Toronto

2026 Digital Health Canada Future Leader Award Winners

• Brian Lo, Project Manager, Strategic Digital & AI Initiatives, Unity Health Toronto
• Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Assistant Professor, McGill University

Thank you to the volunteer adjudicators
Digital Health Canada Award nominations are reviewed by a volunteer team of adjudicators. Nominations are first assessed for eligibility and then ranked using an objective scoring system based on established nomination criteria. Thank you to the 2026 volunteer adjudicators: Akorede Adekoya (Fraser Health); Abbas Zavar (OntarioMD), Ted Scott (Hamilton Health Sciences), Markian Bahniuk (Alberta Innovates), Samantha Liscio (Kainos), Cassie Frazer (Stratford Group), Emily Hogan (Accenture).