Event Speaker
Irene Ma, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP, RDMS, RDCS, FAIUM
Professor of Medicine, John A. Buchanan Chair in General Internal Medicine
University of Calgary
As the clinical co-chair of the HIMSS-SIIM-AIUM POCUS Workgroup, Dr. Ma is a practicing general internal medicine physician, Professor of Medicine and the John A. Buchanan Chair in General Internal Medicine at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Ma received her MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from Stanford University, a PhD in Medical Education from the University of Calgary and completed an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is the Chair and Founding Member of the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound group.
Sessions
HIMSS-SIIM-AIUM Collaborative Point of Care Ultrasound Best Practices Workgroup: Governance, Pre-deployment, and Deployment at Scale
Overview of the work being done by the HSA POCUS workgroup and the white papers that are being produced. We'll cover the structure of the workgroup, governance of a POCUS program, pre-deployment planning for a healthcare system to ensure the right players and components are in place, and the deployment of point of care ultrasound.…