Data sharing and privacy (DSP) implementation supports 

RISE continues to offer drop-in sessions (30 minutes each), twice a month through January 2027, where you can pose DSP-related questions to our DSP support team. The team includes three experts in the field:

1. Daniel Michaluk, National Co-Leader, Privacy and Cybersecurity, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
2. Katherine Kresta, Senior Consultant, MD+A Health Solutions
3. Lauren Black - General Counsel & Chief Legal, Privacy and Compliance Officer, VHA Home HealthCare.

We are also offering training workshops (60 minutes each), with six in the series to be run from mid-September through mid-December, where you can learn more about DSP, including via particular use cases, and again with the involvement of our DSP experts, Daniel, Katherine and Lauren. 

Lauren will be available for all of the sessions and workshops, Dan will be available for all but one drop-in sessions (on 21 October) and two training workshops (on 17 November and 15 December), and Katherine will be available for all but one drop-in session (22 September).

We are also planning a privacy toolkit launch webinar on 4 November, 11am-12 pm.

We hope you will register for these optional learning opportunities via the online registration page, where you can choose to attend all sessions, or make selections for specific sessions based on your availability. They are also listed on the OHT supports events calendar, which has specific webpages set up for each of the privacy toolkit launch webinar, the drop-in sessions, and the training workshops.

Please note that we are also:

1. in the process of learning from the results of a recommended OHT capabilities self-assessment, which is now closed
2. hosting an online community of practice in Quorum that you can now join
3. conducting a ‘pulse check’ on November 23, and again in early 2027.