03/20/2026
Our team had a great time attending the Digital Health Canada Ontario Conference yesterday, where one message came through clearly: digital transformation in healthcare isn’t just about technology or policy, it’s about people. The keynote from Matt Anderson and Deborah Richardson emphasized the importance of building systems centred on patient care, grounded in the realities of the challenges we’re trying to solve.
There’s growing clarity that digital infrastructure must be treated as foundational, not a side initiative. It enables better access, reduces duplication, and supports providers in meaningful ways. We also heard a strong push toward a more connected ecosystem rather than a single system, alongside a focus on simplification and clearer roadmaps to enable more scalable, “plug-and-play” solutions.
Insights from Alexis Villa and Glen Kearns strongly reflected the work we do at Amplify Care. Alexis highlighted that transformation lives or dies in implementation, and that success requires a dedicated layer to ensure solutions are not just deployed, but truly adopted. Glen reinforced this with the concept of “Day 2”—the ongoing optimization that’s critical for long-term impact but often overlooked.
Overall, it was a strong reminder that meaningful digital transformation doesn’t come from the tools themselves, but from how well we support people, providers, patients, and teams to integrate and use them in practice.