Kelly Lane, BSc

Kelly Lane is a Project Director at Techna who has provided strategic and project management leadership for the development and implementation of enterprise-wide solutions and multi-jurisdictional IT initiatives for over 15 years at the University Health Network. Kelly has expertise with the Canadian health IT landscape from leading national multi-year projects in collaboration with organizations such as Canada Health Infoway and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. Recently, she has been involved with developing and implementing machine learning algorithms as part of a clinical decision support tool implemented in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Kelly is currently working closely with an international industry partner to manage the co-development of an Oncology Information System. This innovative co-development project brings together UHN clinicians, researchers and industry to define and build a next-generation oncology system that can support all domains of cancer care including concurrent and adaptive therapies.

At UHN Kelly has led much of the initial work around electronic clinical documentation and her work on the development of the Electronic Medication Information Transfer Tool (EMITT) helped set the standard for medication reconciliation at a national and international level. Kelly’s projects have won several awards including the Best International Best Practice Award at the 2006 OHA convention for the University Health Network’s electronic Discharge Summary.