Call for Abstracts
OMD Educates: Digital Health Conference 2026
Turning Technology into Time - Creating Capacity in the Community
October 1-2, 2026 | Automotive Building at Exhibition Place Toronto
Call for Abstracts Opens |
Abstracts Submission Deadline |
Notification of Abstract Acceptance |
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January 16 2026 | February 27, 2026, 5:00 p.m. | May 2026 |
Call for Abstracts
OntarioMD (OMD) is looking for bold and innovative ideas that demonstrate how technology is transforming community practice. This could be groundbreaking research, a successful pilot of a digital or AI tool, or a simple efficiency hack that has changed your workday.
OMD invites abstract submissions across four streams: three streams for clinical presenters and one sponsored stream for vendors. Content must focus on community-based clinicians, including family doctors, specialists and nurse practitioners, highlighting the use of OMD-certified EMRs, and integrated digital health technologies and tools.
This call is for all community-based clinicians, clinical leaders, researchers and innovators using health technology to drive meaningful change in our healthcare system. The OMD Educates Digital Health Conference is an unmatched opportunity for clinicians to share their tips and expertise with colleagues to digitally optimize their EMR and other innovative health technology to enhance patient care and realize more value for their practice.
The conference’s objectives are to educate attendees on the evolving use of health technology to:
Support quick and easy access to patient data and information for better clinical decision-making
Communicate and connect with healthcare professionals efficiently
Optimize patient care, practice efficiency, and professional satisfaction for clinicians, staff and patients
Save time creating efficiencies and increasing capacity
Community-based clinicians (family doctors, specialists and nurse practitioners), clinic staff, IT staff, clinic managers, executive directors, Ontario Health Teams (OHTs), Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and policymakers.
Sessions in each stream will be accredited for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for family doctors and specialists and nurse practitioners.
All All submissions must include a signed Conflict of Interest Form to be eligible for CME credits for attendees. Please download the form and submit it with your proposal.
To help attendees select the session most relevant to them,
each abstract must include a time-savings estimate. In addition to theory, we want to know exactly how much time your solution saves for the clinic. OMD will share your estimate in the conference program to help attendees prioritize the sessions that will help them most.
Guidelines for counting the time your solution saves
Per Encounter: (e.g.,
"Saves 4 minutes per patient through automated intake")
Per Week: (e.g.,
"Reduces billing administration by 3 hours weekly")
Per Year: (e.g.,
"Cuts 50 hours of annual staff follow-up calls")
To ensure your abstract aligns with the conference’s goals, please ensure your submission addresses:
The Problem - the specific inefficiency or barrier addressed
The Tool/Workflow - the digital health / AI solution used
The Impact - data or anecdotal evidence showing time saved, improvements in access, communication, or clinician/patient satisfaction
This stream focuses on using best practices and/or widely used technologies with a positive impact on patient care, such as EMRs and other integrated solutions.
Advancing Patient Care Through Technology Example
Using EMR data to identify care gaps; improving patient engagement and education; using clinical decision support during visits; using technology to manage patient populations and complex conditions and promote coordinated care; managing changes to workflow triggered by technology.
This stream focuses on "creating capacity" and restoring work-life balance by eliminating manual tasks.
Digital Practice Optimization and Enhancing Professional Satisfaction Example
Advanced use of technology: proactive panel management; streamlining workflows and leveraging technology to facilitate documentation; enhancing practice efficiency and/or communications; maximizing time management to schedule appointments and decrease wait times; facilitating information retrieval at the point of care; optimizing billing process
Use of training and resources: Privacy and security training; business continuity plans; disaster recovery plans; EMR data retention and retirement; data governance in a digital health world; using EMRs during CPSO assessments
This stream focuses on emerging technologies for clinicians to use to enhance patient care or realize practice efficiencies.
Leveraging Emerging technologies in community-based clinics Example
Using AI to free up clinician and staff time; augmenting clinical decision making; providing patients better access to care; empowering patients in their own care; employing mobile apps, secure communications/messaging, quality/population management dashboards, patient portals, and interfaces with medical devices; improving EMR functionality
Sponsor/Vendor Stream: (Short Snappers)
This stream provides the opportunity for startup vendors to showcase their businesses and products.
Startup Eligibility: Must have been founded within the last five years, $500K or less in revenue and have no more than 10 employees.
Does your company have an innovative solution that may help clinician practices? Do you need a partner like OMD to help increase awareness of your product or service? Interested in being front and centre before hundreds of clinicians and digital health decision-makers?
Submit an abstract on the value of your product or service.
Short Snapper Example
Novel use of digital health solutions, including certified EMRs, AI, virtual care, or other technologies, that can improve practice efficiency and patient care, whether as standalone products or integrated with certified EMRs
Abstracts from vendors will not be accepted as part of the accredited curriculum.
Note: If you are not a startup and wish to present, please see OMD's sponsorship prospectus and email us at
omd.events@ontariomd.com to inquire about availability.
Lecture Session
- 30 minutes, additional 15 minutes for questions (500 word maximum, 2 presenter limit)
Short Snappers
10 minutes, additional 5 minutes for questions (500 word maximum, 2 presenter limit). Short snappers focus on the use of new products or technologies (special $899 fee for small businesses).
While every effort will be made to accommodate requests for breakout or panel sessions, OMD reserves the right to change the session format (for example, from panel to breakout session or short snapper).
Vendors, or submitting an abstract promoting a specific product or service, should apply under the sponsored stream. OMD reserves the right to move submitted abstracts to a different stream.
Subject matter must be educational to be eligible for consideration as sessions will be CME-accredited by the regulatory colleges. Sessions aim to increase clinicians' knowledge of the mature use of certified EMRs or technology integrated with EMRs.
Vendors, government agencies, and technology companies wishing to promote a product for sale to clinicians may submit abstracts only under the Short Snappers sponsored stream ($899 fee, if approved).
All submissions must include a signed Conflict of Interest Form to be eligible for CME credits for attendees.
Call for Abstracts Opens |
Abstracts Submission Deadline |
Notification of Abstract Acceptance |
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January 16 2026 | February 27, 2026, 5:00 p.m. | May 2026 |
For questions about abstracts or to discuss additional opportunities to showcase your product or service at the conference, please email
omd.events@ontariomd.com.