As Canada’s health care system struggles with workforce challenges, surgical backlogs, wait times, and optimizing unnecessary interventions, technology adoption and the shift to delivering digital care improves access to care, the patient experience, and enables higher-value care models. Due to the staff and resource-intensive approach of traditional device-based Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) that can only […]

The Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) is pleased to present the annual Canada West Health Leaders Conference (CWHLC). Hosted by the CCHL Western Chapters (Assiniboia (SK), BC Interior, BC Lower Mainland, BC Vancouver Island, Manitoba, Midnight Sun, Northern Alberta, Northern and Central Saskatchewan, and Southern Alberta) this conference will present an opportunity for health […]

As demand for healthcare services increases, it's vital for healthcare leaders across Canada to fully understand the significant role of home-based care within the wider healthcare framework. Join leaders from AlayaCare to learn about home care's important role in growing our healthcare sector and what technology, data, and AI can do to address industry challenges […]

This program is a live, virtual webinar series that infuses Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) principles and practices implicit in the LEADS capability Framework. The program aims to equip leaders with personal, interpersonal and strategic capabilities that will enable them to leverage diversity and foster behavioural and structural inclusion.  

Generative AI is taking the world, and healthcare, by storm. The accurately predicted textual outputs based on prompts can induce "wow" moments. But there needs to be an industry-wide consideration for how to iteratively allow innovation powered by large language models to be rolled out within the sensitive domain of patient care while minimizing risks. […]

We are excited to bring the Infoway Partnership Conference to Vancouver this year! The conference will be held Nov. 14-15, once again during Digital Health Week (Nov. 13-19), which is an annual celebration of digital health and how it benefits the lives of Canadians. The 2023 Infoway Partnership Conference will showcase discussions about interoperability, standards, […]

This presentation engages with a communicative approach to delve into the interpretability of AI-driven tools for health. The objective is to illustrate a work in progress of using a proposed Box of Questions for Communicating AI4H to achieve end-users-oriented, intelligible explanations. Overall, the presentation will reflect on how embracing a communicative strategy when incorporating AI-driven […]

This webinar will discuss the research of Laurence M. Boitet, PhD, and her co-authors who conducted research into the psychological distress resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, including the development of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Their research was designed to support the development of trauma-informed leadership strategies, and they collected data from June to […]

St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) is currently in the process of operationalizing the Deterioration Index, a Cognitive Computing model that acts as an extension of the Epic electronic health record to help detect early signs of patient deterioration in order to determine the likelihood that a patient will experience an escalation in care (i.e., transfer […]