Understanding tech-ready compassionate leadership and its relationship with AI use in healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies are changing healthcare, but we know little about how leaders can support implementation of these tools while maintaining compassion for patients, families, and staff. Laura’s project will study tech-ready compassionate leadership—the ability to lead digital and AI-enabled change while preserving human-centred care. Through a national survey of healthcare leaders,…
Read MoreBuilding trust by design: Patient-centered education for accountable AI in healthcare
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into healthcare, patients and caregivers need accessible, trustworthy information to understand how AI may influence their care. Laura’s project will build on the nationally co-designed Patient Charter for the Accountable Use of AI in Healthcare to create educational resources with, and for, patients and families. Through co-design workshops, community…
Read MoreScaling with compassion: Exploring patient partner’s perspectives on sustaining compassionate care while scaling AI and digital health innovations
To achieve population-wide benefits, artificial intelligence and digital healthcare tools and services must scale to new settings without losing their impact. Celia and her team’s goal is to identify challenges and facilitators to maintaining compassionate care throughout the scaling process, based on the experiences of 15-20 people with lived/living experience who have partnered on scaling…
Read MoreUnderstanding compassionate electronic health information exchange from the perspective of people who have substance use disorders
Associate Scientist, Digital Mental Health Lab within the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Electronic health information exchange (HIE) allows clinicians to securely access and share patients’ medical information between institutions. Sensitive health information, such as a diagnosis of substance use disorder (SUD), carries an increased risk of…
Read MoreCoping with grief in the digital era: exploring the role of compassion
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and opioid crisis, individuals across Canada have been impacted by the loss of someone they know. This loss effects many domains of one’s life, including emotional and behavioral. Grief following bereavement is an extremely painful, but unfortunately common experience. Strategies to cope…
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