Capturing patients’ voices through innovative AI technology to enhance compassionate healthcare

Health Clinician Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized instruments that systematically document a patient’s perspective of their quality of life. Voxe is an electronic PROM (ePROM) platform app for youth with chronic conditions that illuminates underlying concerns that are often missed…

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Recognizing warnings in adults at risk of life-threatening diagnoses using AI

Researcher, Unity Health Toronto & Clinician Scientist, Sinai Health Delays, and often omissions, of life-threatening diagnoses are common, especially with hospitalized patients. To render the correct diagnosis, healthcare providers need sufficient uninterrupted time to review a patient’s medical record and speak with the patient directly, but the chaotic inpatient environment presents many challenges: interruptions, task-switching,…

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