Innovation isn’t enough: Why health tech needs to be meaningful
The mantra, “move fast and break things”, reigns supreme in startup culture, particularly in the technology industry. Famously coined by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, the mantra encourages speed and innovation over perfection. Like many sectors, Canada’s health systems stand at a crossroads on how to enter a new era of digital and AI-enabled healthcare.
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“There’s no algorithm for compassion. There’s no predictive model for compassion. And the only thing that technology will not be able to do is human compassion”
Read MoreAlgorithms with heart: Using machine learning to improve health care and patient outcomes
Healthcare innovation often begins at the crossroads of curiosity and necessity. For Dr. Amol Verma, a General Internal Medicine Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, it started with a simple question: How can we deliver better care to our patients? In the mid-2010s, Dr. Verma and his colleagues sought to measure the quality of care being…
Read MoreCompassion beyond the screen: Dr. Laura Desveaux’s research shows how compassionate health care can thrive in virtual care
Ontario’s health care system experienced a seismic shift in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology-based primary care visits soared 56-fold while in-person visits dropped by nearly 80%. Amid the rapid pivot to virtual care and the near immediate decline in social connectivity, a pressing question emerged: can compassionate care translate through a screen? After…
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