Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Respecting Mental Healthcare: What Role for Law?
Acting Director, University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics Canada urgently needs better access to mental health services. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been embraced by some as a tool for addressing accessibility problems, e.g., AI-powered chatbots offer therapy, and AI algorithms harness social media data to detect suicidal ideation. While AI holds…
Read MorePromoting compassionate care in acute psychiatry with human-AI teams
Scientist, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health The future deployment of AI-based clinical support in psychiatry is thought to rely on successful human-AI teaming, which involves AI enhancing human abilities to process information or make decisions, rather than replacing them. Unfortunately, there is little empirical work into how successful…
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 MoreBuilding Compassionate Digital Capacity to Manage Childhood Cancer Pain: Parent Co-Design of the PainCaRe app.
Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto Almost all children with cancer will experience pain. This pain decreases quality of life for the child and their caregivers—and is a significant financial burden to families and health systems. App-based digital solutions are uniquely poised to offer real-time and accessible compassionate healthcare and…
Read MoreUsing artificial intelligence to prevent blood clots in cancer patients
Medical Oncologist and Clinician Investigator, Princess Margaret Venous thromboembolism, also known as blood clots, are a common and potentially deadly complication of cancer and its treatment. New pills, called direct oral anticoagulants, can prevent blood clots, but they come with a risk of bleeding. Currently there is limited ability to predict who benefits from these…
Read MoreCo-designing a multi-modal sensor system to enable compassionate hip-fracture recovery at home for older adults
Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto Hip fracture,is a very common injury among older adults (OAs) and recovery is challenging for older adults with comorbidities. Charlene’s project will provide compassionate hip fracture recovery by refining an AI-based sensor system to assist OAs’ hip fracture recovery at home. She hopes the…
Read MoreLearning to Trust: Advancing human-machine trust pedagogies for a technology enabled compassionate workforce in Northern and rural Canada
Associate Professor of Medical Education, NOSM University Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming patient care through human-machine augmented innovations in Canada. While most AI research has occurred in large urban cities in Canada, there are growing calls to build an AI research ecosystem that is more responsive to the unique needs of rural and Northern Canada.…
Read MorePreparing or deciding in serious illness? Digital solutions for a digital problem
Clinician-investigator, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto. Preparing patients with serious illness for progression of their disease calls for different tools than those used to help patients who are deciding between medical interventions. Tavis will study how family medicine residents and physicians learn in the workplace to support patients as they prepare…
Read MoreCapturing 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…
Read MoreWorking with South-Asian immigrants to make virtual care compassionate and more relevant to their needs
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing at Western University. Immigrants experience inequities in their access to and use of healthcare, specifically virtual care (VC). In this project, Saleema will first explore what compassion, equity, trust, and a productive patient-provider relationship means for South Asian (SA) immigrants, in the context of VC. She will then collaborate with…
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