Digital Monitoring of Stress Responses Among Nursing Professionals
Biographies Gillian Strudwick Venkat Bhat If you wish to participate in the study Program: Interventional Neuropsychiatry Program Study Funder Department of Defense, Canada (IDeAS Program) UHT-St. Michael’s link to the Phase 1 of the current project (Phase 2) Useful Resources: https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief/burnout-in-hospital-based-healthcare-workers-during-covid-19/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35614505/ https://theconversation.com/high-rates-of-covid-19-burnout-could-lead-to-shortage-of-health-care-workers-166476 https://www.researchprotocols.org/2022/2/e32240/ Pertinent Publication Links: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34871178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9731177/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10095849 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36310921/ Listen to the Podcast HERE
Read MoreDigital Therapeutics Informed by Lived Experience
In this conversation, Quynh Pham, Scientific Director & Principal Investigator at the Centre for Digital Therapeutics at the University Health Network and an AMS Healthcare Fellow in Compassion and AI speaks with Joseph A Cafazzo, (Cafahzzo)biomedical engineer, educator and researcher and the Wolfond Chair in Digital Health, University Health Network Quynh and Joe engage on…
Read MoreDesigning the Future of Aging in Place
Jen Recknagel Director, Innovation and Design, NORC Innovation Centre Jen combines a background in human-centered design to address challenges at the intersection of health and its social determinants. Experienced with executing a variety of service design projects, she is currently the Senior Design Lead at UHN OpenLab, and Director of Innovation and Design at the…
Read MoreNational licensure, better virtual-care needed to fix system ‘close to the precipice’: CMA president
This article was written in partnership with Healthy Debate, and is part of a series of seven articles that explore the relationship between technology and compassion in the field of health care today, and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Author: Inori Roy Illustrator: Winsome Adelia Tse Of all the responsibilities anesthesiologists undertake in their day-to-day duties,…
Read MoreThe past, present and future of race and colonialism in medicine
Ellen J. Amster, AMS Healthcare Hannah Chair. May 24, 2022 This article was first published in the CMAJ on May 24, 2022. The original article can be accessed here. Western medicine has begun a reckoning with its inconvenient pasts, from dethroning medical heroes to an increasing awareness of how doctors have treated colonized and enslaved…
Read MoreCompassion in Digital Mental Health
Good Tech, Compassionate Care Podcast: Today’s conversation focuses on how digital interventions during COVID impacted the way we deliver compassionate care.
Read MoreAI Democratizing Access to Parent Child Quality Assessment
Good Tech, Compassionate Care Podcast: Today’s conversation focuses on how digital interventions during COVID impacted the way we deliver compassionate care.
Read MoreMandatory COVID-19 vaccination in schools this fall? Ontario’s 1982 legislation spurred organized opposition
This blog was written by AMS Healthcare History of Medicine and Healthcare Program 2020 project grant recipient Catherine Carstairs and her colleagues from the University of Guelph. It very nicely supports the AMS Healthcare concept that History of Medicine research can and does act as a source of lessons that shape or inform the Canadian…
Read MoreA Supportive Action Plan for Patients, Caregivers and Organization
AMS Healthcare has put together this guide that outlines key messages and requests targeted to the various decision-makers and stakeholder groups with whom you may meet.
Read MorePatient and Caregiver Report on Technology and Compassion During COVID-19
Using the data gathered from our 2020 Virtual Conference: Hearing Your Voices, AMS Healthcare has compiled a set of recommendations for ensuring healthcare remains compassionate in the face of technological advancements.
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