Emily O'Sullivan

Many medical researchers in Canada continue to build their own AI models to help discover new approaches to help patient outcomes. These prebuilt models allow "healthcare organizations to rapidly build and deploy AI solutions tailored to their specific needs, all while minimizing the extensive compute and data requirements typically associated with building multimodal models from scratch." https://lnkd.in/gw_Naeug #AIinHealth #GenAI #Innovation #Healthcare

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Cybersecurity experts are increasingly being asked to help Canadian healthcare organizations navigate the opportunities and risks of using AI in healthcare. In response to this, we have created a new guide that advises on how to build an infrastructure of trust to facilitate AI adoption in healthcare in a safe and responsible way. Download the guide to learn more: https://bit.ly/3UsbQ8k

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How Can We Drive Innovation While Ensuring Sustainability in Healthcare? I joined many executives and colleagues attending an inspiring webinar hosted by Deloitte’s Partner Georgina Black featuring the Hon. Mark Holland, PC, MP Minister of Health Canada. The session was a powerful reminder of the opportunities we have to reimagine healthcare through innovation, collaboration, and sustainable solutions. As leaders in the healthcare space, we face a critical challenge: How do we scale innovative solutions while ensuring sustainable funding and equitable access for all? This question deeply resonates with the work I am leading at Sifio Health, where we are focused on integrating cutting-edge solutions to address some of the biggest challenges in healthcare. Key themes from the session align closely with our mission: • Maximizing Potential: By leveraging interdisciplinary teams and empowering healthcare professionals to work at the top of their scope, we can create systems that are both efficient and patient-centered. • Prevention as a Core Strategy: Investing in proactive, prevention-focused care models aligns with our belief that addressing root causes leads to healthier populations and more sustainable healthcare outcomes. • Long-Term Vision: True transformation requires bold, forward-thinking strategies—not just short-term fixes. This ethos drives our innovation roadmap as we seek to create long-lasting impact. This session reaffirmed the importance of aligning bold innovation with sustainable practices. It also reinforced my belief that start-ups and established players alike must collaborate to lead this transformation. Together, we can create a healthcare system that is equitable, innovative, and built to thrive for generations. Let’s continue to ask: How can we ensure that innovation in healthcare is not only groundbreaking but also sustainable and inclusive? #HealthcareLeadership #Innovation #StartUpJourney #FutureOfHealthcare #Collaboration

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After the successful launch of M365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot, it great to see such a fast follow for role based GenAI tools that help change the way people work. Discover how The Ottawa Hospital leverages Microsoft AI to enhance patient care accessibility while combating physician burnout. #HealthTech #Innovation #EverydayAI https://lnkd.in/edvKgG-T

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We're thrilled to share an insightful article co-authored by our Executive Director, Lindsay Wingham-Smith, that explores the development and early implementation of a Capability Framework for enhancing patient, family, and caregiver engagement within Ontario Health Teams (OHTs). As one of the co-authors, Lindsay offered valuable insights on how OHTs can create engagement-capable environments - foundations that enable sustainable, high-quality collaboration between health care providers, patients and families. This is a critical step in shaping the future of care delivery in Ontario. At Mississauga Health, we're always looking for new ways to connect, collaborate, and learn from our peers across the health care system. Engaging with other OHTs and health care organizations allows us to ensure we’re delivering the most connected, integrated, and patient-centered care possible for those we serve in our region. 🔎 Check out the article to learn more about the framework and how it can help us all build stronger, more engaged health care environments. #MississaugaHealth #OntarioHealthTeams #OHT

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Great steps forward to improve digital health tools and the interoperability of health data as essential strategies to tackle healthcare provider admin burden and modernize Canada’s health system. 👍🏻 Kathleen Ross Joss Reimer Canadian Medical Association #digitalhealth #EHR #burnoutprevention

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The decades-long trend of disinvestment in healthcare infrastructure has led to unacceptable barriers to access and serious challenges to the quality of care Canadians receive. Addressing these issues can seem dauntingly complex; before adopting new policies, it’s important to make sure remedies are well designed to achieve a return on investment. In determining the most impactful ways to move forward, the government and other key players in Canada’s healthcare system can look to other countries whose healthcare systems are particularly effective on a given measure and take a page from those countries’ playbook. 🔗 Read the full story on The Gryphon Group Blog: https://lnkd.in/gB6VyQun #healthcarenews #healthcareindustry #canadianhealth #healthcanada #healthcaresystems #TheGryphonGroup

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EVALUATING YOUR ONTARIO HEALTH TEAM’s STRATEGIC OUTCOMES: OHTs were officially created when all the Member Community Governance Boards agreed on a powerful SHARED VISION for a transformed healthcare services delivery system. The Ministry then ratified the Shared Vision from the CEOs and their Boards as the very purpose for creating the OHT. They exist to achieve the outcomes embedded in the Shared Vision. So, after five years and billions of dollars, “how’s it going, eh?” Have you achieved the vision? Board members need to explore data demonstrating the progress that has been made achieving the vision over the past five years. Here is how community governance board members can think about what a true “system transformation”’ would look like/ feel like — if you were a patient, family member,’staff, physician, or other partners along the continuum of care across the fragmented silos within the OHT. Is your OHT still stuck in the “First Curve Design Stage”? Or, are you emerging to become a “Second Curve System Design”?

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Learn how Guidehouse Health helps organizations unlock the benefits of a centralized data repository.

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🏥✨ For many years, technology investments made by health organizations were rarely a driving force behind strategic #transactions. Explore in my latest article with Sam Prescott how #generativeAI has changed the game for Health CIOs. A must-read for leaders at the forefront of change! https://lnkd.in/gRWmi5AH

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Fascinating insights from Michelle Leafloor of Hamilton Health on the way forward with technology, whether it's seen as a tool, a solution to overcome challenges, or a lever for business growth, it's important to place a strategic lens on your future IT roadmap. Michelle covers all of this and shares some very human perspectives

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This #DigitalHealthWeek, discover how Teladoc Health Canada is helping bridge health care challenges with innovation and compassion. Whether it’s supporting families through virtual primary care, providing emergency care to patients in rural communities or supporting people navigating their mental health, we’re empowering patients and providers alike. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gwVspDEr. --- « En intégrant les soins virtuels, les gens à travers le Canada ont accès à des services de haute qualité quand ils en ont le plus besoin » - Joby McKenzie, PhD, Directrice Générale, Teladoc Health Canada En cette #SemainedelaSantéNumérique, découvrez comment Teladoc Health Canada aide à relever les défis en matière de soins de santé grâce à l'innovation et à la compassion. Qu'il s'agisse de soutenir les familles grâce aux soins primaires virtuels, de fournir des soins d'urgence aux patients des communautés rurales ou d'aider les gens à naviguer leur santé mentale, nous donnons de l'autonomie aux patients et aux fournisseurs de soins. Pour en savoir plus, consultez le site: https://lnkd.in/gwVspDEr.

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Low barrier to entry is just one advantage to going small. "...the cost to try a small language model AI is close to zero, as opposed to monthly licensing costs for an LLM or spending millions of dollars to build your own, Bullock says." #AI #innovation #techtrends #IT #ITleaders

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Canada’s vision for a connected and interoperable healthcare system relies heavily on the responsible adoption of innovative technologies like AI. Aligned to the Shared pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap, our new toolkit serves as a foundational guide for healthcare organizations and underscores the critical role of robust procurement frameworks in building a unified digital health ecosystem. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3C8Nx8W

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Very important report to document in detail where we are with health data standards. These findings confirm what clinicians already know: common standards are not in use, creating fragmentation. While most patient health information currently digitized often in standardized formats, these standards differ greatly across the country and healthcare settings.  Elements like immunizations and medications recorded using many different terminologies. Modern standards including SNOMED are becoming more established, but still represent a small portion. Many important elements of patient information are also shared electronically, primarily using older standards, most commonly HL7 v2. HL7 v3 and FHIR are in early use, but 70% of respondents are considering upgrades. This report confirms the need to align on Pan-Canadian standards as soon as possible, and make the investments to get them implemented across our health systems. We’ll look forward to repeating this study in a few years time to see what has changed.

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Now that our HIT industry has spent nearly 40 years figuring out how to effectively pass data between sites, settings, and institutions of care (and while that journey isn't completely over, we're well on our way), we can finally turn and look farther down the road and consider what's next. In my view, advancing process consistency, agility, and change is that horizon. The BPM community is focused on that challenge, and having recently transitioned into HL7 as HL7 BPM, is squarely trying to take this on. With today's press release, HL7 is truly open-for-business in this space. Thanks to the OMG for nurturing this work along and for HL7 for having made our next home for this effort. So much to do! https://lnkd.in/dAF96g3n

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Our healthcare system depends on a resilient supply chain to ensure the right products reach providers at the right time, place, and price—following best practices. Together, let’s strengthen our healthcare system to ensure safe and efficient patient care! #HealthcareSupplyChainWeek

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