HN Summary
• Culture of Zero Harm: Since 2019, Mackenzie Health has led a comprehensive cultural transformation toward “zero harm,” embedding patient safety, transparency, and...
When extreme-sports enthusiast Samuel Arango was told he’d need urgent surgery to repair a hernia, he feared he’d be sidelined for a month or more.
Instead, Arango became one of London, Ont.’s, first patients to benefit from robot-assisted hernia surgery – a procedure that allowed...
HN Summary
• Culture of Zero Harm: Since 2019, Mackenzie Health has led a comprehensive cultural transformation toward “zero harm,” embedding patient safety, transparency, and...
When extreme-sports enthusiast Samuel Arango was told he’d need urgent surgery to repair a hernia, he feared he’d be sidelined for a month or more.
Instead, Arango became one of London, Ont.’s, first patients to benefit from robot-assisted hernia surgery – a procedure that allowed...
HN Summary
• Culture of Zero Harm: Since 2019, Mackenzie Health has led a comprehensive cultural transformation toward “zero harm,” embedding patient safety, transparency, and...
HN Summary
• AI-powered screening tool: Researchers at UHN developed the Hypermobility Assessment Tool (HAT), an AI-driven smartphone app approved by Health Canada that uses a phone camera to measure joint flexibility and automatically generate a Beighton Score to screen for Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS).
• Improving...
A longstanding issue with funding for scientific research in Canada has been selecting large scientific projects.
Telescopes and particle accelerators come to mind. They are expensive and...
A longstanding issue with funding for scientific research in Canada has been selecting large scientific projects.
Telescopes and particle accelerators come to mind. They are expensive and require long-term funding. Unfortunately, health and social data have largely been left out of the picture for big science research...