A national school food program would not only help with children's health, but it would also improve students' success, say Dr. Daniel Bierstone and Dr. Sloane Freeman, pediatricians at Unity Health Toronto: ottawacitizen.com/opinion/bierst…

'Peoples’ lives are being saved with solutions like this,” Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics, told University of Toronto about CHARTWatch and how Unity Health Toronto patients, physicians & staff are benefiting from the use of AI. magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas…

When patients experiencing homelessness come to the hospital, they stay longer and are double the cost of housed patients. St. Michael's Hospital's LP Pavey, outreach worker, and Carolyn Snider, emergency physician, talk with CBC News about the issue: cbc.ca/i/phoenix/play…

BlueDot (BlueDot) uses #AI to predict and track disease outbreaks. Dr. Kamran Khan, infectious disease physician at St. Michael's Hospital and the startup's founder, talks with @uoft about using AI to monitor medical threats: magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas…

The longer immigrants live in Canada, the higher their risk for multiple sclerosis, says new research in Neurology Journal led by St. Michael's Hospital physician-scientists Dr. Manav Vyas & Dr. Dalia Rostein. They spoke with Globalnews.ca about their findings: globalnews.ca/video/10447833…

KT Program Director & Unity Health Toronto Scientist, Dr. Sharon Straus, co-chaired the working group that recently released this RSC // SRC report- “Health Research System Recovery: Strengthening Canada’s Health Research System after the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

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A new fellowship is supporting rehabilitation professionals at Providence to engage in research projects in areas like concussions, falls and suicide risk assessment. We spoke to the fellows to learn more about their projects: bit.ly/44hOPZf

Many mental health care providers have gone virtual. St. Michael's Hospital's MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions's Lucie Langford, research coordinator, & Dr. Braden O'Neill, physician-scientist, wrote a piece in Healthy Debate to help people optimize these virtual appointments. healthydebate.ca/2024/04/topic/…

Unity Health Toronto receives about 1,400 research contracts in a year. We're using #AI to speed up the processing of those many contracts, giving staff more time to do other critical tasks. Read the story in Hospital News: hospitalnews.com/how-ai-can-red…

Is virtual care the answer to improving the health care system? Dr. Tara Kiran, family physician and researcher at St. Michael's Hospital, was on The Big Story Podcast talking about the pros and cons of virtual care: thebigstorypodcast.ca/2024/04/24/can…

We have updated our Strategy webpage! 🖥️

Click around the new interactive graphic or check out stories about the many ways we’re driving forward our vision of the best care experiences, created together.

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ED Queue has arrived to the St. Michael’s Hospital Emergency Department (ED)! The tool, created by our applied #AI team in collaboration with @Signal1, helps staff and physicians in the ED work more efficiently so patients get more timely and responsive care. #AI 2Care

Congratulations to St. Michael's Hospital's Academic Family Health Team (SMAFHT) for winning the 2024 COUPN Agency Recognition Award! 👏

SMAFHT was recognized for its commitment to nursing education and for providing great clinical experiences.🎉Ontario's Universities

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