Transform HF
Digital Innovation for Heart Failure CareTRANSFORM HF aims to build, support, and seed fund a community of engineers, scientists and clinicians who will work in tandem with Indigenous health experts and patients to develop point-of-care diagnostics, wearables, and AI technologies to monitor and proactively treat people with heart failure in their homes – and empower them to be more active in their own care.
750,000
Canadians are living with heart failure
7
Days in hospital on average per visit
100,000
New cases are diagnosed each year
70,000
Canadians hospitalized per year
Heart Failure in Canada
Few chronic conditions carry as great a burden as heart failure. Yet its care in Canada is fragmented, low-tech and reactive, with glaring inequities in access, quality of care and patient outcomes. Through collaboration, integration and innovation, our diverse team will dramatically alter the management and trajectory of people with heart failure, bringing new innovations into clinical practice, and improving access to equitable high-quality care.
Together, we will break the barriers faced by Indigenous people and underserved communities. And improve care for all.
FEATURED EVENT
Save the Date
Join us the morning of November 8th for our 2024 Fall Network Event! We’re excited to bring our community together again for an action-packed day of inspiring discussions, research presentations, and networking activities! Agenda and more details coming soon!
NEWS
TRANSFORM HF’s 2024 Trainee Award Recipients
TRANSFORM HF is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2024 Trainee Awards! Learn more about the heart failure trainees and their projects.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
2024 Seed Grant for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care
We are proud to launch a brand-new seed grant in partnership with The Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care to support members of our community working at the intersection of health and sustainability.
TRANSFORM HF is offering funding of up to $10,000 for one one-year collaborative project on the climate and environmental impacts of digital transformation in health. This grant will support a variety of research activities, including data collection, systematic scoping reviews, environmental scans, workshops, engagement processes, and research proposal development.
MOVING THE NEEDLE
U of T Groundbreakers
Our University of Toronto Groundbreakers episode is live! Hear from Dr. Heather Ross, Amika Shah, and Dr. Dan Franklin to learn about some of the important work we are supporting.
Groundbreakers is a multimedia series that features U of T research superstars from the Institutional Strategic Initiatives.
Acknowledgement of Territory
We acknowledge the traditional territories of the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation, Anishnawbe, Wendat, Huron, and Haudenosaunee Indigenous Peoples on which our partner institutions stand.
The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We would also like to pay our respects to all our ancestors and to our present Elders.