About Us
TRANSFORM HF was launched in 2020 to take on one of today’s biggest health challenges – heart failure. Created in joint support and partnership with the University of Toronto and the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, we are bring together experts, innovators, and communities united by one goal: to make heart failure care more equitable.
We’re developing a range of digital health tools that help diagnose, monitor, and manage heart failure more effectively. But technology alone isn’t the answer. Digital solutions only work when they’re designed with and for the people who use them. That’s why we focus on co-design – partnering with patients, caregivers, and clinicians to build tools that meet real-world needs.
Members
With collaboration at our core, we’ve grown a vibrant network of over 300 members, including over 80 national and international partners.
Our Mission
TRANSFORM HF advances equitable, person-centred heart failure care by developing, translating, and implementing innovative digital health solutions. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and responsible design, we move cutting-edge research into real-world impact— preventing, managing, and transforming the lived experience of heart failure.
Our Vision
Digital innovation enables equitable access to high quality, personalized heart failure care for all.
Our Goals
Our Core Principles
While our goals and strategies may evolve over time, these principles remain constant – challenging us to be:
Innovative: We champion bold ideas and new technologies that challenge the status quo and accelerate breakthroughs in heart failure care.
Responsible:We believe responsible innovation means building equitable, culturally safe, and climate-conscious solutions that strengthen—not strain or divide.
Patient- and Community-Centered:We connect lived experience with research excellence to co-create solutions that reflect real needs and improve lives.
Interdisciplinary: We recognize that grand challenges call for grand solutions – cutting across disciplines, sectors, and experience.
Translational: We get great ideas out of the lab, accelerating the pace of innovation to ensure solutions get into the hands of those who need them when they need them.
Our Horizon Principles
Our horizon principles articulate where we want to go. They are forward-looking commitments that challenge us to think boldly, experiment, and push beyond what is currently possible.
Wholistic Health: We seek to build solutions that see the whole person, not just the condition.
Global Reach: We want to see our breakthroughs benefit people everywhere, not just in our own backyard.
Commitment to Equitable Care
Equity in healthcare requires equity within our team of healthcare professionals, academics, researchers, patients, communities, and clinicians. We believe the success of our network is dependent upon integrating inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility into all that we do.
We cannot know the issues and needs of people experiencing inequities without establishing true, transparent partnerships with them. We aim to build a fully inclusive TRANSFORM HF community at all levels – making decisions, designing research, and developing treatments together.
We are committed to inclusive engagement and shared solutions and observe our institutional policies on IDEAA: