Your TRANSFORM HF 2024 Wrapped is Here
TRANSFORM HF made quite an impact in 2024, from funded research to new programs and models of care. Take a look at our year-in-review.
Best Practices for Digital Health Innovation
On November 8, 2024, 80+ clinicians, researchers, trainees, people with lived experience, and industry partners joined us for our 7th bi-annual meeting. In addition to fostering potential collaborations, this event clarified some best practices for digital health innovation.
The Digital Hub: Bringing Great Ideas out of the Lab
Situated within Canada’s largest hospital network, the Digital Hub facilitates access to cutting edge resources, world class expertise, and diverse patient populations. We understand the unique needs of patients, clinicians, and the healthcare system – and what’s required for your innovation to succeed.
Animation on Cree Community Heart Health Accepted to Toronto Shorts
Set in the communities of Moosonee and Moose Factory, “Strengthening our Hearts through a River of Possibilities,” highlights key themes from community members’ stories about managing their heart health.
Catalyzing Collaboration at the Intersection of Data Science & Biomedical Engineering
Data scientist Chris McIntosh and biomedical engineer Dan Franklin first met at a TRANSFORM HF networking event. Now they’re working together with their trainees Will Gao and Matthew Kenyon Lee to develop advanced wearable devices that use AI to produce cleaner data for more reliable insights into heart function.
Working with Weeneebayko Area Health Authority to Transform Care
It took Gloria Stoney five days to get medivaced from her home in Peawanuck to Toronto General Hospital this October when she started experiencing serious cardiac symptoms. She returned home at the end of November.
A new 5-year agreement with Weeneebayko Area Health Authority will support the cardiovascular needs of James and Hudson Bay communities with a focus on direct care and remote management, so that patients like Gloria can access high-quality care close to home.
Designing for Equity: New Grant Advances Digital Innovation for Equitable Heart Failure Care
Breaking news: TRANSFORM HF has been awarded a $1.65 million 6-year NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience grant to train the next generation of digital health innovators to design for equity!
Translating Cardiovascular Remote Diagnostic and Monitoring Technologies for Equitable Healthcare, or CaRDM Eq, will be delivered by a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Azadeh Yadollahi.
Together with this diverse team and 30+ collaborators, we will ensure the next innovations in digital health have equity at their core – from ideation, to design, to implementation.
Collaborating Coast-to-Coast for Health Equity
By supporting members of the TRANSFORM HF community in the development of new projects, our Collaboration Starter Grants aim to advance our mission of digital innovation for equitable heart failure care.
Another key objective of these grants is to foster new research partnerships and expand our network – something Dr. Jay Shaw has been able to do on a national scale through his pan-Canadian policy analysis of virtual care technologies.
University Health Network and Boehringer Ingelheim Canada partner to impact patients lives and help a healthcare system under strain
The Ontario healthcare system is under strain, still recovering from the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. The University Health Network (UHN) and Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. have partnered to address a critical need of heart failure patients.
The objective of the partnership is to expand patient reach of UHN’s successful Medly Program— an innovative, digital therapeutic solution that delivers the benefits of specialized clinical heart failure management at home while improving quality of life and reducing hospitalizations.
New U of T Program Offers Foundational Cardiovascular Health Entrepreneurship Training
Learning about entrepreneurship is an ongoing process that should start with a program like ECHO Discovery.
Together, the Translational Biology & Engineering Program and TRANSFORM HF designed ECHO Discovery to introduce trainees to the world of ideation, research translation, and entrepreneurship.
ECHO Discovery provides an advantage to trainees who choose to pursue either a start-up or career in industry, health care, or government.
