OUR PROGRAMS
Solving Today's
Challenges
Discover leading research that brings eHealth and mHealth technologies into the hands of Albertans.
Our mission is to improve patient-centered care, healthcare access, and timeliness for Alberta's diverse populations.
Enhancing Healthcare Equity in Alberta
Health innovation for infection prevention and control
The bundle of projects will look at the application of various eHealth tools to enhance aspects of infection prevention control, starting with hand hygiene compliance. This area includes a partnership with Cisco Canada to implement an interactive hand hygiene...
Theme 1: Bridging Community and Acute Care
OUR RESEARCH
Uniting researchers, decision-makers, and digital health innovators to ensure seamless, inclusive, and scalable healthcare implementation in acute and community-based care settings.
Led by: Matthew James and Neesh Pannu
Evaluate distributed data vending with blockchain to transform electronic health records by encouraging data distribution from owners and enabling large-scale data aggregation with robustness. Working with policy leads and government stakeholders to encourage legislation to comply with recommended standards.
Building the basic infrastructure to allow data to flow securely
Develop a synthetic data sandbox that drives innovation by allowing innovators to develop products using synthetic health data that reflects the real world and protects citizen privacy during product development.
Developing a pipeline for exceptional analytics and research
Theme 3: Connectivity and Data Access
OUR RESEARCH
We face significant challenges with the lack of health data integration, leading to interoperability issues among patients and care providers. This theme seeks to establish secure and seamless data access and interoperability for improved healthcare.
Led by: Tyler Williamson
A series of projects to better understand the factors, processes, and tools needed to support a vibrant ecosystem. This includes real-time, longitudinal research on if eHealth and mHealth technology development and innovation in Alberta is meeting current goals.
Evaluating the current eHealth and mHealth ecosystem
While innovators experience challenges navigating the support available to them, there are also unique services that innovators in eHealth and mHealth require that are not readily available. We will work to identify and fill critical gaps in the services available to innovators.
Bespoke ecosystem support services
Theme 4: Integrated Innovation Ecosystem Support
OUR RESEARCH
By addressing gaps and opportunities in the current ecosystem, our aim is to create a dynamic eHealth and mHealth ecosystem, by identifying resources, matching them with innovators, and improving overall integration.
Led by: Chad Saunders
Land Acknowledgement
The University of Calgary, located in the heart of Southern Alberta, both acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
Improving specialist access programs
Theme 2: Remote Monitoring and Virtual Care
OUR RESEARCH
By leveraging academic research, industry collaboration, and community engagement, Health Everywhere creates a foundation for scaling virtual and mobile health innovations for virtual care.
Led by: Martin Ferguson-Pell and Mary Brindle