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Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing how people do business — and introducing challenges that would have been unimaginable just five years ago. So before major corporations take their first steps in designing or adopting AI tools, they call U of…

Professor John W. Senders, who joined the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (MIE) department in 1974, passed away on February 12, 2019 due to complications from pneumonia, two weeks before his 99th birthday. Senders will be remembered fondly for his many…

An artificial intelligence (AI) programme developed in China that combs through test results, health records and even handwritten notes diagnosed childhood diseases as accurately as doctors, researchers said Monday. From the flu and asthma to life-threatening pneumonia and meningitis, the…

Big Data has been called medicine’s future, with predictions that artificial intelligence helping researchers sift through every blood pressure, every ECG and MRI looking for cures. But there are fears that data mining is ripe for misuse. A survey published…

Nova Scotia paramedics have provided some limited palliative-care services, like medication to help with pain or shortness of breath, review of the care plan and counselling for the family, since 2015. Similar programs exist in P.E.I. and Alberta. Now, other…

The Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine is releasing its first report, providing an overview of the problem of hallway health care in Ontario. “There’s much to be proud of in our health care system. However, there…

On any given day, at least 1,000 people are being treated in Ontario hospital hallways, according to the special adviser on health care, who says “tough decisions” will be required to fix the problem. The first report from Dr. Rueben…

Big data holds enormous promise for improving human health. Tahir Janmohamed (Skoll CompE 0T4 + MBA 0T6) aims to harness that power — but he believes that too often the approach is completely backward. “One of the biggest issues that…

Professor Levente Diosady (ChemE) has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and Dr. Arthur Slutsky (EngSci 7T0, MASc MIE 7T2) has been named a Member of the Order of Canada. Dr. Arthur Slutsky was honoured “for his contributions to the research…

The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, tabled in Parliament a Framework on Palliative Care in Canada. The Framework will help support improved access to palliative care by providing a useful reference point for governments, stakeholders, caregivers and communities…