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“The least sexy applications, things like improving processes, streamlining back office or routine tasks, will probably have a big impact without it being noticed by the average patient,” he told CTVNews.ca over email, adding that AI “will become more and…

Research from Professor Myrtede Alfred, CHE Faculty Affiliate, highlights racial and ethnic disparities in maternal care at U.S. hospitals in a special issue on healthcare equity just published by The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS). Reviewing…

Throughout his career, Timothy Chan has been using AI to solve health-care problems. The professor at the University of Toronto and CHE Affiliate jumped at the chance to help milk banks using AI. “It’s something close to my heart as…

“We are extremely fortunate in this region to have the calibre of people and the research infrastructure of the TAHSN network. This work gives patients access to the latest therapies and enables clinicians to benefit from the latest knowledge,” says…

A team of U of T Engineering researchers, led by Professor Timothy Chan (MIE), is leveraging machine learning to optimize the macronutrient content of pooled human donor milk recipes.   The researchers introduce their data-driven optimization model in a new paper…

“We were a bit surprised that the improvements appeared greater in the urban areas. There’s an historical inequity in EMS response times in rural versus urban areas, so we anticipated that drones could provide a bigger improvement in response times…

The University of Toronto is a world-renowned university in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). On the 5th of October, reporter Kim Namyoung met Tim Chan, a professor of industrial engineering and CHE faculty affiliate at the…

Using an approach known as human-centered automation, the University of Toronto’s Enid Montague aims to engineer a better health-care experience that helps ease the strain the current stress on the system and delivers more equitable care. Full article at: U of T…

Professor Enid Montague (MIE) aims to engineer a better health-care experience and help ease the current stress on the system using an approach known as human-centered automation.  Canada faces a critical doctor shortage that has left more than six million…