Hearing Your Voices Conference Panel 3: Digital Health: How do we get there together?
Concerns have been raised about equity in accessing digital healthcare and ensuring patients, physicians, and providers are supported to partner in care together. This panel explored the challenges and barriers and offered insight and expertise for drivers and solutions.
Read MoreHearing Your Voices Conference Panel 4: How do we make it happen?
This panel discussed the support patients and caregivers need to fully engage with digital health technologies; the support providers need and how we prepare them for digital health technologies, and the leadership required to help us realize this future.
Read MoreAMS/OMSA Technology and Compassionate Care Medical Student Education Research Grant (MSERG)
If you’re an undergraduate medical student in Ontario, you’re in a unique position to contribute to medical education research. The Compassionate Care MSERG funds medical students who, together with university faculty, conduct research on the impact of technology on medical practice, patient care and the education of physicians. Up to two co-applicants may apply for…
Read MoreNursing and compassionate care in the age of artificial intelligence
This report outlines 15 recommendations to prepare nurses and nursing students to use artificially intelligent health technologies (AIHTs) to augment the patient experience, while ensuring the delivery of quality, person-centred, and compassionate nursing care.
Read MoreEmpowering patients and caregivers in the era of digital health
This AMS-sponsored report is for patients and caregivers. It takes a look at health technologies (mobile apps, AI, electronic health records, etc.) to understand their benefits and risks (privacy concerns, equity and accessibility, etc.). It also explores the cultural changes needed before such technologies can be widely—and appropriately—implemented. Read it and you’ll be ready to help shape the way we incorporate digital health technologies into Canadian healthcare.
Read MoreNursing and compassionate care in a technological world
This AMS-sponsored report digs into the implications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and robotics for the future of nursing and for nurses’ ability to provide compassionate, person-centered nursing care. If you’re an RN, RPN, or NP, this report is for you.
Read MoreThe impact of artificial intelligence on clinical judgment
In this AMS-sponsored report, physicians and medical educators can learn about the current and potential links between AI and clinical judgment. It provides a clear explanation of how AI will likely support, but not to replace, the judgment of physicians.
Read MoreMachines, ethics and equity
Dr. Jay Shaw discusses how digital technology is used in healthcare today and how its use is impacting equity and ethics in medicine.
Read MoreCompassionate care in a technological world
Want to see examples of how technology is changing various professional roles in healthcare, or learn which issues we need to keep in mind in this context? View the presentation slides from this 2019 talk.
Read MoreDesigning healthcare services for excellence and empathy
Check out the slides from Professor Elizabeth Teisberg’s 2019 AMS talk that explored how healthcare can achieve better value for money.
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