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National HI Registry
Welcome to the Health Informatics section of our pilot project of creating a registry of health care health informatics, quality improvement, and patient safety projects across Canada launched Fall of 2021. Our aim is to increase collaboration between healthcare providers by sharing projects and solutions. Our vision is to have an easily searched and indexed registry to find the projects you are looking for!
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The use of high-fidelity manikins for advanced life support training--A systematic review and meta-analysis
Adam Cheng - chenger@me.com
Preliminary data gathering / Baseline
Interactive virtual cases for emergency medicine physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chantal Forristal - chantal.forristal@gmail.com
Project complete
Computerized physician order entry and decision support improves ED analgesic ordering for renal colic
Eddy Lang - eddy.lang@albertahealthservices.ca
Preliminary data gathering / Baseline
Computer order entry systems in the emergency department significantly reduce the time to medication delivery for high acuity patients
Shahbaz Syed - asnsyed@gmail.com
Project complete
Future of blockchain in healthcare: potential to improve the accessibility, security, and interoperability of electronic health records
Shaun Mehta - sd.mehta@mail.utoronto.ca
Planning/ Thinking stage
Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medicine: Surmountable Barriers With Revolutionary Potential
Alun Ackery - alun.ackery@mail.utoronto.ca
Planning/ Thinking stage
A Multimodal Evaluation of an Emergency Department Electronic Tracking Board Utility Designed to Optimize Stretcher Utilization
Dirk Chisholm - dachisho@ualberta.ca
Project complete
The Code Silver Exercise: a low-cost simulation alternative to prepare hospitals for an active shooter event
Julie J. Kim - julie.kim@lhsc.on.ca
Project complete
Mitigating staff risk in the workplace: the use of RFID technology during a COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Shaun Mehta - sd.mehta@mail.utoronto.ca
Planning/ Thinking stage
Epidemiologic features of medical emergencies in remote First Nations in northern Ontario: a cross-sectional descriptive study using air ambulance transport data
Dave Vanderburgh - davevanderburgh@gmail.com
Planning/ Thinking stage
Patient classification based on volume and case-mix in the emergency department and their association with performance
Farzad Zaerpour - f.zaerpour@uwinnipeg.ca
Project complete
Impact of a standardized communication system on continuity of care between family physicians and the emergency department
Marc Afilalo - marc.afilalo@mcgill.ca
Project complete
Helping clinicians and patients navigate electronic patient portals: ethical and legal principles
Shaun Mehta - sd.mehta@mail.utoronto.ca
Project complete
Using administrative data on high system users to call for deeper health system interventions
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Planning/ Thinking stage
Artificial intelligence in emergency medicine: surmountable barriers with revolutionary potential
Kiran Grant - alun.ackery@unityhealth.to
Planning/ Thinking stage
Data collection on patients in emergency departments
in Canada
Brian Rowe - emsgc@nshealth.ca
Planning/ Thinking stage
Challenges presented by a custodian-based medical record access system.
Shaun Mehta - sd.mehta@mail.utoronto.ca
Planning/ Thinking stage
Artificial intelligence in emergency medicine: A scoping review
Abirami Kirubarajan - sam1472@mail.harvard.edu
Planning/ Thinking stage
Do Patients Respond to Posted Emergency Department Wait Times: Time-Series Evidence From the Implementation of a Wait Time Publication System in Hamilton, Canada
Shawn Mondoux - shawn.mondoux@medportal.ca
Project complete
Speed and accuracy of text-messaging emergency department electrocardiograms from a small community hospital to a provincial referral center
Frank Xavier Scheuermeyer - frank.scheuermeyer@gmail.com
Project complete
Implementation and Evaluation of a Wiki Involving Multiple Stakeholders Including Patients in the Promotion of Best Practices in Trauma Care: The WikiTrauma Interrupted Time Series Protocol
Patrick M. Archebault - patrick.m.archambault@gmail.com
Planning / Thinking Stage
Emergency Physician Use of the Alberta Netcare Portal, a Province-Wide Interoperable Electronic Health Record: Multi-Method Observational Study
Timothy AD Graham - tim.graham@ahs.ca
Preliminary data gathering / Baseline
Predicting patient admission from the emergency department using administrative and diagnostic data
David Savage - dsavage@nosm.ca
Preliminary data gathering / Baseline
Co-designing discharge after emergency care (D.DEC)- Summary Report
Samuel Vaillancourt - sam.vaillancourt@utoronto.ca
Ongoing PDSA cycles