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An article co-authored by Professor McGregor and her former PhD student was recognized in October as the 3rd most cited article in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in the 5 years since 2007. |
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We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to our 2012 graduates from Health Informatics Research at UOIT: 4th Year Research Practicum Students Danielle Andrew - Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) Ashley Chambers - Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) Adela Chau - Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) Jade Reville - Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) Jordan Whately - Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) Josie Cirelli - Bachelor of Allied Health Sciences (Honours) Further congratulations to Jade Reville was one of the 2012 recipients of the UOIT Student Leadership award. We wish all our graduates the very best for a bright and rewarding future. Professor Carolyn McGregor |
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The research practicum work of Andrea Steadman, from the 2010/11 4th year Health Sciences Research Practicum, was a joint recipient for the Student Best Paper Award at the Advances in Health Informatics Conference (AHIC). AHIC is the flagship conference of the National Institutes for Health Informatics, Canada. The paper is entitled “Using PaJMa to Enable Comparative Assessment of Health Care Processes within Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Units”. The paper was co-authored with her Research Practicum supervisors: Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Jennifer Percival, and Dr. Andrew James. The work was completed as part of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute funded research awarded to Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Jennifer Percival and Dr Andrew James. We would like to congratulate Andrea and all those involved for this achievement! |
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Fewer sick babies Back in Toronto, the hospital is processing its data in real time using IBM's InfoSphere Streams, software that can correlate and analyze thousands of real-time data sources. The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is using the software to collect streaming data from electronic devices that monitor the premature babies. The technology is giving UOIT the ability to make sense of the data and analyze it in ways that include, they hope, discovering the onset of sepsis and various other conditions before these problems occur, says Dr. Carolyn McGregor, the Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics at UOIT. This test has been running in parallel with current clinical practice so doctors and scientists can compare the two approaches, which they are currently in the process of doing. One day's worth of data is copied and sent back to UOIT for the offline analytics component. The platform, known as Artemis, or "data baby," has been input with a set of clinical rules that serve as a layer of analytics to help it make predictions for the first time, says McGregor, who is also a professor and associate dean at UOIT. Today, medical devices at the bedside give broad information, she explains. Devices provide readings at a very high frequency, but "a human has to be able to analyze" the results, which are "constantly changing," McGregor says. Final results have not yet been released -- they're expected sometime in late April for peer review and should be public by year-end. But initial results have proven Artemis's "robustness as an approach," McGregor says. The study, of over 400 patients in three sites, has collected "the equivalent of two decades of patient years" worth of data, she explains. |
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The HIR team at UOIT would like to congratulate Agam Dhanoa, one of our alumni who completed his Masters HSc (Health Informatics) and is now a decision support analyst at the University Health Network. |
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The Artemis research made it as a top story on the CFI website on February 2, 2012. You can view the article here: http://www.innovation.ca/en/ResearchInAction/OutcomeStory/Vitalsigns |
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