News
The stories we’re telling these days.
Here are some updates of the impact and experiences our team is going through in our journey to help patients and families live well beyond illness.
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Karen Young, “Kevin J. Leonard Award” 2023 Recipient
June 5, 2023
During the April 19, 2023 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) Research and Impact Day, I presented the annual “Kevin J. Leonard Award” in person to tenth recipient, Karen Young. Drawing from lived experience, and with enthusiasm and energy, Karen is driven to ensure our healthcare system recognizes and supports the ability of all patients to be active partners in their care.
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CDTx Places First at the ICAIR Power Play Innovative Concept Pitch Competition
May 8, 2023
We are so proud of Camilla Benmessaoud, Product Manager at CDTx, who represented us at the ICAIR 2023 Conference and presented on Caretown for the Power Play Innovative Concept Pitch. She came in first place and received $2,500 which will go entirely towards funding patient engagement initiatives in the lab.
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AMS Podcast: Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare
April 11, 2023
In this conversation, Dr. Quynh Pham, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator at CDTx and an AMS Fellow, speaks with Dr. Joseph Cafazzo, a Senior Scientist at CDTx. Quynh and Joe engage on digital health, digital therapeutics and the lived stories that have inspired their groundbreaking work.
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“Alexa, launch Medly”: An Introduction to Medly Voice
February 17, 2023
Antonia’s MASc thesis aimed to expand the reach of the Medly program to make it more accessible by offering it on another platform besides the smartphone. Given the recent emergence of voice apps in the digital health field and compelling attributes of the platform they are delivered on, Antonia saw the potential it could deliver to a program like Medly.
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University Health Network and Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Collaboration
January 25, 2023
UHN and Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. have partnered to address a critical need of heart failure patients. The objective of the partnership is to expand patient reach of UHN’s successful Medly Program— an innovative, digital therapeutic solution that delivers the benefits of specialized clinical heart failure management , improves quality of life, and reduces hospitalizations!
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AGE-WELL 2022 Conference: The Future is Us.
November 11, 2022
What do you get when you put together ageing, technology, the Centre for Digital Therapeutics, a bunch of academics, people with lived experience, Pepper the Robot (many Peppers, actually), and industry folks in Regina? The 2022 EPIC-AT Annual Meeting and AGE-WELL Conference, of course! The Future is Us! Better Together!
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Paula Voorheis, “Kevin J. Leonard Award” 2022 Recipient
October 6, 2022
Paying tribute to Kevin’s tireless advocacy on behalf of patients, the “Kevin J. Leonard Award” was established at IHPME in 2013 and first presented in May 2014. As Kevin’s widow and proud member of the Award Selection Committee, I am pleased to announce Paula Voorheis as the 2022 and ninth recipient of the “Kevin J. Leonard Award”.
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A New Chapter: The Centre for Digital Therapeutics
September 6, 2022
We are proud to announce our new chapter as the Centre for Digital Therapeutics. After 20 years as the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, we are rebranding to reflect our evolution towards developing digital therapeutics informed by lived experience. We will be returning to our roots in R&D and developing digital therapeutics informed by emerging theory and practice.
