Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis podcast, brought to you by AMS Healthcare, explores the convergence of technology and compassion in healthcare today.
Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare will host conversations between leading researchers, scientists and healthcare providers, as well as patients and caregivers, as they confront the challenges threatening our healthcare system, especially in the face of the pandemic. Join us as they discuss the opportunities for digital health to innovate all aspects of our healthcare today, and tomorrow. They will share their hope for technology, and they will share some cautionary tales about what they are seeing in the field. We hope to foster open and frank discussions about how they think we should integrate technology into the health-care system in a way that enhances – and doesn’t diminish – compassionate care. Because ultimately, we want these discussions to help us all advance the cause of better healthcare for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers everywhere.
If there was ever a time to uphold compassion as the bedrock and guiding principle of healthcare, it’s now! Join us for these illuminating conversations as AMS Healthcare explores “Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare.
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Episodes
Virtual End-of-Life Care w/ Dr. Kieran Quinn and Dr. James Downar
March 27, 2024 11:30 - 34 minutes - 39.2 MBIn this conversation, Kieran Quinn, a general internist and palliative care clinician-scientist at Sinai Health in the Department of Medicine and at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and James Downer, a critical care and palliative care physician in Ottawa, discuss virtual end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://pcpcrc.ca/ - The Pan-Canadian Palliative Care Research Collaborative is a national network of researchers, he...
Leveraging AI to Enable Compassionate and Equitable Community Care and Nursing
February 14, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes - 39.8 MBIn this conversation, Charlene Ronquillo, a Filipina scholar, registered nurse, and health implementation expert at the University of British Columbia School of Nursing, engages in a captivating dialogue with Chantelle Recsky, a dedicated nurse and postdoctoral research fellow. Together, they delve into the crucial topic of "Advancing Compassionate and Equitable Healthcare through Technology." Charlene, an AMS healthcare fellow and compassion and AI advocate, brings her extensive backgrou...
The Compassion Code, Promoting Fairness in AI for Mental Health
January 17, 2024 12:04 - 24 minutes - 28 MBIn this conversation, Laura Sikstrom, a Medical Anthropologist and Project Scientist at The Krembil Center for Neuroinformatics at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, and an AMS Healthcare fellow in Compassion and AI, speaks with Sean Hill, the Director of The Krembil Center for Neuroinformatics, Senior Scientist at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, and Professor at the University of Toronto. They discuss the meaning of fairness in mental health and the concepts used to sup...
Generative AI in Healthcare
November 27, 2023 11:30 - 40 minutes - 45.8 MBIn this conversation Dr. Kumanan Wilson, speaks to Jaron Chong, discuss the opportunities for generative AI in healthcare diagnosis, efficiencies and education today and tomorrow. Dr. Jaron Chong is an Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the Department of Medical Imaging at Western University. He completed diagnostic radiology residency training at McGill University with a Body Cross-Sectional Imaging Fellowship at Yale New-Haven Hospital and a Masters in Health Informatics at t...
Technology, Compassion and the Social Determinants of Health
September 21, 2023 10:30 - 29 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this conversation, Ibukun Abejirinde, a scientist at the Institute for Health System Solutions at Women's College Hospital, and Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and an AMS Healthcare Fellow in Compassion and AI chats with Terence Tang, a General Internal Medicine Physician at Trillium Health Partners, a Clinician Scientist at the Institute for Better Health and an AMS Healthcare Fellow in Compassion and AI. They discuss social det...
Risk Algorithms and Self-Management of Care in Older Adults
June 21, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes - 27.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. Connie Schumacher, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Brock University and an AMS fellow in compassionate AI, and Dr. Andrew Costa, Associate Professor at McMaster University and the Research Director at the St. Joseph's Health System Center for Integrative Care in Hamilton and Connie's mentor, discuss Connie's research on compassion centered communication of risk and self administered online health assessments. St. Joseph's Center for Integrated Care - Centre for Integ...
Digital Monitoring of Stress Responses Among Nursing Professionals
May 24, 2023 10:35 - 27 minutes - 31.2 MBBiographies Gillian Strudwick Bio Venkat Bhat If you wish to participate in the study: https://www.honeybeetrials.com/researcher/018850/a-paid-digital-health-study-for- nurses Program: Interventional Neuropsychiatry Program Study Funder Department of Defense, Canada (IDeAS Program): https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/programs/defence-ideas/element/competitive-projects/challenges/moral-trauma-frontline-see-prevent-treat.html UHT-St. Michael’s link to the Phase ...
Digital Therapeutics Informed by Lived Experience
April 11, 2023 10:30 - 30 minutes - 35.2 MBWelcome to our conversation titled, Digital Therapeutics Informed by Lived Experience. In this conversation Quynh Pham, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator at the Center for Digital Therapeutics at the University Health Network, and an AMS healthcare fellow and Compassionate AI, speaks with Joseph Cafazzo, Biomedical Engineer, Educator and Researcher, and the Wolfond Chair in Digital Health University Health Network. Quynh and Joe engage on digital health, digital therapeutics and...
Designing the Future of Aging in Place
December 13, 2022 13:52 - 40 minutes - 45.9 MBJen Recknagel Director, Innovation and Design, NORC Innovation Centre Jen combines a background in human-centered design to address challenges at the intersection of health and its social determinants. Experienced with executing a variety of service design projects, she is currently the Senior Design Lead at UHN OpenLab, and Director of Innovation and Design at the NORC Innovation Centre. Her work is focused on engaging a diverse set of stakeholders, and using participatory-led approac...
Digital Health Equity
October 17, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this conversation, Benjamin Chin-Yee, an AMS Healthcare Fellow in Compassion and AI Clinical Fellow in Hematology at Western University and Post Doctoral Associate at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western engages with Jay Shaw, an AMS Healthcare Phoenix Fellow Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Toronto and Research Director of AI Ethics and Health at the University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics discuss digital technologies for ...
Digital Peer Support
September 15, 2022 14:13 - 35 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this episode, Sarah Munce, Scientist at the KITE Research Institute at the University Health Network, and Assistant Professor in the department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto, and Jennifer Stinson, Nurse and Clinician Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Science Programs within the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children, discuss virtual peer navigation as an avenue for the delivery of compassionate care for youth, and a smar...
Developing Compassionate Chatbots
July 15, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MBA Conversational Health Chatbot, Bringing Compassion to a Tailored Digital Health Intervention for Women with Heart Disease. Supervisors and Mentors Dr. Elizabeth Peter, Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. Dr. Peter locates her work in feminist health care and will provide mentorship in compassionate care. Dr. Joe Cafazzo, Executive Director, Healthcare Human Factors, University Health Network. Dr. Cafazzo will provide mentorship on digital techn...
Co-Designing Compassion in Digital Healthcare
June 15, 2022 11:30 - 35 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this episode we have two brilliant scientists, both AMS Fellows in AI and Compassion, discussing how important compassion is in the co-design of digital care allowing for buy- in, ownership and engagement for patient, provider and community alike. Carolyn Steele-Gray, PhD Scientist, Toronto’s Bridgepoint Laboratory for Research and Innovation, Sinai Health Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Management Policy Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Unive...
Compassion in Digital Mental Health
May 24, 2022 11:30 - 30 minutes - 34.4 MBIn this conversation Nelson Shen NHA, PhD, and Daniel Buchman PhD, RSW discuss patient data privacy and consent in mental health care. Nelson and Daniel are both working on research that will improve the experience of mental health patients and their relationships with health care providers. If you would like more information on Nelson and Daniel and the important work that they are doing here are some links to get you started: Nelson Shen, NHA, PhD: Scientist at the Center for Addict...
AI Democratizing Access to Parent Child Quality Assessment
May 02, 2022 13:36 - 33 minutes - 37.8 MBIn this conversation Nicole Letourneau RN, BN, MN, PhD, Monica Oxford PhD, and Linda Duffet-Leger PhD, MN, BN discuss their study on mothers with depression and how they are developing a technology to improve the serve and return relationship between caregivers and their children. If you would like more information on Nicole, Monica, and Linda and the important work they are doing here are some links to get you started: Nicole Letourneau RN, BN, MN, PhD: Professor and Research Chair in ...
AI Enabled Compassionate End of Life Care
April 08, 2022 14:10 - 23 minutes - 27.1 MBIn this conversation Amy Hsu PhD, Scientist at Bruyère Research Institute, and Faculty Member of Family Medicine in Ottawa, and Peter Tanuseputro MHSc, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, Public Health Physician at the Bruyère Research Institute and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute discuss AI enabled compassionate end of life care through their life expectancy calculator Project Big Life. Dr. Amy Hsu, PhD: Scientist at Bruyère Research Institute in Ottawa and a Faculty Member in the Department of F...
The Use of Technology in Compassionate Elder Care
January 25, 2022 16:13 - 30 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this conversation Dorothy Kessler PhD, Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Affiliate Scientist at the Bruyère Research Institute, and a 2020 AMS Compassion and AI Fellow and Babak Taati PhD, PEng, Scientist at the KITE Research institute UHN, Assistant Professor at UofT in the Department of Computer Science and the institute of Biomedical Engineering, and 2020 AMS Compassion and AI Fellow discuss the work they are doing in technology to improve the quality of life for aging populat...
Restoring Humanity in Healthcare by Addressing Moral Suffering
December 06, 2021 18:56 - 38 minutes - 44.4 MBIn this conversation Ed Spilg, Geriatrician at the Ottawa Hospital and Research Chair in Physician Wellness at the University of Ottawa and an AMS Phoenix Fellow and Cynda Rushton, a Nurse and Professor of Bioethics and Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University discuss moral distress, moral resilience, and mental health in healthcare workers amidst the Covid 19 Pandemic. If you would like more information on Ed and Cynda and the important work that they are doing here are some links...
The Wellness Journey
November 09, 2021 14:02 - 32 minutes - 37.5 MBIn this conversation Gerrilynn Manitowabi, Associate Director at Wikwemikong Health Centre on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario and Nancy Young, Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa discuss The ACHWM Research Project- A culturally relevant tech-enabled tool that measures and supports the health and wellness of the children in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities in Canada. If you would like more information on key people and...
Building Virtual Relationships
September 15, 2021 14:52 - 43 minutes - 49.2 MBIn this conversation, Alika Lafontaine, @AlikaMD an indigenous physician from northern Alberta and the President -elect nominee of the Canadian Medical Association, and Brian D. Hodges, @BDHodges1 Chief Medical Officer & EVP for Education at University Health Network discuss Building Virtual Relationships. If you would like more information on the items mentioned in this conversation here are a few links to get you started. Connect Care – Alberta Health Services https://www.albertahealth...
Exploring Technologies and Their Impact on Compassionate Digital Care
June 08, 2021 15:34 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MBThis conversation focuses on exploring technologies and their impact on compassionate healthcare and features Laura Desveaux @lauradesveaux, a behavioural scientist at Trillium Health Partners and physician and scientist Amol Verma @AmolAVerma from St Michael’s Hospital. If you would like to learn more about the resources, people and articles mentioned in this podcast here are a few links to get you started. Both Laura Desveaux and Amol Verma are 2020 AMS Healthcare Fellows. If you woul...
Digital Interventions During COVID on Mental Health
June 08, 2021 15:33 - 36 minutes - 41.9 MBToday’s conversation focuses on how digital interventions during COVID impacted the way we deliver compassionate care and features David Wiljer @Wiljerd, from the University Health Network, as well as Gillian Strudwick @GStrudRN and Allison Crawford @TBE_ICRE from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. If you would like to learn more about the resources, people and articles mentioned in this podcast here are a few links to get you started. CAMH Resources for Health Workers: https:...
Teaching Compassion in Digital Healthcare
June 08, 2021 15:31 - 31 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this conversation, Nursing Professor Claire Mallette, Medical Educator Tina Martimianakis @martimianakis, psychiatric resident Erene Stergiopoulos @fullerenes and nursing student Ola Thomas Obewu @olatommi reflect on the challenges of teaching, and learning, compassion in this digital age. If you would like to learn more about the resources, people and articles mentioned in this podcast here are a few links to get you started. Jean Watson Caring Theory The Royal Alexandra Foundatio...
Compassion, Equity and Moral Courage, Reflecting on Lessons From COVID
June 08, 2021 15:30 - 34 minutes - 39 MBIn this conversation, Morag Paton @Morag_Paton, a researcher in higher education at the University of Toronto, and physician and medical educator Ayelet Kuper @Ayeletkuper discuss “Compassion, Equity and Moral Courage” and reflect on lessons from COVID. If you would like to learn more about the resources, people and articles mentioned in this podcast here are a few links to get you started. Toronto Life article “Sunnybrook doctor Ariel Lefkowitz in conversation with Toronto Life editor ...
Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare
June 02, 2021 16:50 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBComing soon from AMS Healthcare, join us for conversations on Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare, an exploration of the convergence of technology and compassion in healthcare today. We will host conversations between leading researchers, scientists, healthcare providers, as well as patients and caregivers, as they confront the challenges threatening our healthcare system, especially in the face of the pandemic. They will discuss the opportunities for digital health to innovate all aspects...