Careteam Technologies

AMAZING NEWS 🎉: We’ve been selected as Honorable Mention by Fast Company 2024 Innovation by Design Awards in the User Experience category! We have from day one considered making lives better for our users as a key dimension of what we do: not just innovation in the technology underpinning of our platform, but equally important to make it easier for the humans using it - the health care providers and the patients/ families. We are molding digital to enable better human connections on the path to better healthcare outcomes. This is the opposite of the healthcare user experience of the last two decades, where well intentioned but poorly designed health technology led to massive physician burnout and great frustration from patients. Fast Company, from their day one, stands as the global leader in all things where innovation in technology, leadership, world changing ideas, creativity meet - it is beyond thrilling to receive this nod from what we see as the equivalent of the Olympics of the innovation space. So honored to see our efforts be recognized alongside designers and businesses that are solving the problems of today and tomorrow, including in the #userexperience category: CODE D'AZUR INTERACTIVE SL, Disney Star, Samsung, Notion, Google, QuSecure, Target, Trove Brands, Kontoor Brands, Inc., Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., Work & Co, Goji Labs, Mercedes-Benz AG, FYI.AI , BASE (Telenet Group), Nomono, ACOMPANY Creative Lab, LLC, Neural DSP, IBM, inCitu, YETI, Albertsons Companies and Brightline. Kudos 👏  to the creative efforts of our Careteam team, in particular of Lisa Taniguchi and Irene Neyman (Yancheva), who brought the founders' vision to reality, and to our long time friends of the company and advisors on how to deepen the human perspective in a digital world Samantha Yarwood, Karyn Zuidinga, Amanda Downs, Tom Shepansky... and of course to all of our partners in co-design - the many many many end users - health providers, administrattors, patients and caregivers - who have spent the time to tell us what works and what needs to be improved so we can better meet their needs. You can find out more about the 2024 #FCDesignAwards: https://lnkd.in/dgCjKTQA #healthinnovation #creativity #leadership #digitalinnovation

Pierre de Coubertin's quote, "The Olympics are a celebration of the human potential and the triumph of the human spirit," symbolizes more than just athletic, mental and physical achievements; they are a testament of resilience, determination, and unwavering spirit of athletes from all corners of the world. At Careteam Technologies, we draw inspiration from the dedication, long hours of training and excellence displayed by these athletes. This pursuit of excellence motivates us to dream big, push boundaries in our work, to innovate, and empower individuals to achieve their own form of greatness. The Olympics remind us that despite our differences, we are united by a common drive to overcome challenges and achieve extraordinary things. This spirit of perseverance and triumph is at the heart of what we do at Careteam Technologies. Pierre de Coubertin (1863 - 1937) was a French educator and historian known as the father of the modern Olympic Games and he would have been no doubt so pleased to have the games take place in his country. France has hosted the Olympic games on six occasions and is scheduled to host a seventh: the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and then the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps. #Olympics #Paris24 #Innovation #Inspiration #Excellence

Thank you, StartUp Health for sharing!! We are very excited to be recognized by Fast Company, a leader in design thinking. 🌟 🚀

HOT OFF THE PRESSES: Appreciate the shout out Canadian Healthcare Technology/ Jerry Zeidenberg! (https://lnkd.in/gW9N963b). User experience has been neglected in healthcare for too long, causing frustrations, inefficiencies and burnout. Great to see investments in making digital health easy to use recognised on the global stage. It is all about humanising digital health and putting humans first! And doing that for healthcare professionals and for patients. Technology can be a force for good when it fits into real life workflows, empowers the human users and makes our lives better. One of our big inspirations was Howard Behar, and his ideas captured in his book "It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks" (https://lnkd.in/gRHPj4Ka?) that he also generously shared with me when I started building out my concepts behind Careteam. THANK YOU Howard!!! Mr. Behar was President of North America and he became the founding President of Starbucks International, opening the very first store outside of North America in Japan. During his tenure, he participated in the growth of the company from only 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. He served on the Starbucks Board of Directors for twelve years before retiring. cc my fellow physician innovators... Eric Cadesky, Kathleen Ross, Alika Lafontaine, Mark Benaroia, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Christopher O'Connor, Jordan Vollrath, MD and many many more...

Great op-ed in the #GlobeandMail from one of our great partners, Carolyn Steele Gray, Canada Research Chair in Implementing #DigitalHealth #Innovation at the Science of Care Institute and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health Canada. Here are some key messages: ⭐ “Care co-ordination requires a collaborative approach, with patients, caregivers and clinicians all working in tandem with the managers and leaders guiding the process, and with the organizations and provincial bodies funding, regulating and governing the system”. ⭐ ”For co-ordination to really occur, information not only needs to be available, but it needs to be understandable by those who read it (including patients), while being available when it is required, and actually fitting in with how our already-overtaxed clinicians and health staff do their work". ⭐ ”There is an opportunity to use this momentum to set up partnerships, funding models, care delivery networks and engagement strategies to ensure information sharing actually leads to the proper co-ordination of care for Canadians”. We support Dr. Steele Gray’s position that while Bill C-72 is a step in the right direction, on its own, it is not sufficient to help with co-ordinating care. It helps address only one key factor of coordination: information sharing. Bill C-72, the Connected Care for Canadians Act, was introduced in June by Health Minister Mark Holland. This Act is designed to allow Canadians secure access to their health data, thereby empowering patients to make informed decisions and enhancing the quality of care they receive from healthcare providers. To read more about her op-ed, please click here: https://lnkd.in/gRVaJXr3 This topic is core to our mission to improve coordinated care and thereby patient outcomes by providing an easy-to-use platform that streamlines communication between primary care providers, patients and their caregivers. We focus on that goal in our joint Care Connector project with Digital Bridge and our partners, Sinai Health System and Trillium Health Partners that improves care transitions from hospital to home using digital technologies.

The inspiring quote we chose for this edition was inspired by the recent post by Tim Murphy with another de Bono quote "You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.” ✨ ✨ ✨ Dr. Edward de Bono, a physician by training, pioneered innovative thinking methods that enabled transformative change in problem-solving and decision-making processes. His insights on creativity, lateral thinking and how to accomplish change have become the bedrock of innovation and creative efforts since. Author of over 60 best seller books, he is perhaps best known for his book about the "Six Thinking Hats", a novel way of investigating an issue from a variety of perspectives that can be used by individuals or groups to move outside habitual ways of thinking, try out different approaches, and then think constructively about how to move forward. One needs to remember that all of these different perspectives are useful and ensure none are forgotten in the planning and analysis of any change initiative: ⚪ White Hat: Focuses on facts, data, and information available or needed. 🔴 Red Hat: Involves emotions, feelings, intuition, and gut reactions. ⚫ Black Hat: Considers risks, potential problems, and critical judgment. 🟡 Yellow Hat: Looks at benefits, opportunities, and positive outcomes. 🟢 Green Hat: Encourages creativity, new ideas, and alternative solutions. 🔵 Blue Hat: Manages the thinking process, sets goals, and outlines agendas. #inspiring #quote #creativity #leadership #healthcare #physician

🏆🏆🏆 Join us as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Neil Squire Society, using technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with disabilities, and organisation where one of our founders Rob Attwell was a long time Board Member and Chair! In the 40 years, they have accomplished: ♿ Over 87,000 persons with disabilities served, with Employment Programs, Computer Tutoring and Assistive Technology Programs, Ergonomic and Assistive Technology Services for Employers and so much more 🏆 One Guinness book of record set, the Makers Making Change initiative for the most people to take an online assistive technology lesson in 24 hours ⭐ Thousands of participants, staff, volunteers, partners, and supporters. The legacy of Neil Squire who at 21 years old after surviving a terrible car accident, paralysed from the neck down and could hardly speak, yet decided to use this challenge to make a difference in the world reminds of the story of another Canadian Rick Hansen and all of his achievements for people with disabilities - real life inspiring heroes to whom we collectively owe so much. Please take 5 min to see the awesome dynamic historical timeline https://lnkd.in/eMRUA_n? and the video with the story of the Neil Squire and the Society he created https://lnkd.in/gZyuYVYr use technology to benefit people with disabilities. So INSPIRING!!!!! Join us in celebrating all that they have accomplished in the last 40 years! #celebration #milestones #leadership #peoplewithdisabilities #change

We are in a moment that demands decisive choices and strategic investments into new ways and tools for health care, as doing more, faster and longer is burning our clinicians and creating massive access to care issues. Whoever says AI, says the need for lots of quality data. In order leverage the new investments in health data platforms, so we can build the world’s leading health science ecosystem, we need to get the data right, and this is why CityAge has convened the #TheNextEvolutioninHealth: Our AI & Health Data Opportunity Summit today, June 25 in Vancouver, where senior decision makers gather to discuss the latest on: * Maximizing AI and harnessing data for groundbreaking research and service delivery. * Unleashing the power of our world-leading genomic human data sets to drive innovation and attract investments. * Investing in cutting-edge design and health districts for our healthcare infrastructure. * Upskilling the workforce to support the adoption of these advancements. Look forward to hearing from: Victoria Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fraser Health Authority Martin Wright, ADM, Health Sector Information, Analysis and Reporting, Government of British Columbia Ministry of Health, and Dr. Alexandra T. Greenhill, MD's fellow Board member at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Brian Simmers., CFO and Vice President, Health Informatics and Corporate Development at Providence Darryl Knight, VP Research & Academic Affairs, Providence Health Care and President, Providence Research, David Seymour, VP and General Manager, Microsoft, Handol Kim, Co-Founder & CEO, Variational AI and many more Dr. Greenhill, Careteam Technologies founder CEO and Chief Medical Officer, and co-editor of the #AI in Clinical Medicine book, will be moderating the panel: "Accelerating AI Startups in Health Care" with Tiffany Chiu, Vice President, Communications, AbCellera Maryam Sadeghi, CEO & Co-Founder, MetaOptima Technology Inc. Hugh MacNaught, President and CEO, Ventripoint Diagnostics Ltd. Lloyd Jura, Ph.D., Professor, New York Institute of Technology, and former CIO Fraser Health Authority #HealthData #AI #LifeSciences #HealthcareInnovation #TheDataEffect #Vancouver #thedataeffect #buildthefuture Looking forward to seeing you there!

We need to better guide and support patients across the options available to them in our complex health system, and it's a thrill to see a partnership come together to make this a reality for people in the Mississauga region with the launch of the Mississauga Health Seniors Navigation Portal! It has been wonderful to work under the leadership of Partners Community Health, Trillium Health Partners and the Mississauga Health (Mississauga Ontario Health Team M-OHT), together with Caredove, Central Registry and many others, to make this come together. Thank you to the Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) and the National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada for the funding and the support too! This portal is a comprehensive digital system designed to support older adults in living well at home by helping connect them digitally with the services they need and also provide access to a care navigator for assistance, services such as meals and food security, transportation services, home support, exercise programs, day programs, respite care, and more. All of our efforts with Baycrest's Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), DIGITAL, AGE-WELL NCE Inc., AARP Innovation Labs, C2MP, StartUp Health labs led to this day! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eHvkdMuf #healthinnovation #aginginplace #digitalhealth #carenavigation

Will you be there? Let me know at the link (and if you can't make it do take a look at the awesome program line up, and bookmark this for next year). Excited for three days of interesting conversations about all things hashtag #digitalhealth hashtag #healthinnovation! Digital Health Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Canada Health Infoway have teamed up to deliver one mega-awesome event. hashtag #ehealth2024 should be fantastic! Looking forward to seeing many colleagues, partners and customers, and meeting many new ones, all united on the quest to use technology to make healthcare better. On the agenda: - #AIinHealthcare - #ConnectedCare and #Interoperability - #DigitalHealthEquity and Access - Digital Technology and Healthcare Human Resources - Health Data Management, Security and Privacy - #PatientEngagement and #patientEmpowerment To learn more about our work, we are doing three presentations with some of our partners, and you can also come by our booth #78, first one after the registrations desk. Here are the three sessions: 🗓️ May 27th at 10:45am - 11:00am Embracing Technology and AI in Patient Centered Healthcare: Insights from the perspective of patient organizations Location: Breakout Room 2 - Fairview Ballroom IV - Dr. Alexandra T. Greenhill, Careteam 🗓️ May 27th at 2pm - 2:30pm Right care at the right time: Innovative, patient-centric digitally enabled program design, delivery and scaling. Location: Breakout Room 5 - Granville II - Sonia Kumar (by video), BODY BRAVE - Dr. Karen Trollope-Kumar (by video), BODY BRAVE - Dr. Alexandra T. Greenhill, Careteam 🗓️ May 27th at 3:30pm - 4pm Co-creation and Implementation of TrustSphere: a Digital Ecosystem for Collaborative Clinical Care & Research. - Dr. Shazhan Amed, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver - Benjamin Wan, Provincial Health Services Authority - Rob Attwell, Careteam And the most exciting perhaps is the debate we will have about AI at the CHIEF meeting on Wed with Heidi Giesbrecht, Darren Larsen, Kim McGrail, together with Alexandra T. Greenhill, MD, moderated by Marc Koehn!