FEATURE REPORT: DEVELOPMENTS IN COMMUNITY CARE – SEE PAGE 16 Publications Mail Agreement #40018238
CANADA’S MAGAZINE FOR MANAGERS AND USERS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE
VOL. 30, NO. 6
SEPTEMBER 2025
INSIDE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PAGE 12 Reactivation centre Peterborough Regional Health and tech giant Cisco have partnered on a Reactivation Centre, where new technologies are being deployed to speed up the recovery of patients. Page 4
Montreal Heart
PHOTO: HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES
The Montreal Heart Institute has opened a heart valve facility and intends to become a global centre of excellence in valve repair and the development of new technologies. Page 6
Wound care BC’s Interior Health Authority has been using Pixalere’s digital wound software for remote coordination and real-time access to images. Outcomes have included improvements in wound healing time and referrals conducted on time or sooner. Page 18
Flowing bedside data into the EHR Hamilton Health Sciences has partnered with Philips Capsule to integrate a wide range of critical-care devices at the bedside – including patient monitors and ventilators – with the hospital’s Epic electronic medical record system. The enterprise-wide solution has transformed the way patient data is shared with clinicians. Pictured above is registered nurse Stefanie Gasse. SEE STORY ON PAGE 6.
Trillium Health launches drive into AI-powered solutions BY J E R R Y Z E I D E N B E R G
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rillium Health Partners recently broke ground on The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital and Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children, a facility that will become the largest hospital in Canada upon its completion, scheduled for 2033. The new hospital, a 23-storey structure with over 950 private rooms for patients and 23 operating rooms, is designed to keep up with demand for medical services in one of the country’s most ethnically diverse and fastest-growing regions. Uniquely, Trillium Health Partners is also developing a wide range of AI-enabled technologies to provide healthcare services bet-
ter than ever before – not just in the new hospital, but community-wide. “Healthcare is getting more complex, and there’s a growing mismatch between supply and demand,” said Dr. Sam Sabbah, chief of staff at Trillium Health Partners. “We’re
Trillium Health Partners has launched a $25 million fund to fuel its AI development program. building Canada’s largest hospital, but if we don’t change the delivery of care, we’re going to end up with more patients in the hallway.” To ensure that patients are being treated quickly and appropriately, Trillium Health Partners is devising its own set of AI-pow-
ered solutions. Indeed, it has launched a $25 million fund-raising effort to this end, to ensure that it has the financial support it needs to produce the solutions it sees as most useful. “Some of the solutions will be used in the hospital, but our vision goes far beyond our walls,” said Dr. Sabbah. Already, the hospital’s team of approximately 60 developers involved in data, analysis and AI solutions has, among other things, devised an AI-enabled dashboard to track and help manage diabetes in the community – known as Peel Region. “We’ve created a diabetes dashboard that can tell us who is at risk for diabetes and developing complications,” said Dr. Laura C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2