Created in 2000, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation was created to help patients achieve the highest levels of health through information and communication technologies and for health systems make the most use of available resources. The centre is a joint partnership between the University Health Network and the University of Toronto.
The centre’s facilities include:
- A ‘Collaboratory’ (‘Collaboration-Laboratory’) where human, physical and virtual resources are available to develop four core functions: research and development, knowledge exchange, training of highly qualified personnel and research-based business development. The Centre includes physical space to support 60 innovators at any given time, and virtual tools that enable webcasting to 400 different locations, videoconferencing among 80 different sites and data collection from a practically unlimited number of people, through mobile phones, the Web or interactive television, anywhere in the world
- A ‘Health Usability Laboratory’, the first in Canada devoted to the study of eHealth innovations, it enables pre-testing and refinement of computer interfaces and applications, support research on human-machine interaction, and development of new methods to study eHealth innovations
- A ‘Multi-tasking Simulation Environment’, an area that could simulate one or more real-world health-related settings, allowing rigorous testing and rapid improvement of eHealth innovations before they are introduced into real environments. The simulation environment is equipped with high-capacity graphic workstations with supercomputing and server capabilities, data gathering equipment (cameras, video network processors, etc.), high-quality printing devices, complete hardware for the simulation of various modular environments, testing and observation rooms, and work stations.
For more information regarding the Centre of Global eHealth, visit their website at http://www.ehealthinnovation.org/
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