Related Information:

Health Information Value Proposition Diagram

IBM Toronto Software Lab Video Innovation Profile

 
Contact:

David Findlay
Director, ICT
1 416 673 6677 

The Toronto Region is home to a strong Health Informatics cluster  

• Domain training in informatics
• Specialized technical IT skills
  
  

• IBM Canada
  
  

• Ontario health care system
• Hospitals
• Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP)
• Private insurers
  
  

• Access to 13 million patient records database over 150 hospitals corporations (225 sites)
• Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies (ICES)
• Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto (opens in 2010 although some programs are active)
• Certicom Corporation encryption software
• BioInformatic Solutions Co. algorithms
• AGFA Inc - IT-enabled work flow systems
• DataGlider portal technology
  
  

• Ontario Health System investments to connect data
• Secure systems, algorithms, computer engineering at University of Waterloo, University of Toronto (UofT), McMaster University
• $1.2 billion government investment in Canada Health Infoway, a federally funded independent organization established to accelerate the use of electronic health records across Canada.
• Cancer Care Ontario ( Provincial agency that directs $500 million in public funding for cancer prevention, detection and treatment)
• Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research
• Ontario Institute of Cancer Research
  
  

• Ontario's $64 million budget for e-Health programs
• Scientific Research and Experimental Design (SRED) Tax Incentive programs