Transform-HF
TRANSFORM-Heart Failure aims to enable new healthcare models that are proactive, personalized, and decentralized to improve access to equitable, high-quality heart failure care. TRANSFORM HF unites a diverse team of experts in technology innovation and implementation, basic science, heart failure medicine, data analytics and artificial intelligence, health technology assessment, patient engagement and Indigenous health focused on working collaboratively to advance digital medicine and remote healthcare monitoring technologies in service of its mission. Together with Indigenous organizations and leaders, as well as patients, TRANSFORM HF hopes to create such innovative models in a spirit of allyship and partnership.
How Dr. Heather Ross is leading the charge to make health care accessible for all
Dr. Heather Ross, head of cardiology at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, says providing care for people who wouldn’t normally have access to it is ‘the stuff that gets me out of bed in the morning.’
Transform-HF partnership wins provincial award for innovative cardiac care
WAHA and the UHN cardiovascular team have received and Ontario Health System Quality and Innovation Award for their efforts in developing Medly — a digital health platform designed for patients with heart failure.
Animation on Cree community heart health hits the big screen
The animated short highlights key themes from Weeneebayko Area Health Authority community members’ stories about managing their heart health, including difficulties accessing specialized care close to home and being offered treatment plans that respect their cultural values.
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority works to transform health care with support of UHN
Transform HF, a U of T institutional strategic initiative focused on digital innovation for heart failure care, is also supporting efforts to bring health care closer to home for the region's communities
Designing for Equity: New Grant Advances Digital Innovation for Equitable Heart Failure Care
TRANSFORM HF has been awarded a $1.65 million 6-year NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant to train the next generation of digital health innovators to design for equity. "Translating Cardiovascular Remote Diagnostic and Monitoring Technologies for Equitable Healthcare," or CaRDM Eq, is the first training program of its kind, and one of only 20 initiatives being funded through the national NSERC CREATE program.
Tackling heart failure with a dose of technology: Groundbreakers S2 Ep.3
In Ep. 3 of the Groundbreakers video series, host Ainka Jess explores how researchers with Transform HF, an institutional strategic initiative formed through a partnership between U of T and the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, are helping to save lives by getting critical heart failure tools in the hands of patients across the country, including Indigenous communities in the North.
On-the-Land Indigenous Education Program
September 15 - September 17 FREE Open to TRANSFORM HF trainees, investigators, patients and community partners, this unique three-day On-the-Land Indigenous Education program will enhance culturally-safe, strengths-based and healing-informed clinical and research practices. Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle and Elders and Knowledge Keepers will lead TRANSFORM HF members in conversations that centre the Land-as-teacher, Indigenous Land-based pedagogies, and the […]
Introducing TRANSFORM HF: Digital Innovation for Heart Failure Care
by Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research | May 3, 2021 | News A new partnership between the University of Toronto and the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is forging new collaborations and designing new technologies to reimagine how high-quality, digital approaches to heart failure can be equitably delivered to all Canadians. Heart failure affects at least one million […]