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Integrated Care
Patients seamlessly transition home with one care team, one digital record and a 24/7 phone line — helping more than 2,500 patients return to their communities, with plans to support 10,000 a year.
Innovation
Embracing technology to serve patients and find answers.
Over the past year, UHN moved to inspire, invent and deliver tomorrow's care — unlocking new ways to give patients the care they demand and deserve.
Synapse · Epic Go-Live
A new generation of patient care.
With the push of a symbolic button, UHN marked a major milestone in its clinical transformation as the new health information system from Epic went live. Clinical teams had been wanting a new HIS for years and the planning of the implementation began before COVID-19. While it was challenging to keep the project on track during the worst waves of the pandemic, UHN made it a priority because improvements to patient safety could no longer wait.
Synapse
Project codename for the Epic implementation.
- · One digital patient record across the network
- · Modernized clinical education & research
- · Improved patient safety and continuity
“Teamwork, technology and bold thinking are essential to transforming the ways that health care is delivered and putting patients first — goals UHN shares with Mayo Clinic.”
Connected Care
Care that follows the patient home.
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Virtual Emergency Department
UHN's Connected Care Clinical Hub, virtual care and Virtual ED bridge systemic barriers to care outside hospital walls.
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Allo@Home
Princess Margaret's program lets hematologic patients receiving allogeneic stem cell transplants access much of their care at home — avoiding weeks in hospital.
Global collaboration
Joining Mayo Clinic's Platform_Connect.
UHN became a founding member of Mayo Clinic's Platform_Connect, a global distributed data network designed to enable the creation of new health care solutions driven by data science and artificial intelligence.
Alongside UHN, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Brazil and Sheba Medical Center in Israel joined Mercy and Mayo Clinic in the United States as founding members — a first-of-its-kind global alliance among large health care systems that transcends language and other barriers.
The platform enables federated learning that keeps "Data Behind Glass" in member institutions, while unlocking discovery, validation and implementation of new data-driven algorithms informed by AI — ensuring each system maintains control over its de-identified data.