Medical Device Informatics Group
Current Projects

Remote Patient Monitoring System

A remote patient monitoring system was developed for improved chronic disease management.  The system utilizes commodity mobile phones and newly introduced Bluetooth-enabled medical devices to transmit patient physiological information from the home to a central repository where alerts and reports can be generated and delivered to both patient and provider.

Nocturnal Home Hemodialysis

Despite the known health benefits of home therapy, many patients feel they cannot accept the responsibility of caring for themselves due to the complexity. A support system was developed to facilitate nocturnal home hemodialysis.

Image Capture System

A digital video capture system that integrates seamlessly into an existing Electronic Patient Record infrastructure was developed to improve the documentation of endoscopic procedures. Still images are sent to the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication system), and videos are sent to a web review application. A standard clinical desktop application is used to unify the review of all patient records, including captured still and video images.

RPM Study

The objective of this project will be to demonstrate the use of vital sign capture and monitoring to enhance the effectiveness of the Ontario Critical Care Response Teams (CCRTs).  This will be facilitated through the capture of vital sign data into an electronic format, applying rules and logic to this data to identify patient deterioration, and generating an automated alert to the appropriate clinician when deterioration is detected.