Virtual care will continue long after COVID-19 pandemic ends But the experience helped me learn early in my career how having a shared purpose can bring individuals and teams together to create something lasting and meaningful with collective impact.A few years after SARS, I was on the team tasked with developing and implementing a real-time monitoring and reporting information system for all critical care beds in Ontario.
The outbreak exposed a critical gap in our health system and it needed to be addressed. That project and the team that led it became the foundation for what is now Connected Care at UHN.
Over the past 15 years, we have driven large-scale innovation across the province and helped to build the organization’s skillset,.