#FlashForward II is a hands-on, educational program for senior, high school CommTech students. Teams from local schools will compete to produce the most compelling short videos for The Ottawa Hospital. This 10–week program is unique, as it has no teachers, no homework and no tests. Continue reading
Wow where did summer and fall go. Lots to update and I never did tell you about those summer projects, so here goes:
Summer Projects: We worked with Privacy Analytics to help virtualize testing and certification for the emerging field of data anonymization which is critical for sharing large clinical data sets . We brought together diverse expertise to help build a STEMI (ST Segment Myocardial infarction) recognition game for planetECG. This game embeds pattern recognition skills for healthcare professionals to identify the emergent need for life saving procedures. Continue reading
Well it has been a hectic place here lately, but time to catch the blogosphere up.
Big Win, Winners all around: Back in April our after school program (#FlashForward) with The Ottawa Hospital had a big win taking 1st Place at the College’s Applied Research Day (April 11, 2014). Shortly thereafter the red carpet came out and the high schools teams (along with their College student mentors) presented their patient Continue reading
The Qualcomm XPRIZE Tricorder Competition is a phenomenal opportunity for our students to participate in a prestigious global competition. This applied research project is bringing together Algonquin College students, faculty, and private industry and has the potential to create ground-breaking advances in affordable health care.
“What would happen if the whole world came together for one week every year to focus on what’s new and important in health and medicine?”
Algonquin College is about to find out when it hosts TEDMED Live 2014. TEDMED is conference held once a year created by the founders of Ted talks. Continue reading
In Spring 2014, an interdisciplinary group of students from Algonquin College, Ottawa, will train local birth attendants in newborn resuscitation and work with children and youth on a health and wellness project in the Bunda District, Tanzania. The students will deliver part of the training using an augmented reality application they built themselves with NGRAIN© Augmented Reality. To learn more, visit www.facebook.com/breathoflife2014 or follow the team on Twitter: @BreathOfLife14
A client’s collaborative research project focused on bringing accessible clothing to the disabled was recently featured on CBC Ottawa. This project was conducted in collaboration with the Health and Wellness Research Centre (Office of Applied Research and Innovation) and supported through funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Learn more about this inspiring and exciting project here.
Measured by almost any metrics (and we measure a lot) 2013 has been a banner year for the Health and Wellness Research Centre. But what is not captured in our metrics is perhaps the most important, and that is nuance. Nuance is described by the Oxford dictionary as a “shade of meaning” and there is an awful lot of that in what we do. While I can report Continue reading
In my last post I mentioned that that while the hallways may be quiet in the summer, behind closed doors the Health and Wellness Research Centre remains active. So let us open the doors for a peak behind the scenes. Just recently I spent an amazing morning with Aliasgar Morbi, Richard Beranek & Kyle Klumper from GaitTronics. Continue reading