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2010 Community IT Hero Award Winner Metabolic Health Monitor Tool (MHM) More than 500,000 Canadians are prescribed lifelong antipsychotic medications due to serious mental illness. These patients are at increased risk for weight gain, high blood pressure and diabetes, all of which can lead to heart disease and premature mortality. The electronic Metabolic Health Monitor tool (MHM), developed by Dr. Tony Cohn, allows mental health inter-professional teams to track metabolic parameters, facilitating early intervention and health promotion. The MHM is a simple and effective monitoring tool which is part of a Web-based electronic patient record system aiding clinicians in tracking key metabolic risk markers. The tool is administered upon admission, and then annually or when a new antipsychotic is prescribed.
2010 Corporate IT Hero Award Winner Dyadem - Stature The recent oil spill that began when a rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico has had a devastating effect on life and the environment. This event was senseless - and avoidable. Dyadem offers innovative solutions to help prevent catastrophic events and mitigate the harm and devastation associated with product and process failures. Stature, a web-based enterprise software platform, allows customers to identify, measure and mitigate risk and quality issues through a series of integrated software modules, designed to manage different aspects of risk management initiatives, which are both standards-based and compliance-based. This results in improved safety, health and environmental compliance with the goal of zero incidents, and the ability to produce high quality products that conform to both design and regulatory requirements
PAST WINNERS 2009 Community IT Hero Award Winner Ryerson University - Canine Augmentation Technology (CAT)
For the past 3 years, Professor Ferworn of Ryerson University has worked with the Provincial Emergency Response Team (PERT) of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to enhance the performance of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) dogs in finding people trapped in the debris and rubble of buildings that have suffered a structural collapse. As a result, he developed a system called Canine Augmentation Technology (CAT) that fits durable low-light/infrared fisheye cameras on to the dogs, encodes their video and transmits it via a ruggedized WiFi network back to emergency workers who can see what is around the dog even when they are unable to follow the dog. The workers can then remotely operate a mechanism to release a package containing food, water and a radio to the victim.
2009 Corporate IT Hero Award Winner GE Healthcare Canada - Emergency Neuro Image Transfer System (ENITS)
In the absence of a provincial image exchange system to support tele-consult, diagnosis, and emergency medical transfer decisions, an expert panel on neurosurgery recommended the adoption of a solution that would provide timely access to CT neurosurgical images for consultation and assessment purposes. This led to eHealth Ontario’s launch of the Emergency Neuro Image Transfer System (ENITS). Taking the need for a unique Neuro-treatment workflow in hand, GE developed an optimized IT solution designed to enhance clinical access to patient images, all the while leveraging existing imaging investments in GE technology by the London Ontario Hospitals (SWO). As a result, Ontario patients who require critical and life preserving care now have timely access to the best available Neurologists or Neurosurgeons, regardless of patient or clinician location. ENITS will also be used by on-call Neurologists from the Ontario Telemedicine Network to consult in emergency care in the Telestroke program.
2008 Community IT Hero Award Winner
City of Moncton - Downtown WiFi Network The City of Moncton has created a free downtown Moncton outdoor network for wireless Internet technology by installing the first outdoor wireless mesh network. The project’s goals included:
2008 Corporate IT Hero Award Winner
Telus - Upopolis Upopolis is Canada’s first private online social network for hospitalized kids, created to help children and youths, who often feel isolated, stay connected to their friends, families and teachers. Through a unique partnership with Kids’ Health Links Foundation (KHLF), TELUS donated technology services to develop Upopolis, and worked closely with KHLF and McMaster Children’s Hospital to pilot the program. Features include a personal profile, secure mail, instant chat, discussion boards, personal blogs and links to child-friendly games with the privacy and safety that parents expect. It also features a homework application to help kids stay up-to-date with their schoolwork and links to child-friendly general health information and specific information about the tests and procedures that they may have in the hospital. The medical content was developed by KHLF in partnership with the Hospital. McMaster Children’s Hospital was the first to launch Upopolis in December, 2007. The program will continue to evolve as it rolls out to children’s hospitals across the country in partnership with KHLF.
2007 Community IT Hero Award Winner Kayla Cornale - Sounds into Syllables
Inspired by challenges faced by her ten year-old relative, Kayla Cornale created a music-based teaching system called Sounds into Syllables. By linking the musical components of pitch and harmony, this system helps autistic children learn to read, spell, classify words and correctly identify facial expressions for a series of emotions. The purpose of Sounds into Syllables is to assist autistic children in learning to identify letters, words and sentences so they may one day be able to read. Scientific research indicates that many autistic children have difficulty processing language. Kayla developed a teaching system that incorporates language in a spoken, written and musical format in the hope of simultaneously activating multiple areas of the brain and in so doing improve the ability to learn language.
2006 Community IT Hero Award Winner
Children’s Aid Society - Cyber Bus The 2006 IT Hero weighed about 7 tonnes, boasted 275 horsepower and could go from 0 to 40 in about a minute and a half, which was not bad for a bus. Cyber Bus is a brilliant new project from the Volunteer Services Department of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto. The bus can sometimes be found parked in Regent Park where it provides all the facilities of a state of the art computer lab to a community that would otherwise find itself on the other side of the digital divide. Cyber Bus was created with the belief that the developmental, educational and social connections provided by the internet and computers should be available to all children regardless of their economic circumstances. It serves children aged 7-13, providing them not only with computers, but the guidance and encouragement of a number of volunteer Cyberguides. These Cyberguides were recruited from current and former youth in care who were either out of school or out of work. They have been trained to provide their young charges with individual support and training in the use of technology. In very many ways, this bus carries education, fellowship and self-esteem.
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