Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Healthcare industry is on the cusp of a new wave of IT adoption. Interware is Canadian-based company, has been active in the healthcare industry for over a decade supporting clients from across the province and country. They have designed, developed, and managed IT solutions for several health sectors and practices across the country. Use of predictive analytics holds tremendous potential for healthcare sector. Modern technologies and predictive analysis applied in the health sector may address issues such as healthcare data management, monitoring of chronic diseases, patient-to-doctor communication, routine process automation, workflow optimization, patient adherence and treatment control, and others.Predictive analytics in healthcare uses historical data to predict future patterns, results or possible regularities. The Sheridan team, in collaboration with Interware, will design and develop the prototype of the system to retrieve, normalize and analyze data, and suggest the optimal evidence-based solution to be made, allowing for outcome to be personalized to the specific health-care sector, specific scenario or individual client. The system may have the following list of capabilities: read/write access to digital healthcare records (it may include different medical devices, wearable devices/technologies; etc.); data cleaning, curating and normalisation; data retrieval and data visualisation from data repositories; data-driven interactive decision-making system tool; risk calculation based on the selected criteria (set of parameters); updating or resetting of risk prediction models given new data; activation alerts to patients', medical assistance's or providers' devices.