Digital Health Canada

We connect, inspire, and empower the digital health professionals contributing to the future of healthcare in Canada.

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How a Canadian cardiologist built a portable ‘hospital in a Pelican case’ - https://t.co/YFjL8DVP2d @begiantca

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Why Canada’s health Innovation bottleneck is adoption, not invention and how the Waterloo Region’s health-technology ecosystem is fixing innovation - https://t.co/SeTVdxg5yH @UWaterloo

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Digital healthcare project 'making a difference' - https://t.co/hgoN4RWiHg

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The @CHEO Research Institute’s world-first pediatric AI algorithm, ThinkRare, will soon be used in other pediatric centres across Canada – marking one of the first national deployments of a real-time, clinically embedded AI tool in pediatric care. - https://t.co/1Wyn1Lckbu

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With support from @OBIOscience, @HamHealthSci McMaster Children’s Hospital has a new tool, the Trexo Plus, designed by Mississauga-based Trexo Robotics, to support patients needing pediatric rehabilitation. https://t.co/3qG9bX8DJS

[LGI Healthcare Solutions | LGI Solutions Santé @LGISolutions]

Register now: https://t.co/fOb9yPAtpW 📢
[WEBINAR] Building a Resilient Healthcare Workforce

Join LGI & Cegid ​in collaboration with @DigiHealthCA to explore smarter workforce management.

#HealthcareHR #WorkforceManagement #TalentRetention #DigitalHealthCanada

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We are pleased to welcome Pathways BC to the Digital Health Canada membership community. Pathways is a trusted online directory of healthcare providers, services, and clinical resources that supports clinicians in British Columbia. Learn more at https://t.co/mlkeD3HPnE

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We are delighted to welcome DCM to the Digital Health Canada membership community. DCM is dedicated to improving critical healthcare communications and operations. Learn more about them at https://t.co/AGXn9Yu08J

[Bo Wang @BoWang87]

Over the past year, there’s been a surge of excitement around agentic AI — systems that don’t just answer questions, but can act: reading instructions, running code, designing pipelines, and making decisions.

In biomedicine, this raises a provocative question:

💡 Could the next member of your ML team be an AI agent?
The honest answer — not yet.

Today, we share BioML-bench, a new open benchmark to measure how far today’s agents are from this vision, and what it will take to get there.

📄 Paper : https://t.co/MI6Wxq3CWK

💻 Code: https://t.co/yIG7JIOKjm

Why this matters
Biomedical discovery doesn’t happen in a single step.
It’s messy, iterative, and deeply interdisciplinary: cleaning data, choosing models, validating results, integrating diverse domains like genomics, imaging, and clinical records.

Existing evaluations — mostly Q&A or coding challenges — don’t capture this complexity.
We needed a testbed that reflects the real work of biomedical ML.

What we built

BioML-bench is a suite of 24 real biomedical ML tasks where agents must:
--Parse nuanced task descriptions
--Build and train models end-to-end
--Compete against human leaderboards populated by domain experts

It’s the first benchmark designed to ask: Can an agent truly operate like a biomedical data scientist?

What we learned
Our experiments with four different agents — from general-purpose systems to biomedical specialists — reveal a sobering truth:
--Current agents operate at ~35% of human expert performance.
--Domain specialization alone isn’t enough. Success comes from flexible, creative strategies, not rigid pipelines.
--Even on imaging tasks, deep learning was underutilized, highlighting a gap between human and agent intuition.

Looking ahead
The promise of agentic AI isn’t to replace human scientists — it’s to amplify them.
Imagine a future where an agent can set up a first-pass analysis overnight, freeing a scientist to focus on questions, not debugging scripts.

We’re not there yet. But with BioML-bench, we now have a shared yardstick to track progress, spark innovation, and bring accountability to this emerging field.

Grateful to our amazing team — led by @Henrymiller2012 , with contributions from Matthew Greenig, Benjamin Tenmann, and support from @SciMac.

This work is a small but necessary step toward a future where AI becomes a true partner in biomedical discovery. 🌱

#AI #Biomedicine #Agents #MachineLearning #BioML

[JMIR Publications @jmirpub]

Call For Papers 📣 JMIR Biomedical Engineering invites submissions for a theme issue on AI Applications in Biomedical Engineering

Learn More: https://t.co/M9B15MA7W5
Editor-in-Chief: @Prof_Dr_S_Rizvi

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SickKids named world’s best children’s hospital https://t.co/H8MuCi72by

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@Infoway We are looking forward to it!

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No more ‘garbage in, garbage out’: U of T rolls out health data repository for AI researchers - https://t.co/60ddnDTf5A

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The Ontario government has introduced the Health Innovation Pathway, a new system aimed at streamlining the review and adoption of healthtech solutions. https://t.co/UUGOCQbNv0

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We are pleased to welcome @SEHealth_SEHC to the Digital Health Canada membership community! SE Health is a leading social enterprise and one of the largest diversified home health organizations in Canada. Learn more at https://t.co/z6Na51vRtk

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@VCHhealthcare's new Break Wave Lithotripsy procedure uses low-intensity sound waves to break up kidney stones. Anesthesia is not required for this 30-minute trial procedure and patients can drive themselves to and from the hospital. https://t.co/OfYEIQDcsb

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@providence_care's new Centre for Digital Health Research (CDHR) will serve as a regional hub for collaboration, research and innovation at the intersection of healthcare and digital technology. https://t.co/kWOadxp0RL

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Establish the right conditions for the successful implementation of AI-driven solutions with the guidance of the experts interviewed in 📔 Setting the Winning Conditions for AI-powered Healthcare (the latest CHIEF Executive Forum initiative) - https://t.co/DXvQJdw8Vd