“The best ideas will be ideas that will have a significant impact on health and health care, ideas that are innovative,” said Jennifer Zelmer, Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption and Innovation, at Canada Health Infoway.
Infoway is a not-for-profit group funded by the federal government to work with health care professionals, governments, health organizations, and IT vendors to ensure health care providers have the critical information they need to give the best possible care to Canadians.
In the organization’s ImagineNation Ideas Challenge, the ideas submitted can be very high-tech, such as equipment utilized in intensive care units, or concepts that use common types of ICT like computers and mobile phones.
They could also be creative ways of using the Internet, social media, or other tools, offering solutions that could be adopted in long-term care facilities or homecare, get kids more active in their communities, or advance standards to allow different jurisdictions to share their resources.
Infoway will be looking for benefits in three areas: quality of care, access to care, and productivity.
