“ The pandemic was a wake up call , which points out very concretely the directions in which we need to be going to better serve the population in our territory ”
— Dr Lawrence Rosenberg , Jewish General Hospital
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A big component of their digital strategy is innovation . Danina Kapetanovic joined in April 2020 , with a mandate to strengthen the organisation ’ s culture of innovation and spearhead the new Connected Health Innovation Hub . Called ‘ Orot ’, which means ‘ illumination ’ in Hebrew , the hub will enable them to form partnerships with industry and implement new technologies .
“ Innovation is the means to an end , and this end is our vision of “ care everywhere ”” Kapetanovic explains . In Quebec and Canada we have an increasingly aging population , and although they live longer they aren ’ t necessarily healthier . We ’ re looking at ways in which we can make our healthcare system sustainable in order to meet the growing needs of the demographic change .”
“ We turn to innovation because we believe that with the technology that exists out there in the age of information , with the advent of machine learning , artificial intelligence , cybersecurity , big data science and analytics , we can strengthen our system and add value ,
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