KHSC innovators secure $80,000 for innovative health-care projects

Kingston Health Sciences Centre health-care professionals received $80,000 successful backing astatine the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation’s Discovery Den lawsuit connected Nov. 13 to enactment innovative health-care initiatives.

The event, modelled aft the TV amusement Dragons’ Den, allows KHSC teams to transportation projects aimed astatine improving diligent attraction to a sheet of judges and a unrecorded audience.

The top-funded project, awarded $40,000, was a connection by cardiologist Dr. Aws Almufleh and caregiver practitioner Sam Gouett to supply home-based attraction for unchangeable bosom nonaccomplishment patients. The inaugural involves assemblage wellness workers delivering attraction astatine patients’ homes, coupled with virtual consultations with KHSC cardiologists. The task aims to trim lengthy infirmary stays portion maintaining precocious standards of care. Similar programs person been implemented successful different countries, but this volition beryllium the archetypal of its standard successful Ontario.

“I’m speechless. This is incredible. I tin deliberation of galore patients who would privation this attraction option. It is truthful refreshing to beryllium capable to connection this now,” Almufleh said.

The squad plans to enrol 50 patients wrong 2 years, with the imaginable to prevention the health-care strategy much than $200,000.

Another task led by Drs. Stephanie Sibley and David Maslove received $30,000 to make an artificial quality strategy to foretell atrial fibrillation (Afib), a superior bosom bushed disturbance. By analyzing diligent data, the strategy aims to observe Afib aboriginal and alteration aesculapian unit to instrumentality preventive action.

“This is capable wealth to get the shot rolling and commencement a trial,” Sibley said. “I’m hopeful we’ll commencement seeing results soon and travel backmost adjacent twelvemonth to update everyone.”

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A 3rd project, led by diligent safety, QI and innovation Lead Travis Wing, was awarded $10,000 to grow the Virtual Patient Observation programme astatine KHSC. The funds volition beryllium utilized to instal monitoring instrumentality successful further diligent rooms, enabling attendants to observe aggregate patients astatine erstwhile and alert unit to imaginable incidents.

“By installing further monitoring equipment, we tin summation capableness and supply greater entree to diligent mishap prevention resources,” Wing said.

The Discovery Den lawsuit was judged by a sheet of section concern and assemblage leaders, including representatives from Park Place Financial, Tamarack Homes, Gordon’s Downsizing and Estate Services, WOW FM vigor and Tommy’s restaurant.

“The judges deliberation everyone was brilliant. They touched connected antithetic areas but were each centred connected improving diligent care,” justice Jacqui Collier said.

The backing for Discovery Den comes from an innovation money established by KHSC physicians successful 2016 and the Hugette Lavertu and John Tetlow Innovation Endowment Fund. The 3 selected projects were chosen from much than 25 submissions.