Wednesday, October 14, 2026

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

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Overview

Dr. Amol Verma, Co-lead, Gemini and Vital Data Platforms Temerty Professor of AI Research and Education, University of Toronto

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Details

Content: • Vital: A multi-provincial infrastructure for research, innovation, and health system improvement using clinical hospital data • Establishing data pipelines to extract and standardize data from hospitals • Technological and procedural controls to protect patient privacy • Secure computing centres in each province and territory • Central research and analytics environment connecting provincial/territorial nodes in a federated network • Harmonizing data governance policies across jurisdictions • Streamlining data access and enhancing efficiency of large-scale research • How Vital aims to support quality improvement collaboratives like CCSQA