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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23h

DHIF advances collaborative, data-driven research through a federated learning platform. Our second DHIF RFA launches October buff.ly/wjQxST6 Funded through ISED, DHDP focuses on improving health outcomes for Canadians by bringing together industry & academic experts to advance #precisionmedicine

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23h

Based in Montreal, the project will create a scalable system for improving daily patient safety, where safety tools automatically flag risky dosing patterns in near real-time, protecting patients and also readying Canadian hospitals for next generation AI-driven #precisionmedicine research.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23h

The lack of standard language across medical records makes it difficult for doctors to see the complete picture. By using international standards, the project team is making sure different systems can talk to each other, to transform siloed records into accessible for clinicians and researchers.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Medication data is often fragmented and poorly standardized between hospitals. This can lead to preventable dosing errors and hinder medical research. This Digital Health Innovation Fund project is exploring how to enable full data shareability for AI analytics accessibility. buff.ly/hiiHtAx

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

📅 @crosbie.bsky.social, Head of Product is speaking at the 10th Annual Patient-Centered Approach to Clinical Trials Conference, Montreal—Oct 21 buff.ly/naupw15 Want to learn more about DHDP, federated learning, secure data sharing, our Innovation Fund? book time with Charles here: bit.ly/3TrJHQT

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And check out her advice to future data scientists; “…stay curious and keep learning”. Thank you Amber #AdaLovelaceDay #AdaLovelace #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech #ALD26

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Click through to the article to find out why data standardization and OMOP, and preparing data for federated learning are part of her day-to-day workflow, and why this work is so important for accelerating #precisionmedicine research.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This year, we sat down with Amber Fedynak, Data Scientist for the Digital Health & Discovery Platform to learn more about her role in Platform development and what led her to a career in data.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and women in STEM buff.ly/dO49XFk Ada Lovelace Day, an international day celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), is held each year on the second Tuesday of October.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Ontario-based team members are creating a secure, intelligent system that helps clinicians detect distress sooner and supports better treatment decisions, connecting Canadians to timely, tailored mental health support through smart technology. #datasharing #AI

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Using AI-augmented tools and real-time data this project will securely gather information from electronic medical records and clinical notes. AI tools will identify patterns that indicate worsening mental health to create models so that clinicians detect distress earlier and offer effective support.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#WorldMentalHealthDay Access to mental health care is often limited and many people wait too long to receive help. Early signs of worsening mental health are often missed. This new project supported through the DHDP Digital Health Innovation Fund is exploring how AI can help. buff.ly/0cow8cz

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you Rodney Ouellette! The Digital Health & Discovery Platform would like to thank retiring Executive Committee member, Rodney Ouellette for his guidance as a member of our executive committee.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For all of our #AIweek2026 projects, please visit buff.ly/UO4OCZP and for news of our second DHIF RFA, please visit: buff.ly/wGj7eFh

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gathering vision data from both rural and urban areas helps develop AI-driven tools that can support clinicians in real time, reduce diagnostic delays, and improve access to care across diverse populations.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The project team is partnering with optometry clinics in both rural and urban areas to collect and standardize vision-related data — clinical observations, health records, and imaging — into a common framework that enables secure, privacy-respecting research and model development.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#AIweek2026 Enabling faster, smarter vision care across Canada through real-world AI and secure data sharing A new Digital Health Innovation Fund project is exploring how AI can unlock insights from clinical data for early signs of eye disease like glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy buff.ly/zoQvkPP

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Welcome to Dr. Eric Allain, who joins the DHDP Executive Committee. We look forward to working with him and thank him for sharing his skills and expertise to guide Platform development buff.ly/j2VbrY9

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The project will create a skin health network using data from across Canada, including from Indigenous people. Data will be de-identified for privacy & managed by provincial & Indigenous data sovereignty principles. AI-refined decision tools for clinicians enable equitable triage & faster diagnosis.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Precision medicine relies on analyzing big data for answers, often with AI to pull out patterns that the human eye cannot. But the answers it pulls out are only as good as the data that it trains on. With missing data, results generated can be biased and miss a whole section of the population.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#AIweek2026 Canada faces one of the world’s highest rates of skin cancer, yet access to dermatology care is limited especially in rural, northern, and Indigenous communities. A new DHIF project is exploring how AI can address this, making specialist care more widely accessible. buff.ly/hjduziU

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This patient-centred registry will be built to enable FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperative, Reusable) data handling for privacy-preserving AI and machine learning analytics. Integrating patient voice and secure infrastructure ensures that innovation translates into improvements for patients.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Health data in Canada is often fragmented, making it difficult to research outcomes, treatment effectiveness and patient experience. This DHIF project is exploring how to combine patient-reported data with clinician and health system data in a strong governance framework to preserve patient privacy.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#AIweek2026 Building a secure, patient-centred national registry infrastructure that enables health data to be used safely, responsibly, and collaboratively. EvidaHealth Foundation: National Registry Infrastructure Enabling FAIR, Federated, and Patient-Centered Real-World Evidence buff.ly/IM7UWcZ

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For additional security, the project partners will use federated learning, so that only the computational tools travel; the data stay safely under institutional governance. Insights could improve treatment decisions, accelerating #precisionmedicine research without compromising patient privacy.

Quote: This initiative has the potential to unlock the power of data to drive efficiency, improve patient care and accelerate innovation within Canada.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The project will standardize hospital data to generate a synthetic dataset. Since this retains only clinical information and not personal details, it can be used to train AI tools and help analytical models learn, for valuable insight on treatment, diagnostic work ups, and patient outcomes.

Quote: Open and collaborative data ecosystems are essential to turning health data into better discoveries, better decisions, and better patient outcomes.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#AIweek2026 Using privacy preserving synthetic data to connect Canadian hospitals and unlock faster insights to improve patient care—funded by the Digital Health Innovation Fund (DHIF), this project leverages synthetic data for research that preserves patient privacy. www.dhdp.ca/projects/pro...

Quote: Unlocking Canada's health data safely; using synthetic data to help hospitals across Canada collaborate, accelerate research, and improve patient care

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The team aims to validate the technology in pilot clinical studies and create a shareable dataset of bone cancer biomarkers that ID cancer patterns. The findings will accelerate precision surgery in bone cancer and improve patient outcomes through safer, more accurate cancer removal.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The project team will develop a handheld device, AI-driven spectroscopy platform for real-time bone cancer detection. Using AI and machine learning, the device will learn to detect cancer from among the complex tissue signals encountered during an operation, giving instant feedback to the surgeon.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#AIweek2026 Today, as when Terry Fox faced osteosarcoma, surgeons have limited ways to know if all cancer has been removed. If cells are left behind, the disease can return. A DHIF project is developing AI-powered imaging to help surgeons know what tissue to remove. www.dhdp.ca/projects/pro...

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Opinion: Canada must own the systems that connect its health data By Dr. Jim Woodgett and Josip Maras Published by Healthing: www.healthing.ca/opinion/opin... #datasharing #AI #ML #datasecurity @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meet the team — welcome Enrique Olaizola as Senior Software Engineer. His focus on Platform development, overseeing software implementation for our federated learning infrastructure, will enable secure, privacy-preserving data sharing. Accelerating #precisionmedicine across Canada buff.ly/9prdmiL

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

By the end of the project, the team expects to identify blood-based biomarkers and validate AI models that can help predict which treatment will work best.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cancer treatments do not work the same way for everyone. By combining multiple types of biological data and AI, this project aims to reduce trial and error in cancer care to improve treatment success for patients across Canada.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meet the DHIF teams! Multi-omics data to #AI disease signature discovery is a collaborative project using AI to predict which #cancer treatments will work best for patients with lung, breast, or colorectal cancer by analyzing their genes, proteins & metabolism together. buff.ly/7GWLzxu

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The handheld device will give surgeons real-time feedback during an operation, helping them distinguish cancerous bone from healthy bone while preserving as much normal tissue as possible.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bone cancers such as osteosarcoma are aggressive and if cancer cells are left behind the disease can return, leading to repeat surgeries, amputation or spread. This project will help improve patient outcomes through safer and more accurate cancer removal.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Meet the Teams! Digital Health Innovation Fund An AI-Driven Multimodal Spectroscopy Platform for Real-Time Bone Cancer Detection - aims to help surgeons more accurately remove bone cancer by developing a handheld device they can use during surgery to ‘see’ cancer cells. Read more: buff.ly/YhhVDrz

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're hiring! Are you our next Program Coordinator? or do you know this person? Please share: www.dhdp.ca/about/careers

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ICYMI Our first 14 Digital Health Innovation Fund (DHIF) projects have launched on the DHDP, where they will leverage federated learning and AI tools to accelerate precision medicine research. Learn more and find out how you could be part of our second DHIF cohort in Bulletin #10: buff.ly/yw0MSsd

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The second Request for Applications (RFA) to the Digital Health Innovation Fund launches this fall. Subscribe to our newsletter for early access. buff.ly/yw0MSsd

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The DHIF represents the next phase of TFRI’s commitment to advancing collaborative, data-driven research. Funded through ISED Canada's SRF, the DHDP is a pan-Canadian initiative focused on improving health outcomes for Canadians to advance precision medicine through digital health data sharing.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The 14 successful projects, representing a total project value of $40.9M, will leverage the DHDP’s federated learning platform, enabling researchers to analyze data across institutions without moving it, preserving privacy while unlocking new insights.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The selected projects bring together 55 partners from across Canada — small- and medium-sized enterprises, academic institutions and healthcare organizations — to accelerate health data sharing for AI-driven discovery in precision medicine.

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@terryfoxresearch.bsky.social (IRTF) et Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada (ISDE) sont ravis d’annoncer la première cohorte de projets du Fonds d’innovation en santé numérique (FISN), un programme national de financement dirigé par la Plateforme DHDP de l’IRTF. buff.ly/oqhDBce

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Digital Health & Discovery Platform @dhdp-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@terryfoxresearch.bsky.social (TFRI) and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada are excited to announce the first cohort of projects for the Digital Health Innovation Fund (DHIF), a national funding program led by TFRI’s Digital Health & Discovery Platform (DHDP). buff.ly/d1oNYWp

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