Mohawk partners on digital health projects

One of Canada’s leading applied research centres in health IT is based at Mohawk College.   

Globally recognized for its expertise in Digital Health, Mohawk’s mHealth & eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC) partners with government institutions, public health teams, clinician groups, researchers, NGOs, and commercial software vendors to accelerate the development of interoperable and secure healthcare IT solutions. MEDIC is also a Technology Access Centre, a federally funded applied research centre that connects industry with college expertise.  

MEDIC helps its partners create new digital health software products, working with organizations at every stage of product development- from developing a working proof of concept to helping partners redesign their products to ensure that they meet international digital health standards.    

Recently, the team at MEDIC has worked with Hand-In-Scan, a global organization developing an industry-leading training system that will improve hand hygiene behaviours to help limit the spread of infectious disease, and m-Health Solutions, a Hamilton-based health tech company which specializes in remote patient monitoring and cardiac diagnostics. After spending two years working at MEDIC on four different applied research projects, Mohawk graduate Jennifer says, “Fresh out of my first year and armed with little more than enthusiasm, the IDEAWORKS MEDIC team believed in me before I believed in myself. I spent two years developing software with sharp, adaptable, driven people who respect the obligations of students but still trust them to rise to any given challenge. I will always be grateful to MEDIC for allowing me to grow into my own skills and share equally in the success of the projects on which I worked.”  

This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the InTouch magazine.