“The beauty of MyJourney is that we are able to take user feedback and make things better. Both patients and their nurses and physicians contribute to our constant quality improvement and we are continuously getting better thanks to that input.”
A recent grant from the Ontario Centre for Innovation will take the app even further, helping Dr. Osman and her team expand the app to the NYGH chemo clinic, enhance educational content and integrate with Sunnybrook where many NYGH patients go for radiation therapy.
“We’ve designed MyJourney to be able to seamlessly integrate with various hospitals’ EMR systems, very much a plug-and-play approach. This way, we can map out a patient’s entire journey even if they are visiting multiple hospitals for care.
The expansion will take place over the next six months at which time the Ministry of Health will also assess further expansion into potentially other hospitals and health centres, helping even more patients.
Role of donors
“Philanthropy is so important in health care. We can get caught up in our day to day work and we’re all trying to do our best for our patients, but donor funds take care to another level,” explains Dr. Osman.
“MyJourney would never have been possible without donors who provided the seed funding we needed to get this project off the ground. My special thanks to Brad Badeau for his support, leadership and guidance as an experienced technology leader. The role of the donor is so essential, especially in our Canadian universal healthcare system where innovation cannot always be supported by the government. I want every donor to know that this makes a big difference.”
