Workhorse Health

AI is relevant to our client families now. And to the health systems in Canada, and worldwide, who support them. Workhorse Health is incorporating Vector Institute Best Practices, informed by OECD (May 2023) and AIDA (Sept. 2022) so we can help client families reach their goals faster, with greater precision, and at lower cost. Vector Institute The Ontario Caregiver Organization Healthcare Excellence Canada Health | Santé Spark Centre Business Advisory Centre Durham (BACD) Toronto Region Board of Trade Lori Holloway Gillian Young Grace Batac Markham Stouffville Hospital Lakeridge Health Unity Health Toronto Nazca Health

Many thanks Spark Centre with Angel Investors Durham for a great event in support of Ignite Durham Learning Foundation. This year you’ve helped us: 🚀Release our MVP 👑Gather feedback from our early adopters ✨Provide intros to even more angels Merry Christmas HNY and cheers to a fruitful ‘25 working together to solve big problems in healthcare💎🏥

Thank you Stephania Stefanakou NEXT Canada for the warm welcome to Toronto office for NEXT AI Women in AI event✨

AGE-WELL NCE Inc. hosted their 5-star annual conference last week that I highly recommend to the #senior #innovator #caregiver ready to contribute to the conversation about #dementia and solutions using #AgeTech🌟 I look forward to staying engaged with this enthusiastic group of problem solvers and visionaries Ron Beleno Daniel Clarke Shain Khoja Jana Rieger, PhD Eugene Ng Emile Maamary Elderado Thriving.ai True Angle Baycrest Caregivers Alberta The Ontario Caregiver Organization

Thrilled to attend quality panels today by Angel Investors Ontario. Special thank you to Vector Institute for access to such a healthy ecosystem committed to economic transformation in Canada using AI🇨🇦 #tech #canada #startup

Many thanks to The Firehood for a warm welcome to Elevate Women+ this Fall! Incredible mentorship and generosity in this group of Canadian tech leaders 🇨🇦 Collaborations forthcoming! The Firehood Elevate NEXT AI #Elevate #Canada

Update: Postmedia Network Inc. Healthing feature! Grateful for this platform to share the origin story of Workhorse Health✨ Solutions to the healthcare situation in Canada start with supporting the health providers who elevate families that struggle with this issue🇨🇦 Will you share this post with a health provider in your network so we can share this hopeful, forward-looking message?🚀 Many thanks to Workhorse Health Gillian Young Grace Batac Zain M. and the mentors and guides that contributed to this story NEXT AI Spark Centre Vector Institute The Firehood Lakeridge Health Michael Garron Hospital Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation #healthcare #Canada https://lnkd.in/eX2Zes8n

Thank you Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), Sinai Health for an informative day of virtual learning at the 14th Annual Geriatrics Institute Education Day. Our Workhorse Health team found this material of value from a clinical and system perspective. We want to have a better understanding how we can help families today and moving forward and with your contributions we are able to do so. Look forward to future events! Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), Sinai Health University Health Network The Ontario Caregiver Organization Ontario Health | Santé Ontario Healthcare Excellence Canada Gillian Young Grace Batac

UPDATE: Caregivers still need help in their search for a Family Physician to provide timely medical care in the GTA to their loved one. Before I begin, thank you for supporting your loved one. The caregiving you provide means a stronger family, communities, and a healthier society. Thank you. Since I last wrote about the family physician scarcity 6 months ago, the debacle in Ontario has not improved. Family physician advocates including Dr Allan Grill have become more vocal about the needs of Ontarians and the responsibility of the province to better serve our aging loved ones. His urging, however, appears to be directed ultimately towards provincial decision-makers. At the family [system] level, where caregivers serve, we have continued to explore even more options for access because the healthcare needs of our clients and client families have only grown.  These are my updated recommendations for the GTA: 1. Physician specialists: If you, or your loved one, has an appointment with any physician specialist, ask at the time of the visit for a recommendation to a primary care provider. A question for you to ask the physician is “if a family member or friend approached you with the same question we are asking you today, what would you suggest?” 2. Nurse Practitioners have established clinics independent of physicians, and provide the same primary care services most patients are familiar with. For a convenient in-person location near your loved one’s home, The Village Health Clinic in Davisville and Yorkville-based Care& clinics are accepting patients. 3. Naturopaths have long been a resource for patients seeking an “alternative,” or “second opinion;” this is no longer the case. NDs can serve as primary care providers who complete physical exams, and order full lab panels (bloodwork) for your loved one. Burlington-based Clarity and Longev on King St. E. in Toronto provide consultation appointments via their virtual scheduling platforms. 4. Chiropractors can serve as a primary care provider, and have maintained this privilege since 2019. Look for a provider with a wider team of professionals on-site so you can combine appointments during a single visit with your loved one. For example, a chiropractor providing acupuncture or fascial stretch therapy might also share an office with a physiotherapist and massage therapist. As an example, Beyond Chiropractic has offices located conveniently in Oakville and Downtown Toronto. Want more like this? Let me co-create a Comprehensive Caregiving Plan with you to help achieve your goals. Reach me directly here: https://lnkd.in/erNnE-qA Ontario Health | Santé Ontario Lakeridge Health Oak Valley Health Ontario Chiropractic Association Longev Clinic Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors The Ontario Caregiver Organization Healthcare Excellence Canada Nursing Lane

Navigating the Emergency Department: 18 things you need to know about the ED in the GTA During the last 12 years serving client families in Toronto-area Emergency Departments, Critical Care settings and outpatient clinics, I’ve learned this: 1. Emergency Department medical care is available to your loved one at no cost regardless of OHIP status, including visitors to Canada. 2. Emergency Department staff must provide medical care to your loved one, unalike family physicians, walk-in-clinics, and specialists who can choose the patients they serve (for example, in the case of oncology, psychiatry, and cardiology). 3. Emergency Department care begins at Patient Registration; this is where you help your loved one provide their health card and verify address and birthdate. 4. Emergency Department staff create a health record that describes the medical care of your loved one in detail. This record is stored electronically at the hospital and can be easily accessed at the time of a future visit. 5. Emergency Department medical records are accessible to any hospital staff using a unique login and password. 6. Emergency Department staff can add an additional layer of security to your loved one’s medical record. If your loved one would like this privacy feature, ask for the chart to be “locked.” This means that all staff in the hospital at the time of the ED visit, and in the future visits, have to click through an additional verification screen which is audited more closely than an unlocked chart. More about ED visits for families here: https://lnkd.in/exbAaG55