• INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD — Fully digitizing and connecting patient health records across the Hospital and the CIUSSS-West Central provides real-time access and benefit to patients, healthcare providers and caregivers.

• SPINAL ENDOSCOPY – The JGH is first in Quebec to offer a new type of minimally invasive spinal surgery. It’s a technique that requires a small incision in the side of the patient, before a tube, similar to a straw, is inserted. The surgery takes less than an hour, and patients can go home not long after.

• TELEHEALTH – Enable virtual consultations and remote monitoring through the use of remote sensors and/or devices.

• RADIATION ONCOLOGY – Before the pandemic, doctors used to meet in person with their patients to answer questions and record information that helped to determine whether and how often radiation treatments would take place. Preparing the patient for treatment and determining the optimum dose of radiation is a painstaking process. Now, much of this can be accomplished remotely thanks to telehealth.

• PERSONALIZED MEDICINE – Leverage screening programs, molecular diagnosis, targeted treatment of common diseases and appropriate recommendations using genetic and genomic analysis.

• DA VINCI robot – The donor-funded Da Vinci robot enables surgeons to perform delicate and complex operations through a few small incisions with robotic-assisted arms. Thanks to donors like you, the JGH has not one but two of these cutting-edge robots—among only a few centres in all of Canada.

• MICROSOFT HOLOLENS – In an effort to protect health care workers against the risk of exposure to COVID-19 from infected patients, the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) is one of the first health care institutions in North America to experiment in real time with mixed reality headsets to minimize direct contact between staff and patients. By using Microsoft HoloLens, an untethered mixed-reality device with apps and solutions that enhance collaboration, practitioners are better equipped to provide the best-personalized care.

• GE Discovery MI 5-Ring PET/CT – The new machine boasts cutting-edge digital detector technology and an extra-large field-of-view. What this means for our patients is more scans throughout, scans which are twice as fast, lower doses of harmful radiation and better image quality to resolve small lesions more precisely.

• MACHINE LEARNING – Under the umbrella of OROT – The Connected Health Innovation Hub for the CIUSSS West Central Montreal (CIUSSS-CCOMTL) and the Jewish General Hospital, is partnering with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to fund an initiative to develop and assess an explainable machine learning (ML) prototype tool that improves transparency and the applicability of the decisions that it helps make.