Digital Health Week
It’s Digital Health Week! Running from November 17–23, Digital Health Week is an annual event, led by Canada Health Infoway that explores current challenges, solutions, and innovations in digital health.
At the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), we’re celebrating by showcasing key resources and tools designed to support digital health research and learning. This includes our collaborative Digital Health Research Series with the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), along with a range of WHRI-developed materials to support digital health research.
Join us in marking Digital Health Week by exploring these resources and sharing content on social media using #ThinkDigitalHealth. Together, we can champion digital innovation to transform care for women, children, and gender diverse people across Canada.
CW Research Lunch & Learn: This Week’s Session
Thank you for joining us for our November CW Research Lunch & Learn on “Navigating the AI Revolution in Healthcare Research” presented by Jonath Sujan.
If you missed the session or would like revisit the talk, the full recording is now available on YouTube.
In this session, Jonath explores how emerging AI tools are transforming the landscape of healthcare research—from data analysis and clinical decision-making to ethical considerations and implementation strategies.
Digital Health Week Bundle
The Women’s Health Research Institute and the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute are partnering to offer a virtual learning series for investigators and trainees working on digital health projects aimed at improving the health of children, women, and gender diverse people.This series is designed for researchers, care providers, and stakeholders interested in integrating digital technologies into health interventions or health systems. It provides practical guidance to support learners at every stage, from project initiation to implementation.
Elicit is an artificial intelligence product developed by Ought, an AI research lab based in San Francisco, California. Elicit is a public-benefit corporation/AI tool, marketed as an “AI research assistant”. The tool is designed to automate the process of knowledge synthesis and assist in conducting literature reviews.
Learn how Elicit works, what it’s good for, and the risks associated with using it.
In this episode of the @WomensResearch Podcast, Candice Taguibao chats with Dr. Caroline Figueroa, Dr. Gina Ogilvie, and Dr. Roopan Gill about digital health, equity, and innovation.
They discuss topics such as the digital divide and biases in artificial intelligence, contextualizing from anecdotes from their own work in Canada and globally.
Gen AI does not “risk” plagiarism and inaccuracy, it is known to produce plagiarized and inaccurate results.
Find general information and guiding questions provided by the WHRI to support investigators, trainees, and research teams in conversations about appropriate and transparent AI use.
The Conducting Digital Health Research overview provides a practical introduction to help you get started with conducting digital health research
It provides an an overview about digital health research methods, user-centred design, and resources for vendor selection, intellectual property management, and privacy and security.
The WHRI is here to support your digital health research project.
If you are a WHRI researcher who is currently working on—or considering starting—a project focused on improving health through a digital tool, we can help.
The WHRI provides guidance on digital health research, evaluation, and methodology, as well as access to a wide range of additional resources to support your project’s success.
Scite
Citation analysis, identifies supporting, contradicting or neutral evidence.
Open Knowledge Maps
Topic visualization, clustering, supports cross-disciplinary exploration.
Research Rabbit
Auto-generates citation networks, analyzes topic relations, and finds related literature.
Litmaps
Visualizes citation networks, tracks topic evolution and gaps and large-scale topic mapping.
- Generative Artificial Intelligence: Evaluating GenAI Outputs
- A Framework for AI Literacy
- Artificial Intelligence at PHSA
- Digital Health Canada: AI in Action
- 2025 Watch List: Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
- Tracking the Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Implementation Science [study protocol]
- Generative AI in healthcare: an implementation science informed translational path on application, integration and governance
Contact Us
If you have comments or questions, please contact us at whri.communications@cw.bc.ca. Thank you for joining us in celebrating Digital Health Week and for your commitment to shaping the future of digital health.