Human factor engineering

Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes can reduce the time physicians spend documenting patient visits by 69.1% during simulated primary care appointments, according to new research led...

A developing project by Myrtede Alfred aims to build a modelling approach to identify equity issues and reduce adverse outcomes for racialized patients in Canadian hospitals.

LaShawn Murray, a PhD student in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering, is exploring how digital tools can improve...

Physician burnout has been a significant topic of discussion in healthcare. While technology is a tool that can simplify tasks,...

In Canada and the United States, the survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is 10 per cent. However, there is...

The path to engineering studies wasn’t always straightforward for Kejah Bascon (MIE PhD student).    Born and raised in Ottawa, she spent much...

Developing research led by Myrtede Alfred of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering offers new insight to address...

Professor Enid Montague (MIE) aims to engineer a better health-care experience and help ease the current stress on the system using an...

The United States is the world’s most expensive country to give birth. Yet, its maternal mortality rate was the highest...