e-Health Innovations: research projects

In addition to the research teams that are funded through the e-Health Innovations initiative, CIHR funds e-health themed research through a variety of cross-cutting funding mechanisms.

The table below highlights some of CIHR’s e-health themed research as relevant to a variety of Institutes.

Institute

Project title

Principal investigator(s)

Objective

Aging

AAL-WELL: Ambient Assistive Living Technologies for Wellness, Engagement, and Long Life

Alex Mihalidis
Andrew Sixsmith

Patient empowerment

Aboriginal People’s Health

e-Health Mentoring: Building pathways to health careers for Aboriginal youth

Sandra Jarvis-Selinger

Advanced decision support for health care providers

Cancer Research

My Team of Care-Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer (myTOC-AYAC): Development and Usability Testing of an Online Communication Tool for Collaborative Care in AYAC

Amna Husain
Jennifer Stinson

Integrated - patient empowerment/advanced decision support for health care providers

Circulatory and Respiratory Health

Feasibility and efficacy of a computer-tailoring physical activity intervention to promote self-management of CVD risk factors: a pilot randomized control trial

Francois Boudreau

Patient empowerment

Human Development, Child and Youth Health

Family Centred E-Health in Pediatric Weight Management: A Pilot Study

Anthony Levinson
Katherine Morrison

Integrated - patient empowerment/advanced decision support for health care providers

Infection and Immunity

Improving health system efficiency in latent tuberculosis treatment through text messaging

James Johnston
Richard Lester
Gina Ogilvie

Integrated - patient empowerment/advanced decision support for health care providers

Infection and Immunity

On-line and on-the-ground: bridging the gap between vulnerable populations and public health

Carole Beaudoin
John Wylie

Population health monitoring

Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis

ANSWER-2: A biologic decision aid for patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Linda Li

Patient empowerment

Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis

Virtual Peer-to-Peer (VP2P) Support Mentoring for Adolescents with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Feasibility Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Mary Jane Bell
Jennifer Stinson

Patient empowerment

Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction

Mental Health E-Screening in Pregnant and Postpartum Women

Dawn Kingston

Advanced decision support for health care providers

Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes

D-WISE - A Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: An E-health Solution Operationalizing Behaviour Change Models and Clinical Guidelines for Patient-centered Diabetes Self-management

Samina Abidi
Lisa MacDonald
Micheal Vallis

Patient empowerment

Population and Public Health

Evaluating syndromic surveillance in public health practice

David Buckeridge

Population health monitoring