Taking SickKids Mobile

Taking SickKids Mobile is an initiative of the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) that explores the
use of mobile technologies for enhancing patient care. It includes six sub-projects, three of which
relate to improving current patient care processes and three focus on making existing services more
effective and easier to use. The reach of these sub-projects ranges from local to global-from
supporting children and their parents in self-monitoring post-operative pain and accessing ‘in-the
moment’ pain management strategies using a mobile device to enabling anyone around the globe to
own and manage their health information on their mobile phone. The project creates a synergy
between rigorous academic knowledge and practices brought by student interns from reputed
universities and industry know-how of current advancements in the mobile technology field brought by
industry partners. Outcomes from this project will also guide the hospital in extending the use of
mobile technologies to other areas

Faculty Supervisor:

Alireza Sadeghian;Sambhavi Chandrashekar

Student:

Partner:

Sapient Nitro;Hospital for Sick Children;BlackBerry (Waterloo, ON);Normative;iMason

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

New and Digital Media

University:

OCAD University; Toronto Metropolitan University

Program: