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Emily Seto on the TechTO stage

Emily Seto

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

HealthTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2019

Emily Seto is an associate professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and a research scientist at UHN. A professional engineer with 20+ years in bioengineering and health informatics, she helped develop Medly, the heart-failure telemonitoring platform. She spoke at HealthTO in 2018.

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Emily Seto of IHPME, University of Toronto presents Bridging the Valley of Death

HealthTO · January 2019
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In their words

In most of the projects that fail it's not the intervention the innovation right it's how you're implementing it.

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Quick answers

What does Emily Seto research?

Digital health and health informatics - telemonitoring, health systems AI, and the evaluation of digital therapeutics. She co-leads IHPME's Health Systems AI and Health Informatics Research emphases.

What is Medly?

A smartphone platform for chronic disease telemonitoring that Seto helped develop with Dr. Heather Ross and Dr. Joseph Cafazzo. It launched at UHN in 2016 for heart-failure patients.

What else does Emily Seto lead?

She is program director for Health Systems Research at IHPME and co-director of the Joint Translational Centre for Digital Health, run with the University of Manchester.

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