On the TechTO stage ×1
First seen on the TechTO stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Tim ↗
In their words
One of the things we take pride in at West Park as a medium-sized organization is that we have a lot of flexibility, and a lot of buy-in and engagement from our staff — right from frontline staff up to our senior staff.
The technology is not the end in itself. Anytime you look at a technology you're going to be deploying in a clinical environment, you have to look at it in the context of the operational environment and of clinical care planning.
Quick answers
Who is Tim Pauley?
Director of research and academics at West Park Healthcare Centre in Toronto. He was manager of research and evaluation when he presented at HealthTO in October 2018 alongside Jay Couse of Spectrum AI, whose fall-detection system West Park was testing.
What was his argument to health tech founders?
That the hospital, not the device, is the hard part. West Park's value to a startup was access — frontline staff, therapists, pharmacists, patients and executives all in the room while a product was being tested.
What was Spectrum AI testing at West Park?
Computer vision that recognises falls in patient rooms. Couse said the system ran around 95% accuracy, and that the real design problem was false positives: nursing staff ignore a system that alarms too often.