Infoway offers Connected Care Innovation grants

TORONTO – Canada Health Infoway has announced the launch of the 2025 Connected Care Innovation Grant. Infoway is investing in clinical leaders across Canada to advance grassroots clinical initiatives that drive innovation in digital health interoperability and strengthen Connected Care for patients and providers. Successful applicants can receive up to $40,000 per project.

The 2025 Connected Care Innovation Grant is an initiative from the Infoway Centre for Clinical Innovation in Digital Health (CIDH), which supports national efforts to accelerate the adoption of healthcare interoperability.

Through the CIDH, Infoway continues to drive initiatives that encourage engagement with clinical leaders and learners, supporting the adoption of Connected Care solutions.

“It’s exciting to see the CIDH bring back the Connected Care Innovation Grant with renewed focus and energy,” said Krista Balenko (pictured), vice president of enablement and operations at Canada Health Infoway.

“Continued investment in clinician-led innovation, especially the kinds of solutions that leverage emerging technologies like AI, is essential to building a more connected, efficient healthcare system. This initiative reflects Infoway’s long-term commitment to supporting the evolving needs of frontline healthcare workers.”

The proposed initiative should:

• Align to at least one of the pillars in Infoway’s Shared Pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap
• Solve a common pain point for clinicians, ideally reducing their administrative burden
• Leverage digital health technologies in a novel manner to improve Connected Care in Canada
• Have the potential for scalability, replicability, and sustainability
• Be capable of being implemented quickly so it can provide immediate benefits to providers and patients, ideally in six to nine months
• Identify a measurable improvement that has a clear target for success
• Enhance the quality of data captured and/or exchanged within the circle of care

The proposed initiative could also:

• Involve an interdisciplinary clinician team
• Involve a patient partner or significant patient voice
• Demonstrate positive impact on rural and remote, Indigenous and/or marginalized communities
• Involve leveraging AI-powered technologies as a catalyst to improve the experience of clinicians and patients, with a particular focus on primary or community care settings.

Eligible clinical leaders interested in applying to the Connected Care Innovation Grant can visit here to learn more. Applications will be accepted until July 18 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Later this Summer, the CIDH will also launch the 2025 Connected Care Clinical Student Scholarship, designed for clinical learners who are eager to deepen their understanding of digital health and interoperability, and explore how these areas contribute to more connected, patient-centered care in alignment with the Interoperability Roadmap.

About Canada Health Infoway
At Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) we believe a more connected and collaborative system is a healthier system, and one that leads to better health outcomes for all Canadians. By leveraging digital technologies and innovations, we’re working with governments, healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patients to advance connected care across the country. This improves care coordination, empowers patients to have a more active role in managing their health, and equips care providers with information and insights to support better care both at the point of care and throughout their patients’ health journey. Most their respective fields, including health care, administration, information technology and privacy.

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