Centre for Digital Therapeutics

OUR WORK

Co-designing
meaningful solutions.

Guided by purposeful opportunities and real-world needs, our digital therapeutics aim to inspire valuable and timely change.

Selected projects

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Caretown

FAMILY & FRIEND CAREGIVERS

Care is a
shared story.

Care reaches beyond the person with a diagnosis. Caretown explores how digital tools can support the family and friends who help make everyday care possible.

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Medly

Heart failure

Bringing heart failure care into everyday life, with self-management support and a connection to the clinical team.

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iCanCope

Youth & chronic pain

Supporting young people with chronic pain as they find ways to cope, connect, and take part in everyday life.

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Reimagining care,
with the people
who live it.

A difficult day. An unanswered question. A gap between appointments. Everyday experiences become the starting points for new ways to care.

Get to know the Centre
  1. 01

    Find the moments
    that matter.

    Start with patients and families: what gets in the way of living well, what care misses, and what they wish were possible. Let what we hear shape the questions we study.

  2. 02

    Create with the people
    who will use it.

    Bring lived experience, clinical insight, and emerging technology into the same room. Co-design and test new possibilities, from the first question to a working prototype.

  3. 03

    Check whether
    life got better.

    Study what changes for people: confidence at home, timely support, and the burden of managing illness. Use the evidence to refine the technology and the care around it.

More stories
still being written.

Explore our work in diabetes, youth chronic pain, respiratory health, and life after cancer.

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bant

Diabetes

Making diabetes self-management more personal and accessible, alongside the things that make a day your own.

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KiT

Type 1 diabetes

Exploring how conversational support can help young people navigate the transition from paediatric to adult care.

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NED

Cancer survivorship

Exploring virtual follow-up that connects cancer survivorship care with life beyond the clinic.

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Breathe

Respiratory health

Connecting symptoms, self-management plans, and digital support for people living with asthma and COPD.

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Watchman

Testicular cancer follow-up

Exploring virtual follow-up for testicular cancer survivors, with continuity between patients and their care team.

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Centre for Digital Therapeutics — a proud partner of UHN

Creative. Collaborative. Centred on people.

Toronto General Hospital · University Health Network