Enabling Better Health through Artificial Intelligence (AI-Better Health)

The AI-Better Health Program is open to applicants at Alberta-based post-secondary institutions, for-profit organizations (SMEs), government entities, and not-for-profit organizations. All applicants are required to include key opinion leaders across healthcare and government for collaborative research projects that address critical issues for enabling better health through artificial intelligence.

Applications must be aligned to one or more eligible theme areas:

1. Data: Addressing challenges (technical and/or human factors) associated with data access and quality, model training and accuracy, and the integration of disparate data sets towards complex areas of precision medicine, preventative health care, and social determinants of health
2. Development: Understanding and addressing critical elements for artificial intelligence to enable better health, including ethical, privacy, legal, policy, and societal requirements. These non-technical (or, human factor) elements are vital to address for the responsible implementation of artificial intelligence.
3. Efficiency: Applying artificial intelligence towards increasing health system efficiency, including non-clinical process improvement, decision making, care provision, workforce scheduling and assistance (e.g., free text abstraction)
4. Point-of-Care: Utilizing artificial intelligence to support a learning health system, including timely and informed decision making, change management, talent management, and adoption.

Full details on eligibility can be found in the Program Guidelines.