2026-08-12 from utoronto.ca

As medical residents at the University of Toronto, Amol Verma and Fahad Razak were struck by how many hospital decisions about quality-improvement were made based on opinion or whoever was the most persuasive voice in a room.

So, the pair set to work with their colleagues across the university to build a data network housed at Unity Health Toronto that linked together dozens of hospitals in Ontario, saving the province tens of millions in health-care costs, freeing up hospital beds and preventing unnecessary deaths – all while safeguarding patients’ privacy.

What began as an effort to improve decision-making in Ontario hospitals has since evolved into a national health data network called Vital that recently secured $100 million in federal support through Canada’s national AI strategy. 

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