An intelligent network for point-of-care ultrasound that save lives
Providence Health Care & Digital 

Talent Profile

Expert Technical Project Manager with 20+ years of experience specializing in innovation commercialization; worked with Fortune 10 to 500 companies and start-ups

Senior Privacy Advisor specializing in healthcare information access and privacy, with 15 years of experience

Engagement Type

Full-Service

Savings

40% savings 

Candidate Type

Women in Technology

Gap

Sector

Healthcare

Hiring challenge

Dr. Oron had an idea. How could we connect existing ultrasound and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to solve a big problem: diagnosing conditions in almost every part of the body, in real time, from anywhere? TGS was engaged with only 12 months left to make his idea a reality.

The project involved six consortium members across industry, public and academic sectors, so the first challenge was to figure out how to work together in a complex setting, with existing processes on a tight deadline. There was no path to follow, and many barriers in the way – including COVID, which had driven everything online and meant that most of the project team had never met in person. 

Solution

The TGS project manager was ambidextrous in technology and business, with experience designing repeatable processes from scratch in complex multistakeholder environments across industry, academia, and public sectors. The project required sophistication in partner management, communication, change management, and expert-level expertise in both waterfall and agile methodologies as it involved the public and private sectors. 

The project team had to solve and implement a process for acquiring and distributing physical devices to remote areas of BC across several consortium members, while understanding and respecting their existing purchasing practices.

TGS also led the design and implementation of a cloud-based network, including gaining approvals from government, healthcare authorities, academic institutions and industry partners on how best to handle highly sensitive and private patient information.
We supported process design for how remote diagnosis is conducted, from data sharing to recruitment and staffing overworked specialists, to sharing diagnoses with local medical staff at remote locations – all in real time.

We also helped to source the right partners to mark thousands of images used to train the AI model in a tight collaboration with AI specialists located at the University lab.  

“Jama and the TGS team are the most competent project managers I have ever worked with. They helped manage a consortium of academic, non profit, and corporate participants with a multimillion dollar budget and complex milestone completion trajectory over several years. TGS anticipated our needs for the future both near and far, while accounting for all the output required in real time. Super impressed with their efficiency in managing the multi-dimensional aspect of the project, while doing it all with a smile. We actually looked forward to our meetings!"

Dr. Oron F., Clinical Lead: Intelligent Network for Point-of-Care Ultrasound, CDTS Project

Results

The project resulted in life-saving care for patients in rural and remote settings, providing access to diagnostic imaging and enabling clinicians to interpret scans and share data that were previously unavailable. The team overcame many barriers to develop a streamlined and durable solution. IN POCUS is facilitating data flow, creating novel AI solutions, and ultimately equalizing access to healthcare while improving health delivery workflows across British Columbia. 

Read more:

• A PHC Innovation: Point of care ultrasound now saving lives daily in rural BC (link to: https://phcventures.ca/a-phc-innovation-point-of-care-ultrasound-now-saving-lives-daily-in-rural-bc/)

• Intelligent network for point of care ultrasound (link to: https://www.digitalsupercluster.ca/projects/intelligent-network-for-point-of-care-ultrasound/)