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Potential Conflicts of Interest

Our research group does research on information technology adoption and use in healthcare. As part of this work we interact, collaborate, receive research funding from, and do consulting work for companies in the IT sector. Below is a general declaration of commercial funding sources for our lab as a whole and for specific individuals.

The Electronic Health Information Laboratory has received research funding in the form of grants and in-kind support over the last 5 years from the following commercial entities: Microsoft Corporation, Bell Canada, Telus, and TrialStat Corporation. A full list of funding sources (commercial, government, and granting agencies) is provided here.

The principal investigator, Dr. Khaled El Emam, has received funding in the form of consulting contracts or payment for services over the last 5 years from the following commercial entitites: QNX Software Systems, TrialStat Corporation, and the Cutter Consortium.


30 September 2008
A recent study published by our lab examines the failure rate of IT projects based on two international surveys in 2005 and 2007. Overall, approximately one third of IT projects are cancelled or deliver but are consider failures. This was consistent across the two years.




14 September 2008
Our lab recently published an article describing a new technique for protecting against journalist re-identification risk. The publication includes an empirical comparison with other techniques. The results provide a solution for a large general class of risks.




10 September 2008
Our lab recently published an article providing an overview of commonly used heuristics for de-identifying health data, and argues that these have critical limitations. A more explicit risk based approach is needed.



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