An innovative, exciting initiative at McMaster University has came to life, bringing Medical Imaging together with a range of disciplines such as Medicine, Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, e-Health, Nuclear Medicine, Statistics, and Psychology.
The Medical Imaging Informatics Research Centre at McMaster University (MIIRC@M) is the result of efforts of the radiologists at Hamilton Health Sciences, and the researchers and scientists at McMaster University and the University of Waterloo, along with other prestigious Canadian and International universities.
Vision
To foster seamless integration of medical images in the daily world of healthcare professionals with appropriate delivery of relevant content and decision support and educate the new world of imaging/EHR professionals.
Mission
To establish McMaster, Ontario and Canada as leaders in image enabling the EHR and driving utility from regional and national imaging infrastructure.
Execution
Leverage engineering, clinical and business expertise
- MIIRCAM, a joint initiative of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering, identifies and brings together the skills required to solve a specific problem.
Access to clinical environment
- As part of the Academic Medical Imaging Department at Mc Master with the support of 59 staff radiologists, 32 residents and 12 fellows distributed between 4 hospitals;
- State-of-the-art medical imaging equipment with 5 MRI, 8 CT and 1 PET-CT.
- Approximately 600,000 studies per year stored on 2 GE Centricity PACS.
Support of University/Hospital resources
- Research Ethics Board
- Research office: management of grant applications
- MILO: Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.
- Connectivity