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With OpenEMR, Opal, the International Patient Summary and now the Commons Project’s Smart Health Card reader, we have a fully open-source end-to-end solution to enable the patient-mediated exchange of data between clinicians.

Congratulations to Douaa ElAbiad for being awarded a Kuok fellowship from the Rossy Cancer Network. The award was presented yesterday at the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology’s Distinguished Lecture & Merit Awards Ceremony at McGil University.

La recherche en santé progresse grâce au partage des données. Cependant, le partage d’images radiologiques susceptibles d’identifier des individus, comme les scans de la tête et du cou, représente un défi.

The MPU is super proud to share that several of our members were honoured last week during the annual Distinguished Lecture & Merit Awards Ceremony of the McGill Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology (GBDO).

I wasn’t able to attend the recent Canadian Cancer Research Conference in Calgary but our lab was well represented by PhD student Odette Rios-Ibacache. Odette presented her research project “From Fragmented to Connected: Building an interoperable radiomics-dosiomics knowledge based via mCODE for radiotherapy”.

👏 ⚜️ Last Thursday (November 13, 2025), the Opal team was well represented at the Colloque Informatique Santé in Quebec. Thanks to Le Point en Santé | Éducation for providing us with a stand in the Innovation Zone.

Interacting with Andrea Laizner was one of the highlights of the time I spent working on the Opal project at the MUHC. Andréa recognized early on the tremendous value Opal would bring to patients and she volunteered to help.

Last night, I had the honor of presenting to a distinguished group of guests at the Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. This event was organized by the Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University.

Just back from the openEHR International conference in Barcelona with student Odette Rios-Ibacache—feeling energized and more convinced than ever about the power of open innovation in healthcare. This morning, I attended an inspiring talk by Grahame Grieve, the creator of the FHIR standard.