Main Activities
- Create efficient tools and processes for data quality assurance, standardization, and use
- Create a user-friendly, secure computational environment
- Advance and implement robust methods of data governance to ensure ethical use of data and protect patient privacy
- Cultivate “open science” and advance the responsible sharing of data and research outputs through frameworks like the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)
- Provide resources, tools, and customized support to users
- Convene interdisciplinary communities of researchers and data users, including patients and caregivers, clinicians, and health system decision-makers
- Conduct research that advances the understanding of health, illness, and delivery of hospital care
- Conduct research that enhances the responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence and other data-driven solutions in medicine
- Conduct research that informs health system planning and policy-making
- Conduct and support research that advances the science of quality measurement and quality improvement
- Provide data analytics and quality measurement for the Ontario General Medicine Quality Improvement Network to advance the care for general medicine patients in Ontario, who account for approximately 40% of emergency admissions to hospitals
Timeline
2014
GEMINI is established to study the quality of care in general medicine wards
2016
First batch of data is collected from 7 hospitals
2017
The initial cohort study is published which showed a dramatic increase in general medicine inpatient volume
2018
The Ontario General Medicine Quality Improvement Network (GeMQIN) is established
2018-19
First physician quality reports are distributed through GeMQIN
2020
GEMINI partners with the Vector Institute to build a health data platform for Artificial Intelligence research
2020
The GEMINI COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory receives funding from CIHR to expand GEMINI to 30 hospitals and study COVID-19
2021
GEMINI publishes the first study describing hospitalization for COVID-19 in Canada
2022
First hospital quality reports are distributed through GeMQIN
2023
GEMINI data are linked at ICES, enabling research about trajectories of health before and after hospitalization