February 22, 2023 The Health Innovation Roundup, sponsored by Health Cities, is written and published weekly by Taproot Edmonton to bring you the latest news and events in research, technology, companies and people changing health for the better in Edmonton.Sign up to get the full edition delivered directly to your inbox. Use the code HEALTHCITY & you’ll get 10% off the first year.Here are some highlights from this week’s Health Innovation Roundup: HeadlinesResearchers at the University of Alberta have developed a machine-learning model to assess whether prescribing an opioid is likely to have an adverse outcome. Using AI allows doctors to take into account many more factors than they typically can. “This is a tool to help clinicians to manage their patients who are very complex and to help patients get better outcomes from their therapies,” Dean Eurich, an epidemiologist at the School of Public Health, told Folio.Health Cities has built synthetic data to help prevent opioid addiction without breaching privacy. “Alberta has about 400,000 data sets spanning seven years that include pharmacy data, ER visits, diagnostic data and administrative data,” said CEO Reg Joseph. “With this we can start looking at prescribing and usage habits and all kinds of metrics to find patterns that can help inform practices to prevent addiction.”True Angle Medical will be featured in the Meet the Makers webinar series by the National Foundation of Swallowing Disorders on March 7. The company will be presenting a demonstration of its Mobili-T device.Alberta Innovates is accepting applications from health-tech innovators for the “Validate” stream of its Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) program, which helps innovators progress toward market entry.Mark Korthuis, CEO of the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, spoke to Douglas Nelson on the Discovery Pod about integrating technology with healthcare to help patients regain independence effectively and efficiently.The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has released a video of the keynote delivered by Medo AI co-founders Dornoosh Zonoobi and Jacob Jaremko about making the leap from research to startup.Virtual care is here to stay after a rapid and necessary expansion during the pandemic, writes Jonathan Choy, senior medical director of virtual care for Alberta Health Services. “While virtual care will not replace in-person care, we must take advantage of this incredible tool to help bridge gaps, promote health equity and access, and provide high-quality, patient-centred care,” he said in a piece published by Postmedia.EventsFeb. 23: The University Hospital Foundation’s Heart Pledge Day on up! 99.3Feb. 23, 12pm: Digitizing and Automating Mental Health Treatment, presented by Lenica Research GroupFeb. 23, 7pm: Accessing Continuing Care in Alberta, presented by the Early Onset Dementia Alberta FoundationUntil Feb. 28: The Maz Move-A-Thon for the University Hospital FoundationFeb. 28, 12pm: Dean’s Lecture Series: Precision Health in partnership with the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, presented onlineMarch 7, 11:30am: BioAlberta Annual Policy Forum at the Westin EdmontonMarch 8, 12pm: Enabling older adults through technology: an Alberta case study from Digital Health CanadaMarch 9, 4pm: Health Innovators’ Meetup: Transitioning from Academia to Industry at Enterprise SquareMarch 10-12: 2023 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Conference at the Matrix HotelMarch 14, 9am: DiscoveryLab at Enterprise SquareMarch 14, 4pm: Innovation Community Entrepreneurship (ICE) Series 3: Pi Day panel session, co-hosted by Technology Alberta and the Edmonton Research Park Business ConsortiumMarch 23: Life Sciences Investment Summit Finale in CalgaryBecome a “Roundup Cultivator” and sponsor Taproot Edmonton to help them chronicle health innovation in Edmonton. Learn more