Thread by @katecallen, Ontario is creating a new health data platform to help researchers, incl. [...]

Ontario is creating a new health data platform to help researchers, incl. modellers & province's world-leading AI scientists respond to pandemic

This sounds like what the researchers in the story I wrote below were calling for, although... https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/03/24/ai-scientists-are-mobilizing-to-combat-coronavirus-heres-how-the-provinces-are-holding-them-back.html

AI scientists are mobilizing to combat coronavirus. Here’s how the provinces are holding them back

Scientists eager to help in the battle against COVID-19 say stingy provincial data-sharing is not making it easy.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/03/24/ai-scientists-are-mobilizing-to-combat-coronavirus-heres-how-the-provinces-are-holding-them-back.html

I can think of a couple researchers I could phone rn who would jump for joy and a couple researchers I could phone rn who would have misgivings. Province says it's working with the privacy commissioner.

Definitely want a lot more info on this!

The data platform is called....wait for it.....PANTHR (Pandemic Threat Response) https://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2020/04/province-developing-new-health-data-platform-to-help-defeat-covid-19.html?utm_source=ondemand&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p

Province Developing New Health Data Platform to Help Defeat COVID-19

TORONTO —The Ontario government is taking steps to better detect, plan and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. In consultation with the Ontario Privacy Commissioner, the province is developi...

https://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2020/04/province-developing-new-health-data-platform-to-help-defeat-covid-19.html?utm_source=ondemand&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p

Oh and @VectorInst is giving PANTHR 240 GPUs: https://vectorinstitute.ai/2020/04/12/vector-institute-to-support-provincial-efforts-against-covid-19-with-computing-infrastructure-and-data-science-expertise/

Vector Institute to Support Provincial Efforts Against COVID-19 with Computing Infrastructure and...

https://vectorinstitute.ai/2020/04/12/vector-institute-to-support-provincial-efforts-against-covid-19-with-computing-infrastructure-and-data-science-expertise/

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