Changing the landscape of recovery

Emergency physician and digital health pioneer Dr. Kendall Ho is proving that the best place to recover after an emergency room visit isn’t a hospital bed, it’s at home.

Working in both clinical practice and health research, he is redesigning the discharge experience by equipping patients with smart, home-monitoring digital sensors. His work empowers people to take an active role in their own healing while remaining safely connected to their care team in real time.

By creating a seamless transition from the hospital to the community, these programs do more than just shorten recovery times. They fundamentally improve a patient’s quality of life while creating a powerful ripple effect across the health system with measurable drops in hospital readmissions and emergency room return visits. 

Kendall credits the success of these digital tools to the inclusion of lived experience partners from day one. By centering their experiences in study design through to everyday use, the technology becomes relevant to the people using it. 

Explore more of Kendall’s work and its impact on British Columbians below.