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Navigating the health care system can be overwhelming. An innovative app improving the patient experience at the MUHC is expanding thanks to a $1 million gift from CIBC to the

The Opal patient app, an award-winning RI-MUHC-developed app that empowers patients with their personal health data, recently received a $1 million gift...

  MONTREAL -- Researchers at the MUHC think they’ve found a way to use Opal, a bilingual mobile application developed by scientists at the institution, to ensure that non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients still get the care they need. "Most of the patients with COVID-19 will have no symptoms or will have mild symptoms, but they are alone at home and it’s a new disease and its very stressful," said Dr. Bertrand Lebouche, the principal investigator for a new and just completed study. He cal...