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Kendall Ho

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VCH Clinical Title(s)
Emergency Medical Specialist
Degrees / Designations

MD, FRCPC

Contact Info
kendall.ho@ubc.ca
604-822-0327
KHo8888

Biography

Dr. Kendall Ho is an emergency medical specialist in Vancouver, a professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He leads the Digital Emergency Medicine Unit and is recognized for his ground-breaking research in digital health, spanning over 20 years in areas including: sensors and wearables development and use of big data in health care settings, health apps to improve patient care, virtual health to support care access, and raising digital health literacy for health professionals and patients. 

Dr. Ho is the evaluation lead of the Real Time Virtual Support pillar of the BC Emergency Medicine Network, and the medical director of HealthlinkBC 8-1-1 virtual physician service. He works with B.C. and Canadian governments, non-government organizations and other health policy agencies to support evidence-informed policy translation in digital health. He conducts his research in Canada and internationally with partners in Asia, Europe and Australasia. He chairs the Canadian Association of Emergency Medicine Digital Emergency Medicine Committee and is a member of the Canadian Virtual Care Task Force, the International Medical Informatics Association Telehealth Working Group and the International Federation of Emergency Medicine Novel and Advanced Technologies Special Interest Group. Dr. Ho's work has been recognized with provincial and national awards for research and education in digital health and community engagement.

News and Awards

Moving the dial on darker skin tone representation in medicine

Sep 1, 2022

Virtual physicians enhanced the precision of 8-1-1 calls

Sep 2, 2021

Bringing health education into the social media-savvy 21st century

Jul 22, 2017

TEC4Home moves forward to clinical trials

Jun 27, 2017

Publications

  • CMAJ open -

    Integration of virtual physician visits into a provincial 8-1-1 health information telephone service during the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive study of HealthLink BC Emergency iDoctor-in-assistance (HEiDi).

    Ho K, Lauscher HN, Stewart K, Abu-Laban RB, Scheuermeyer F, Grafstein E, Christenson J, Sundhu S
  • JMIR formative research -

    Testing the Feasibility of Sensor-Based Home Health Monitoring (TEC4Home) to Support the Convalescence of Patients With Heart Failure: Pre-Post Study.

    Ho K, Novak Lauscher H, Cordeiro J, Hawkins N, Scheuermeyer F, Mitton C, Wong H, McGavin C, Ross D, Apantaku G, Karim ME, Bhullar A, Abu-Laban R, Nixon S, Smith T
  • Yearbook of medical informatics -

    Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response.

    Basu A, Kuziemsky C, de Araújo Novaes M, Kleber A, Sales F, Al-Shorbaji N, Flórez-Arango JF, Gogia SB, Ho K, Hunter I, Iyengar S, John O, John S, Kulatunga G, Rajput VK, Ranatunga P, Udayasankaran JG
  • Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) -

    Machine Learning Clustering for Blood Pressure Variability Applied to Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) and the Hong Kong Community Cohort.

    Tsoi KKF, Chan NB, Yiu KKL, Poon SKS, Lin B, Ho K
  • Journal of the American Heart Association -

    Autonomic Alterations After Pulmonary Vein Isolation in the CIRCA-DOSE (Cryoballoon vs Irrigated Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation) Study.

    Tang LYW, Hawkins NM, Ho K, Tam R, Deyell MW, Macle L, Verma A, Khairy P, Sheldon R, Andrade JG,
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