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Helen Chen
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Latest papers
Integrating AI Scribe Technology into Public Health Workflows: Simulation and Field Evaluation in Disease Case Management.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics · 2026 · senior author
Deep Learning Models to Screen Electronic Health Records for Breast and Colorectal Cancer Progression: Performance Evaluation Study.
JMIR AI · 2025
How Useful Is Synthetic Data in Developing Predictive Models for Health?
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $95,000
Enabling evidence-based policymaking and interdisciplinary social change research for homelessness: Developing and evaluating CivicInquire, Canada's first intersectional AI-powered social science platform
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $65,500
Future Cities Institute Research Infrastructure: Living Labs and CivicInquire Policy Platform
CFI · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $108,500
Investigating data governance, ethics, and quality measurements of generating and sharing synthetic health data
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
16 publications.
Integrating AI Scribe Technology into Public Health Workflows: Simulation and Field Evaluation in Disease Case Management.
Shakeel N, Riewe N, Rebellato S, Hirschfeld C, Shah R, Whyte M, Takei EK, Baisalov R, Chen H
Deep Learning Models to Screen Electronic Health Records for Breast and Colorectal Cancer Progression: Performance Evaluation Study.
Lambert P, Khan R, Pitz M, Singh H, Chen H, Decker K
How Useful Is Synthetic Data in Developing Predictive Models for Health?
Basri MA, Chen H
Factors That Influence Patient Satisfaction With the Service Quality of Home-Based Teleconsultation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.
Meng G, McAiney C, McKillop I, Perlman CM, Tsao SF, Chen H
Validating part of the social media infodemic listening conceptual framework using structural equation modelling
Shu‐Feng Tsao, Helen Chen, Zahid A Butt
Health Synthetic Data to Enable Health Learning System and Innovation: A Scoping Review.
Tsao SF, Sharma K, Noor H, Forster A, Chen H
Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of Tweets Related to Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada
Shih-Hsio Huang, Shu‐Feng Tsao, Helen Chen, Gaya Bin Noon, Lianghua Li, Yang Yang, Zahid A Butt
Public Attitudes During the Second Lockdown: Sentiment and Topic Analyses Using Tweets From Ontario, Canada
Shu‐Feng Tsao, Alexander C. MacLean, Helen Chen, Lianghua Li, Yang Yang, Zahid A Butt
More-2-Eat implementation demonstrates that screening, assessment and treatment of malnourished patients can be spread and sustained in acute care; a multi-site, pretest post-test time series study.
Keller H, Koechl JM, Laur C, Chen H, Curtis L, Dubin JA, Gramlich L, Ray S, Valaitis R, Yang Y, Bell J
In Situ Measurement of Airborne Particle Concentration in a Real Dental Office: Implications for Disease Transmission.
Razavi M, Butt ZA, Chen H, Tan Z
Enabling evidence-based policymaking and interdisciplinary social change research for homelessness: Developing and evaluating CivicInquire, Canada's first intersectional AI-powered social science platform
Principal investigators: Minaker, Leia
Future Cities Institute Research Infrastructure: Living Labs and CivicInquire Policy Platform
Principal investigators: Minaker, Leia
Keywords: data visualization, housing, policy platform, public health, social policy, urban planning data storage, project management, server, tablets, video bar
Investigating data governance, ethics, and quality measurements of generating and sharing synthetic health data
Principal investigators: Tsao, Shu-Feng
Keywords: Data Governance; Health Synthetic Data; Machine Learning; Policy Analysis; Privacy Enhancing Techniques
Mobile ECG device, data collection and information processing (mECG solution)
Principal investigators: Jiang, Ning
InfoLinCS: Informed and Linked Care for Seniors
Principal investigators: Stolee, Paul
Keywords: Community-Based Care; Health Care Providers; Health Information; Quality Care; Seniors
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Christopher Perlman and Chris Perlman: 101 shared papers
- Heather Keller and Leah Gramlich: 53 shared papers
- Heather Keller and Celia Laur: 34 shared papers
- Kathleen Decker and Harminder Singh: 33 shared papers
- Plinio Morita and Zahid Butt: 31 shared papers
- Marshall Pitz and Harminder Singh: 16 shared papers
- Heather Keller and Carrie McAiney: 15 shared papers
- Marshall Pitz and Kathleen Decker: 15 shared papers
- Leah Gramlich and Celia Laur: 10 shared papers
- Heather Keller and Joel Dubin: 8 shared papers
- Heather Keller and Lori Curtis: 7 shared papers
- Celia Laur and Joel Dubin: 6 shared papers
- Joel Dubin and Lori Curtis: 6 shared papers
- Christopher Perlman and Carrie McAiney: 5 shared papers
- Celia Laur and Lori Curtis: 5 shared papers
- Carrie McAiney and Chris Perlman: 5 shared papers
- Christopher Perlman and Joel Dubin: 4 shared papers
- Zahid Butt and Zhongchao Tan: 4 shared papers
- Zahid Butt and Helen Chen: 4 shared papers
- Joel Dubin and Chris Perlman: 4 shared papers
- Steven Rebellato and Joel Dubin: 3 shared papers
- Leah Gramlich and Joel Dubin: 3 shared papers
- Christopher Perlman and Ian McKillop: 3 shared papers
- Plinio Morita and Joel Dubin: 3 shared papers
- Ian McKillop and Chris Perlman: 3 shared papers
- Carrie McAiney and Ian McKillop: 2 shared papers
- Helen Chen and Ian McKillop: 2 shared papers
- Steven Rebellato and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Heather Keller and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Alan Forster and Leah Gramlich: 1 shared paper
- Alan Forster and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Marshall Pitz and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Kathleen Decker and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Harminder Singh and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Leah Gramlich and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Christopher Perlman and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Plinio Morita and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Celia Laur and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Carrie McAiney and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Zhongchao Tan and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Joel Dubin and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Xi He and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Xi He and Ian McKillop: 1 shared paper
- Lori Curtis and Helen Chen: 1 shared paper
- Helen Chen and Chris Perlman: 1 shared paper
- School of Public Health Sciences
- Cheriton School of Computer Science
- Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
- Public Health Sciences
- Department of Medicine
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
- Department of Internal Medicine
- Other
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Zahid Butt
School of Public Health Sciences
4 shared papers, latest 2024
Ian McKillop
Cheriton School of Computer Science
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Chris Perlman
School of Public Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Heather Keller
Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Alan Forster
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Marshall Pitz
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kathleen Decker
College of Community and Global Health
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Harminder Singh
Department of Internal Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Leah Gramlich
Medicine Dept
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Christopher Perlman
School of Public Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Plinio Morita
School of Public Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Celia Laur
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Carrie McAiney
Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Zhongchao Tan
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Joel Dubin
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Xi He
Cheriton School of Computer Science
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Steven Rebellato
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Lori Curtis
Department of Economics
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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