Earlier this year, we shared:
We are currently working with Conestoga College and their SMART Centre on an applied research project funded through the NSERC. This project will last 8 months and aims to make platform and security improvements to the Electronic Medical Record system used by ourselves and other family doctors around the country.
To get the ball moving, Magenta Health has pre-committed $20,000 towards this project, but we’re asking patients to consider pledging their LifeLabs settlement money towards this work as well.
Over the last six months, the Conestoga College team has leveraged our pre-commitment of $20,000 in cash to make incredible progress. Entire software frameworks have been upgraded and numerous security risks have been mitigated. Notably, this work has involved the use of AI to rewrite hundreds of files automatically. For those involved in software development, these stats from the latest pull request should amaze (and scare you):
2,497 modified files (not a typo!)
74,526 new lines of code
46,345 deleted lines of code
We’ve been so impressed with their progress that we have agreed to support this work for another three years at minimum, with Magenta Health founders and physicians jointly pre-committing over that time period approximately $100,000 in cash and $300,000 of in-kind contributions. For a small organization like us, this is a huge donation but we think it’s worth it in the long-term.