OROT - About us

OROT – Connected Health Innovation Hub was founded in 2020 by the CIUSSS West Central Montreal and Jewish General Hospital to help find innovative, efficient, and cost-effective ways of responding to the changing demographics and medical needs of our patients.

We work with our users, our clinical and operational teams, and our industry partners to codevelop and integrate new or significantly improved solutions that generate value for users, teams, and the healthcare system while differentiating themselves on the market (OECD/Eurostat, 2018; Baregeh et al., 2009).

We leverage best practices in innovation, research and design to help users and industry partners work together to create highly usable, accessible, and valuable solutions, applying human factors, ergonomics principles, and usability knowledge and techniques (ISO 9241-210:2019).

OROT works hand in hand with the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal and the Jewish General Hospital to foster innovation by providing access to the expertise of their users, clinicians, researchers, and infrastructure throughout the cycle of innovation.

Jewish General Hospital

Jewish General Hospital (JGH) is one of Canada’s leading hospitals and has been cited by Newsweek as the #1 hospital in Quebec. It has been providing cutting‑edge treatment and compassionate care to patients from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds in Montreal, throughout Quebec and beyond since 1934.

As one of the province’s largest and busiest acute-care hospitals, our 637‑bed McGill University teaching hospital admits more than 23,000 patients a year, while handling at least 300,000 outpatient visits, 95,000 emergency visits and more than 4,000 births on an annual basis.

CIUSSS West-Central Montreal

Jewish General Hospital (JGH) is the hub of the Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal (CIUSSS West-Central Montreal)

The CIUSSS is a partnership of complementary healthcare facilities including JGH, five CLSCs (primary care services, including homecare), five rehabilitation centers, and seven residential centers, covering the entire continuum of care across 34 sites.

Treatment and care are provided by a staff of more than 13,000, including approximately 700 physicians.