Cancer Digital Intelligence

Who we are

Cancer Digital Intelligence (CDI) is a research and innovation program within the Princess Margaret Cancer Center that utilizes data and analytics to continuously improve care for people affected by cancer. Through close collaborations with patients, care teams, researchers, and external partners, CDI is able to advance the scale and application of digital discoveries to transform cancer care, education, and research and create the academic cancer centre of the future.

What we do

CDI’s program structure is built on a strong foundation in Data Science and Analytics that enable progress in three strategic domains: Discovery Integration, Care Innovation, and Business Intelligence.

Discovery Integration bridges the clinic and lab to enable the exchange of data, tools, and ideas that accelerate discovery.

Care Innovation uses digital innovation and service design to improve the continuum of care by streamlining the patient and provider experience and enabling access to care anytime, anywhere.

Business Intelligence harmonizes data and analytics to inform strategic decision-making and optimize care delivery.

Data Science and Analytics are the foundation of each strategic domain and provide the robust data infrastructure and deep expertise needed to advance novel applications of data science and artificial intelligence methods.

The Cancer Centre of the Future

CDI’s work over the next year will continue to advance and build expertise and capacity for large-scale data sharing that unlocks real-time and predictive analytics to guide organizational decision-making. This will include the opening of Canada’s first Cancer Command at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Cancer Command will be a centralized system that curates and visualizes data collected across the cancer program to support informed decision-making, improve efficiency, and deliver the best cancer care. This large-scale initiative led by CDI will transform and optimize clinical workflows by combining deep clinical expertise with robust business intelligence using state-of-the-art data architecture, tools, and technology expertise.