Transform care pathways

Redesign care delivery to improve access, reduce wait times, and create more seamless patient journeys across the continuum of care.

Optimize procedural areas
& ORs

Increase throughput, improve efficiency, and maximize utilization across operating rooms, procedural suites, and surgical services.

Modernize with digital health & AI

Harness digital health and responsible AI to streamline workflows, enhance decision-making, and improve patient care.

The pressure is real.
The pathway can change.

Canada's healthcare system is under pressure. Long wait times, limited capacity, workforce challenges, and operational inefficiencies are making it harder for people to get the care they need. Your teams are doing extraordinary work - but how can we help ease the burden on the system itself?


CarePath IQ™ specialized focus areas.

With deep institutional expertise across cardiac, surgical, and acute care monitoring,
CarePath IQ™ harnesses this intelligence via three specialized focus areas.

cpiq cardiac icon CarePath: Cardiac

Improve access and flow across the full cardiac pathway. From referral to recovery, we work with your cardiac program to eliminate bottlenecks, optimize your Cath Lab and extend care into the home.

• Scan: Rapid pathway assessment to identify your highest-impact constraints
• Design: Co-designed care pathway blueprints with your clinical and operational leads
• Optimize: Cath Lab throughput improvement and scheduling redesign
• Digital Health Enablement: Implementation of digital health solutions to augment pathway improvements and unlock new opportunities for enhanced performance and patient care.

cpiq surgical iconCarePath: Surgical

Unlock capacity and reduce wait times. Canada's surgical backlog is a national crisis. Our 9-dimensional OR review identifies every source of lost capacity – and our Implementation team stays with you until the gains are real and sustained.

• 9-dimensional Operating Room capacity review
• Scheduling, block allocation and turnover redesign
• Prehabilitation and pre-surgical optimization pathways
• Implementation Science: embedded support until outcomes are achieved

cpiq cardiac icon CarePath: Home

Extend care beyond the hospital. We help health systems design and operationalize hospital-at-home and virtual care models that safely shift appropriate acute and chronic care patients outside of a hospital's physical walls.

• Home-first care pathway design and clinical protocol development
• Virtual hospital program build and operationalization
• Remote monitoring integration and clinical workflow alignment
• Total pathway modernization: from acute admission avoidance to supported discharge


Proven results from Canadian health systems

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22% increase in total cardiac surgeries performed
NLHS / Eastern Health

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44% reduction in median wait times for cardiac surgery
NB Heart Centre

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10 % Increase in CABG procedures
NLHS / Eastern Health


CarePath IQ™ AI Lab

Guided by Medtronic’s Global AI Compass for responsible use of AI, CarePath IQ™'s AI Lab continuously identifies the highest potential AI solutions to improve optimized care pathways.


A Canadian team, embedded in the systems we serve.


CarePath IQ™ is delivered by a Canadian team with careers built inside the health systems we serve. Our consultants hold clinical and advanced graduate credentials (BScN, MBA, M.Eng, MHI, MHA) and have worked as nurses, health system administrators and engineers before joining Medtronic. We are bilingual, coast-to-coast and embedded – not parachuted in.


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Patient Centricity

Every pathway decision is evaluated through the lens of patient experience and clinical outcomes – not just throughput.

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Operational Excellence

We use proven implementation science to ensure changes stick. Recommendations without adoption are just documents.

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Digitally-Focused

We integrate data, analytics and responsible AI into every engagement, not as an add-on, but as a core capability.

Prefer to reach us directly?

Kevin Bernard — National Leader, Integrated Health Solutions, Medtronic Canada
kevin.bernard@medtronic.com
Talha Hussain — Senior Consulting Program Manager, Medtronic Canada
talha.hussain@medtronic.com