Cambian
Digital Health Platform
A Platform Designed for Modern Healthcare
The Cambian Digital Health Platform is a comprehensive, cloud‑native digital health platform designed to enable self‑management, improve coordination of care, and support data‑driven decision‑making across the healthcare ecosystem. It connects individuals, families, care teams, administrators, and researchers through a modular suite of applications built on open standards and a shared clinical data foundation.
As a digital front door, the platform provides a single, coherent entry point for individuals and families to access information, complete assessments, book services, receive guidance, and participate in care while seamlessly connecting to organizational systems behind the scenes.
At its core, the platform supports secure collection, exchange, and use of health information using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Its distributed architecture separates individual‑controlled Personal Health Records (PHRs) from organizational Clinical Data Repositories (CDRs), enabling privacy‑by‑design, clear data stewardship, and integrated consent management.
The platform is designed to be extensible and configurable, allowing healthcare organizations to deploy targeted capabilities quickly and evolve them over time without large‑scale system replacement.
Cambian provides information services that enable collaboration between individuals, families, care providers, researchers, and others in the healthcare ecosystem
Cambian Navigator – Empowering Individuals and Families
Cambian Navigator is the individual‑facing application that enables people and their families to actively participate in their care. It provides practical, easy‑to‑use tools that support day‑to‑day health management, communication, and follow‑up. Navigator functions as the primary digital front door for patients and caregivers supporting onboarding, self-service access, education, and ongoing engagement across hospital, community, and home-based care.
Key features include:
- Dashboard: A centralized view presenting notifications, news, educational articles, and personalized updates.
- Network: The ability to connect with healthcare organizations, care teams, and trusted individuals.
- Messages: Secure messaging for communication with care providers and organizations.
- Activities: Tools for managing care plans, tasks, and work in progress.
- Data: Collection and review of questionnaire responses, biometrics, encounters, lab requisitions, trends, and other health information.
- User Profile: Management of demographics, preferences, authentication, and personal settings.
Navigator supports multi‑channel engagement (web and mobile) and is designed to be accessible to diverse populations, including elderly and less tech‑savvy users. Through reminders, notifications, and educational content, it reinforces adherence to care plans and encourages sustained engagement.
Cambian Coordinator – Supporting Healthcare Organizations and Researchers
Cambian Coordinator is the application used by care providers, researchers, and administrators to manage engagement, workflows, and data.
Key features include:
- Dashboard: Operational views of notifications, tasks, and reports.
- Network: Management of individuals, families, and groups.
- Messages: Secure communication with individuals and teams.
- Services: Tools for organizing campaigns, programs, and care plans.
- Data: A comprehensive repository of patient, practitioner, encounter, location, and other clinical data.
- Editors: Configurable tools for questionnaires, widgets, care plans, message templates, articles, news, and announcements.
- Settings: Management of profiles, permissions, reports, and organizational configurations.
Coordinator enables enrollment, consent management, care planning, automation of clinical guidelines or research protocols, proactive outreach, and aggregation of data to support team‑based care and reporting.
Cambian Scheduler
Cambian Scheduler provides appointment booking and resource management capabilities for healthcare service delivery organizations.
Key features include:
- Centralized scheduling across programs and services
- Integration with public health systems such as Panorama
- Automated reminders and notifications
- Configurable workflows for clinics, programs, and community services
Scheduler is used in multiple jurisdictions to support public health and community‑based service delivery.
SMART on FHIR Applications
Cambian offers a suite of SMART on FHIR applications that integrate directly with Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and Clinical Information Systems (CIS). These plug‑and‑play apps provide specialized functionality such as family health, public health registry access, chronic disease management, and cancer‑related workflows.
By leveraging SMART on FHIR, these applications launch seamlessly within clinician workflows while accessing data from organizational systems of record in a secure and standards‑based manner.
Intelligent, Explainable Decision Support
The Cambian Digital Health Platform includes built-in support for AI-enabled decision support and workflow automation, designed to augment not replace clinical judgment.
Cambian is currently introducing AI tools supporting explainable, guideline-based decision support using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and CDS Hooks. These capabilities enable:
- Automation of evidence-based clinical guidelines and care pathways
- Proactive alerts and follow-up triggers based on patient-reported data and trends
- Personalized education and next-step recommendations for individuals and families
- Support for risk stratification and proactive outreach for priority populations
The platform’s modular architecture allows additional AI tools developed by Cambian or third-party vendors to be integrated without architectural change, ensuring flexibility, transparency, and alignment with ethical and regulatory expectations.
Cloud-Native. Configurable. Scalable.
The Cambian Digital Health Platform is built as a cloud‑native service, deployed on secure Canadian‑hosted infrastructure. Its distributed, API‑centric architecture supports scalability, resilience, and high availability.
Key architectural characteristics include:
- FHIR‑native data model for interoperability and future‑proofing
- SMART on FHIR, HL7 v2/v3, and RESTful APIs for integration with EMRs and legacy systems
- Modular services that can be deployed independently
- Support for AI and decision support using standards such as Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and CDS Hooks
This architecture allows organizations to augment existing systems rather than replace them, reducing cost, risk, and implementation timelines.