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Vess Stamenova: CSSN Speaker

Vess Stamenova

Toronto

Position: Assistant Professor

Organization: Toronto Metropolitan University

Vess Stamenova is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology Management at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, and an Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Hospital. Her research examines how technology is used in the healthcare system, with a focus on clinical informatics (technology used in patient care), telemedicine, and a broad range of virtual care modalities—including video, phone, messaging, remote patient monitoring, and patient self-management apps. Vess is interested in understanding how the use of technology impacts patients and healthcare providers experience, patient outcomes, cost to the healthcare system, and access to care across various vulnerable patient populations, including immigrants. She uses mixed-methods research, including qualitative, quantitative and population-based health administrative studies. Her research ultimately feeds back into supporting organizational and policy decisions around the use of virtual care.

Areas of Expertise:

+ Clinical Informatics

Language(s):

+ English
+ Bulgarian


About Me

Sector: Academia (Post Secondary)

English proficiency: Read, Write, Speak

French proficiency: Read

Other Language(s): Bulgarian

Early Career Investigator: Yes

Willing to Mentor: Yes

Title: Dr.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Gender: Female

Demographic: European / White


Recent Publications

Title Year
Impact of billing policy changes on telehealth use in Ontario: A population-based repeated cross-sectional study2026
Artificial Intelligence-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems in Primary Care: A Systematic Review of Clinical Implementation (Preprint)2026
Adoption of asynchronous secure messaging in hospital-based ambulatory specialty clinics in Ontario, Canada: A convergent mixed-methods study (Preprint)2026
Leveraging Cultural-Language Translation Apps to Support and Promote Equitable Older Adult Care: A Scoping Review2026
Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire: a comparison of young and older adults2024
Virtual care use among older immigrant adults in Ontario, Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: A repeated cross-sectional analysis2023
Virtual care use prior to emergency department admissions during a stable COVID-19 period in Ontario, Canada2023
Impact of virtual visits on primary care physician work flows2023
Redesigning primary care2023
The Use of Telemedicine in Older-Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Weekly Cross-Sectional Analysis in Ontario, Canada2022
Mailed Letter Versus Phone Call to Increase Diabetic-Related Retinopathy Screening Engagement by Patients in a Team-Based Primary Care Practice: Prospective, Single-Masked, Randomized Trial2022
The Association Between Telemedicine Use and Changes in Health Care Usage and Outcomes in Patients With Congestive Heart Failure: Retrospective Cohort Study2022
Hospital-based ambulatory clinic adoption of video and telephone visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a convergent mixed-methods study2022
Virtual care use during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on healthcare utilization in patients with chronic disease: A population-based repeated cross-sectional study2022
Perceptions of a Teleophthalmology Screening Program for Diabetic Retinopathy in Adults With Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Urban Primary Care Settings2022
Comparison of Healthcare Utilization Between Telemedicine and Standard Care: A Propensity-Score Matched Cohort Study Among Individuals With Chronic Psychotic Disorders in Ontario, Canada2022
Closing the Virtual Gap in Health Care: A Series of Case Studies Illustrating the Impact of Embedding Evaluation Alongside System Initiatives2021
Implementation Strategies to Improve Engagement With a Multi-Institutional Patient Portal: Multimethod Study2021
Using Administrative Data to Explore Potentially Aberrant Provision of Virtual Care During COVID-19: Retrospective Cohort Study of Ontario Provincial Data2021
Rural Telemedicine Use Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated Cross-sectional Study2021
Virtual care use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional study2021
Using the technology acceptance model to explore health provider and administrator perceptions of the usefulness and ease of using technology in palliative care2020
Exploring how virtual primary care visits affect patient burden of treatment2020
Uptake and patient and provider communication modality preferences of virtual visits in primary care: a retrospective cohort study in Canada2020
Evaluating the Implementation of a Remote-Monitoring Program for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Qualitative Methods from a Service Design Perspective2020