Digital Health Founders is a Santis Health series featuring one-on-one conversations with leaders from across Canada’s digital health ecosystem. From transformative startups to public sector changemakers, these episodes explore how innovators are shaping the future of care through collaboration, technology and bold thinking.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia, Founder and CEO of Amplify Care, a leading not-for-profit organization dedicated to driving bold digital health and AI adoption across the healthcare system.

Dr. Alarakhia shares the story of Amplify Care’s founding and evolution, how his firsthand experience as a practicing family doctor shapes his approach to technology, his passion for co-designing solutions with clinicians and patients to reduce administrative burden, and where he sees the Canadian digital health landscape going in the future.

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Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia, Chief Executive Officer, Amplify Care

Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia is the founder of and visionary force behind Amplify Care (formerly the eHealth Centre of Excellence), where his extensive experience in primary care as a practicing family doctor at the Centre for Family Medicine FHT and deep expertise in health informatics have shaped the organization’s bold approach to digital health and AI adoption. As a leading influence in the field, Dr. Alarakhia is dedicated to transforming Canada’s healthcare system by driving ground-breaking, patient-centred solutions that reduce administrative burden for clinicians, while creating more efficient and proactive workflows that can improve patient outcomes. His passion for actioning evidence and championing co-design with clinicians and patients has made him a transformative player in the Canadian digital health ecosystem, continually pushing boundaries to ensure Amplify Care remains at the forefront of innovation and that care is delivered efficiently and effectively.

Dr. Alarakhia was awarded the Digital Health Executive of the Year Award in 2019 and the College of Family Physicians of Canada Award of Excellence in 2018 and 2022. He was recognized by Digital Health Canada as the Clinical Innovator of the Year in 2023, and in 2024, he was the recipient of the John C. Sibley Award for Excellence in Education for Part-Time Faculty. Dr. Alarakhia and Amplify Care won the Innovation Award in 2022 from the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. Amplify Care also received a Canadian Medical Association Joule Innovation Grant and an AFHTO Team Award in 2020, as well as a Patient Care Innovation Team Award at the 2019 Canadian Health Informatics Awards, and a 2019 Ingenious Award from the Information Technology Association of Canada.