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Coverage of Firstline

News & Features

• Intravenous to Oral Antimicrobial Switch: A Win for Patients and the Planet
  (Health Quality BC, 2026)
• McMaster researchers begin rolling out national recommendations for the prescription of antibiotics
  (McMaster News, 2026)
• Clinical decision support tool offers infection prevention guidance in animal care settings
  (American Veterinary Medical Association, 2025)
• New veterinary infection prevention and control tool provides clinical guidance and professional development opportunities
  (American Animal Hospital Association, 2025)
• New York City Health Department Launches Digital Tool to Help Veterinary Professionals Prevent Infections in Animals and People
  (NYC Health Department, 2025)
• Antibiotic resistance in Canada: What you can do
  (The Daily Scan, 2025)
• What to 'hone in on' to confirm a measles diagnosis
  (Healio, 2025)
• App boosts antibiotic prescribing safety in outpatient clinics
  (News-Medical.net, 2025)
• The Silent Pandemic: The Consequences of Antibiotic Misuse
  (InnovateON, 2025)
• Prescription for disaster: Why the drugs we use to treat illness may be making us sicker
  (Toronto Star, 2025)
• Pan-Canadian Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance: Year 1 Progress Report
  (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2024)
• Veterinary medicine is key to overcoming antimicrobial resistance
  (Stat News / Scott Weese, 2024)
• Canada introduces new guidelines to tackle antimicrobial resistance
  (Global News, 2024)
• Online tool helps physicians choose medications
  (CTV News, 2024)
• Canada’s blue economy is making waves
  (Toronto Star, 2023)
• Hospitals, tech platform team up against antimicrobial resistance
  (Longmont Leader, 2023)
• Children’s Colorado Provides Pediatric Guidance to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship Statewide
  (Children’s Hospital Colorado, 2023)
• Firstline As A City-Wide Platform To Support Antimicrobial Stewardship: Insights From New York City
  (ID Stewardship, 2023)
• It’s time for action in Canada’s fight against superbugs
  (The Hill Times, 2023 - Read full version here)
• Public-private partnerships can improve global health care
  (The Hill Times, 2023 - Read full version here)
• WHO, Canadian startup Firstline team up to combat global health threat
  (BetaKit, 2022)
• Moving WHO guidance on antibiotics into the heart of clinical practice
  (World Health Organization, 2022)
• World Health Organization Partners with Firstline, to Deliver Global Antimicrobial Guidance
  (Digital Supercluster, 2022)
• WHO Partners with Canadian Company
  (CTV News, 2022)
• WHO Partners with Firstline on Antimicrobial Resistance

  (CBC Radio, 2022)

• WHO taps Firstline app to address global pandemic of antimicrobial resistance
  (Fierce Healthcare, 2022)
• WHO picks Canadian startup to help tackle antibiotic resistance
  (Toronto Star, 2022)
• Canadian company partners with WHO to provide guidance on antimicrobial assistance
  (Global News, 2022)
• WHO partners with Vancouver tech company to help doctors prescribe the right antibiotic drugs
  (CBC, 2022)
• 5 Tips For Advancing Your Antimicrobial Stewardship Practice
  (IDStewardship.com, 2022)
• New mobile tool determines if a patient is low risk for true allergy to penicillin
  (BC Medical Journal, 2022)
• Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City Firstline Launch
  (SSMC, Abu Dhabi, 2021)
• Demonstration of Firstline- AMU Guidance for Production Animals
  (CVMA-SAVI, Canada 2021)
• Optimal use of antibiotics in animals? There’s an app for that
  (University of Calgary, 2021)
• Five Challenges With Creating And Managing Institutional Guidelines For Infectious Diseases
  (IDStewardship.com, 2021)
• Five Tips For Developing Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines
  (IDStewardship.com, 2021)
• BC Children’s allergist Tiffany Wong spearheads new mobile tool to help doctors de-label penicillin allergy in patients
  (Doctors of BC, 2021)
• How technology can help during a pandemic
  (Horizon Health Network, New Brunswick, 2020)
• New app will help New Brunswick doctors combat COVID-19
  (CBC.ca, 2020)
• N.L. has a problem with prescription meds - here's what's being done about it
  (CBC.ca, 2019)
• App Helps Healthcare Professionals Optimize Appropriateness of Antimicrobial Prescribing
  (Choosing Wisely Canada, 2019)
• New Ventures BC Top 10 Spotlight
  (British Columbia, 2019)
• Tapping the power of Firstline
  (Saskatchewan Medical Association Fall Digest, 2019)
• Keep antibiotics working for you
  (Oak Valley Health, Ontario, 2019)
• Minding the Gap at InnovationEX
  (HealthPRO News, Canada, 2019)

Interviews

• LIVE at the 2025 AMR Symposium: The Public Health Agency of Canada’s AMR Task Force and the Pan Canadian Action Plan with Dr. Kanchana Amuratunga
  (The Canadian Breakpoint, 2025)
• Why Is Nobody Using Your Guidelines? Insights On Designing Useful Guidelines For Infectious Diseases
  (IDStewardship.com, 2022)
• Connecting Clinicians with Innovative Technology
  (Health2049 Podcast, 2022)
• Why Are Infectious Diseases Specialists Excited about Firstline?
  (IDStewardship.com, 2022)

Research

• Barriers, facilitators, and opportunities for hospital antimicrobial stewardship in low and lower middle - income countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region: results from a mixed methods study
  (Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 2025. By N. Shamas, E. Tayler, M. Holm, H. Amer, S. Fazaludeen Koya)
• Impact of integrating guidelines into an antimicrobial stewardship smartphone application on outpatient antibiotic prescribing: a segmented interrupted time series analysis
  (Frontiers in Digital Health, 2025. By A. Sadeq, L. Alhaj Ali, J. Shamseddine, B. Conway, S. Bond, R. Ali, W. Lattyak, Z. Babiker, M. Aldeyab)
• Reliability and validation of an electronic penicillin allergy risk-assessment tool in a pregnant population
  (Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2024. By J. Wang, C. Elwood, V. Paquette, et al.)
• Point-of-care tool for significantly improved compliance with guidelines and clinical outcomes
  (Presented ECCMID, 2024. By Z. Babiker et al, Antimicrobial Stewardship Study Group, Shakhbout Medical City, UAE)
• Firstline : l’univers de la bonne utilisation des antibiotiques à portée de main
  (Rev Med Suisse, Vol. 10, no. 858, 2024, 2023. By D. Bosetti)
• Enforcing surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use to drive stewardship: experience in a paediatric setting
  (Verona, 2023. By A. Zaffagnini, E. Rigotti, F. Opri, R. Opri, G. Simiele, M. Tebon, M. Sibani, the ENSURE Working Group, G. Piacentini, E. Tacconelli, E. Carrara)
• Pan-Canadian Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
  (Ottawa, Public Health Agency of Canada, 2023)
• Design and uptake of a web-based, trivia-themed, medical education serious game in infectious diseases
  (Vancouver, 2022. By S. Peermohamed, M. Heynen)
• Use of a smartphone app to inform healthcare workers of hospital policy during a pandemic such as COVID-19: A mixed methods observational study
  (Netherlands, 2022. By R. I. Helou, C. M. Waltmans–den Breejen, J. A. Severin, M. E. J. L. Hulscher, A. Verbon.)
• Impact of a mobile decision support tool on antimicrobial stewardship indicators in St. John’s, Canada
  (Canada, 2021. By Daniel Doyle, Gerald McDonald, Claire Pratt, Zahra Rehan, Tammy Benteau, Jennifer Phillips, Peter Daley.)
• Evaluating Impact of Incorporating Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Infectious Diseases into an Electronic Application (App)
  (Canada, 2021. By Emily K Black, Holly MacKinnon, Jeannette Comeau, Caroline King, Kathryn L Slayter.)
• Study protocol for an international, multicentre stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial to evaluate the impact of a digital antimicrobial stewardship smartphone application
  (Netherlands, 2021. By R I Helou, Gaud Catho, Annabel Peyravi Latif, Johan Mouton, M Hulscher, Steven Teerenstra, John Conly, Benedikt D Huttner, Thomas Tängdén, Annelies Verbon.)
• Rapid and Sustained Adoption of a Novel Antimicrobial Stewardship Mobile App throughout Saskatchewan
  (Saskatchewan, 2019. By S. Peermohamed, J. Kosar.)

AMR Impact Stories

• Antibiotic resistance kills over 1m people a year, says study - Financial Times, 2022
• Special Report FT Health: Future of Antibiotics - Financial Times, 2022
• Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis - The Lancet, 2022
• Deadly Germs, Lost Cures - The New York Times, 2019
• Drug-resistant infections have increased in hospitals during the pandemic - The New York Times, 2021
• Drug-Resistant Infections in Hospitals Soared During the Pandemic, C.D.C. Says - The New York Times, 2021

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Key Collaborations

• World Health Organization
• Public Health Agency, Government of Canada
• DIGITAL, Government of Canada