RICHMOND HILL, ONT. – Mackenzie Health has announced the second phase of its Innovation Unit, a living laboratory with 34-beds that is about to implement and test smart messaging and clinical alerting, in conjunction with partners BlackBerry, Cisco and Thoughtwire. The...

One year after going live, a project to improve patient safety at 10 hospitals in southwestern Ontario has reduced the number of adverse drug events by 35 percent, an astonishing achievement. “And two of the hospitals have reduced their ADEs...

Intelligent building design can improve how a hospital operates in new and significant ways. The newly constructed Oakville hospital, one of a trio of sites managed by Halton Health Services (HHS) in Ontario, was designed with a mega-network – a...

Once the groundwork was laid at London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London, migrating their core IT systems to the cloud was instantaneous. “It was like a NASA launch,” said Glen Kearns, integrated vice-president of diagnostic services...

David Ting was sitting in the doctors’ lounge of a hospital in the Midwest U.S. when he noticed a man cursing at a computer station, pounding the keys with obvious frustration. Ting, co-founder and CTO of healthcare IT security company...

VICTORIA, BC – Cerner will replace IBM as the lead contractor in the $842 million electronic health record integration project in British Columbia. The system, known as the Clinical + Systems Transformation project, is intended to modernize and integrate the...

ST. JOHN’S – Eastern Health, in Newfoundland, says it has found a missing USB flash drive containing the personal information of thousands of employees – it was in a file folder in the Human Resources department the whole time. The mishap...

TORONTO – MediSolution, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Computer Systems, announced that it has entered into a partnership with World Software Inc., a privately owned company based in Edmonton. The partnership formalizes a longstanding relationship that has seen the...

TORONTO – Orion Health, a population health management and healthcare integration company, has announced the promotion of Cheryl McKay (pictured), PhD, RN, to Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) of North America. In her new role, Dr. McKay will provide strategic guidance...

LONDON, Ont. – TD Bank Group is donating $500,000 to support training for doctors in women’s care, including those focused on pregnancy, birthing and newborn care at London Health Sciences Centre. The money will be used to help create a dedicated...