SASKATOON – Local philanthropists Leslie and Irene Dubé have made a major donation to bring a new nuclear imaging scanner to the Royal University Hospital (RUH). The $2 million donation is for the hospital’s first dual-modality Single Proton Emission Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography (SPECT-CT) diagnostic imaging scanner.
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TORONTO – North York General Hospital (NYGH) has introduced a new state-of the-art Endoscopic Ultrasound System (EUS) that will provide patients with a faster diagnosis so they can be treated sooner. The EUS provides the highest standard of care for assessing and diagnosing diseases of the digestive tract including cancer.
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SCARBOROUGH, Ont. – Scarborough Health Network (SHN) Foundation is thrilled to announce a generous donation of $1 million from the Honey & Barry Sherman Legacy Foundation to support exceptional healthcare for Scarborough.
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BARRIE, Ont. – The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH), in Barrie, Ont., is now operating a PET/CT scanner that will benefit patients throughout the Simcoe Muskoka region. It’s the only hospital from Sudbury in the north to Newmarket in the south that is equipped with one.
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WINNIPEG – A Manitoba facility that creates isotopes used to detect cancer failed its latest Health Canada inspection after the regulator found the facility mishandled test results, didn’t follow proper sterility practices and inadequately trained workers. This is the fourth time the Winnipeg Cyclotron Facility – the sole producer of medical isotopes in Manitoba – was found non-compliant by Health Canada in the past 10 years, CBC News reported.
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OWEN SOUND, Ont. – Brightshores Health System has introduced Automated CT Perfusion Software at the Owen Sound Hospital, helping to properly identify the type of stroke someone is having. “It represents an advance in our treatment of stroke in that it allows us to see how the brain circulation has failed and what parts of the brain are still alive and salvageable,” said Dr. Brian Young (pictured), a neurologist at the hospital.
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CHICAGO – An Australian diagnostic imaging organization has surged ahead with an enterprise-scale implementation of AI, deploying Annalise.ai to 250 sites and to over 400 radiologists across the country.
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After years of chasing an inefficient, tedious and time-consuming paper trail, diagnostic imaging (DI) departments at two Ontario hospitals are axing the fax and turning to more efficient digital workflows for requisitions and referrals.
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VANCOUVER – Tarzan and Jane are AI-powered robots working in a sterile laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown Vancouver. Together, they handle and process up to 70 per cent of the hospital’s microbiology samples. The pair unscrew specimen tubes and streak the samples onto bacterial culture plates in the new $1-million automated WASPLab, short for “walk-away specimen processor.”
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – In a bid to allow patients to get the surgeries and treatment they need in a more timely manner, Ontario has tapped an assessment body as the inspection body that will oversee community surgical and diagnostic centres. Starting April 1, 2024, Accreditation Canada will be responsible for ensuring the highest quality standards and strong oversight of the 900+ current and all future such centres in the province.
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