CHICAGO – HIMSS, a leading advisor and professional society committed to reforming the global health ecosystem through information and technology, has announced the launch of a new modernized Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM).
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REGINA – PCL Construction has won a contract worth $898 million to build a new tower at the Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert. The contract includes design and construction of a new acute care tower directly north of the existing hospital facility.
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Overseeing the purchase, repair and replacement of 3,800 desktops, laptops, notebooks, kiosks and shared workstations at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) used to be a lot more of a headache before it signed a device lifecycle management agreement in 2019 with Nova Networks, an IT services company with 400 staff and offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Hudson, Quebec, and Ogdensburg, New York.
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BROCKVILLE, Ont. – SDI Canada, Canadian leader in medical infrastructure, unveiled their project for Ontario’s first-ever modular MRI Cassette at Brockville General Hospital, to be up and running by spring 2024. This cutting-edge technology will enable the hospital to recreate a secure environment needed to operate medical equipment, which in this case is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system.
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REGINA – Both Saskatchewan Cancer and Saskatchewan Health Authority have engaged North West Telepharmacy Solutions (NTS) compounding consultants to conduct comprehensive assessments of all their sterile compounding facilities including renovation plans to comply with the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) Standard requirements.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – A Mississauga-based company has pledged to donate as much as $75 million to help Trillium Health Partners with a major expansion. Industrial real estate developer Orlando Corporation said it will match each donation made up to $75 million in the fundraising effort.
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EDMONTON – Alberta Health Services (AHS) will ask a third party to review the cause of a health network outage on Monday that impacted services across the province. The outage was resolved later in the day, and services were restored. The services included Connect Care and electronic medical records, Health Link 811, and community and hospital lab services.
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – The Sault Area Hospital joins the list of healthcare organizations experiencing computer system outages as of late, with system failures on Sunday and into Monday. “This has nothing to do with a ransomware or malware attack,” said Sue Roger, SAH vice president of clinical operations and chief nursing executive, speaking to the SAH board of directors at its regular monthly meeting on Monday evening.
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OTTAWA – Computer issues affected two Ottawa-area hospitals last weekend, one week after a “critical” network outage at all three campuses of The Ottawa Hospital. A code grey is called when a hospital experiences a loss of a utility, like power or telecommunications, that impacts operations.
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TORONTO – Construction is underway at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) where thermal exchange technology is being installed to heat and cool the institution in a first-of-its-kind Toronto project. The $43 million Wastewater Energy Transfer (WET) system will exchange thermal energy from the city’s wastewater and sewer infrastructure to displace fossil fuel used by the hospital.
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