VAUGHAN, Ont. – As an organization evolving to a two-hospital model and a network of community locations, Mackenzie Health understands the importance of efficient IT connectivity and is now able to share its knowledge with community healthcare providers.
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OTTAWA – The University of Ottawa Heart Institute has celebrated the opening of a multi-year expansion project which will provide, it says, the most sophisticated and technologically advanced cardiovascular care in Canada.
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WINNIPEG – A $61-million addition to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre is $14 million over budget and won’t be completed until 2019, five years after its original due date.
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SARNIA, Ont. – Dramatic increases in Ontario’s electricity costs have led to a 40 percent increase in hydro bills over five years at Bluewater Health, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
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TORONTO – Canada’s only not-for-profit organization dedicated to managing healthcare equipment service contracts, Canadian Medical Equipment Protection Plan (CMEPP), is pleased to announce that over $2.5 million dollars has been saved for hospitals in the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
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TORONTO – North York General Hospital (NYGH), one of Canada’s leading medical facilities, has deployed Pure Storage to host all of its mission-critical applications and patient data. The hospital now hosts its Cerner electronic health record (EHR) applications on Pure Storage all-flash arrays.
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TORONTO – The Scarborough and Rouge Hospital has implemented a new Aruba gigabit wireless network to bring better efficiencies to nurses and physicians. The new wireless network – which is the first complete Wave 2 hospital deployment in Canada – will also ensure that the hospital can accommodate future use cases and applications including Internet of Things (IoT) and indoor location services. Aruba is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
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MONTREAL – Shriners Hospitals for Children – Canada has inaugurated its Motion Analysis Centre (MAC), a facility that uses state-of-the-art technology to evaluate the functional deficits associated with gait in children and, to a lesser extent, to detect the origin of possible functional deficits.
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CALGARY – DIRTT and its Middle East partner NMG Solutions installed a two-story state-of-the-art medical interior in just three days for Arab Health Congress and Exhibition in Dubai, with a construction method that eases some of the Middle East’s most pressing building challenges.
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OTTAWA and TORONTO – Orion Health, a leader in population health management and healthcare integration solutions, announced that The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) has selected Rhapsody Integration Engine to replace its legacy engine. Rhapsody will serve as a long-term solution that will aid in reaching the goal of high quality, patient-centered care, while continuously adapting to integrate with new solutions.
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