May 6, 2026
TORONTO – Michael Green (pictured), CEO of Canada Health Infoway, has been dismissed by the board after the collapse of the $300 million e-Prescribe program. The program is also being investigated by a parliamentary committee that’s seeking to find out why it failed and what the money was spent on.
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May 6, 2026
NEWMARKET, Ont. - Southlake Health has issued a request for expressions of interest to identify potential partners to develop an advanced care centre in Georgina. The request is part of Southlake’s vision to transform into a Distributed Health Network (DHN), which was endorsed by Ontario’s government earlier this week, Southlake Health said.
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May 6, 2026
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has already abandoned the idea of partnering with U.S.-based Epic Systems for the deployment of digital health records across the whole province, due to fears of mounting costs and privacy concerns, Montreal’s Gazette newspaper reported.
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May 6, 2026
QUEBEC CITY - Lime Health, a Quebec-based B Corp certified company and leader in patient experience measurement, announced the closing of a financing through a group of private investors, Desjardins through its Startup in Residence program, and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).
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May 6, 2026
TORONTO - A new report, written by Will Falk (pictured) and published by CSA Group, argues that accelerated, supervised adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in healthcare is both necessary and defensible. The balance of risk now favours a fast-paced but thoughtful bias toward implementation.
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May 6, 2026
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. president Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was nominating Dr Nicole B Saphier (pictured) as his pick for surgeon general.
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May 6, 2026
CALGARY - A new study out of the University of Calgary, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal , found that nearly all Canadian physicians use electronic health records, but those records are often disconnected. That often leaves clinicians without access to the information they need from clinics and hospitals.
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May 6, 2026
MONTREAL – Vigilance Santé, a Canadian leader in clinical decision support solutions for medication, announces the acquisition of MedSafer, a Quebec-based company that has spent several years developing and scientifically validating deprescribing tools.
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May 6, 2026
HAMILTON, Ont. – McMaster University has announced the appointment of Dr. Nancy Baxter (pictured) to vice-president and dean, Faculty of Health Sciences beginning August 31, 2026.
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May 6, 2026
TORONTO - MaRS Discovery District and the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) have announced the grand prize winner of the Rural and Remote Community Cancer Screening Challenge, an innovation competition designed to improve access to cancer screening for people living in rural, remote and underserved communities across Canada.
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