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January 8, 2020
TORONTO – The board of directors of Ontario Health has announced that Matthew Anderson (pictured) is joining the new provincial health care agency as its President and CEO effective February 1, 2020. Since 2016 he has been serving as the President and CEO of Lakeridge Health, a health system and hospital network that serves Durham Region, Ontario.
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January 8, 2020
VANCOUVER – A second class action lawsuit has been filed over the ransom-ware attack that targeted the laboratory testing company LifeLabs, this time in B.C. Supreme Court. An earlier class action was initiated in Ontario in December.
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January 8, 2020
MONTREAL – AlayaCare, an award-winning technology platform for home and community care, has announced the acquisition of Procura, a division of Complia Health, a leading global provider of enterprise software for long-term and post-acute care organizations. With nearly 200 customers, Procura was founded in 1989 and has operations in Canada and Australia.
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January 8, 2020
HALIFAX – Any time his stage-four COPD flares up, Sheldon Williams can end up spending several breathless hours in the emergency room, waiting to be assessed and given the medication he needs to clear the obstructive secretions from his compromised lungs.
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January 8, 2020
MONTREAL – Dr. Pierre Gfeller, president and executive director of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), is proud to announce the two most recent appointments to the organization’s world-class clinical team. Effective January 1, 2020, Dr. Marc Rodger (pictured on left) will assume the functions of physician-in-chief and medical director of the Medical Mission of the MUHC, while Dr. Diego Martin (pictured on right) will become diagnostic radiologist-in-chief of the MUHC.
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January 8, 2020
TORONTO – Philanthropists and business leaders Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman (pictured) joined University of Toronto President Meric Gertler, Chancellor Rose Patten, Vector Institute President and CEO Garth Gibson and other university and community leaders to break ground on the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.
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January 8, 2020
FREDERICTON, N.B. – The New Brunswick government is looking at ways to centralize hospital laboratories, including a proposal that would see the number of facilities slashed by more than half. A request for proposals in November is aimed at finding private-sector management consultants who can develop a plan to consolidate 20 hospital labs into as few as seven.
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January 8, 2020
TORONTO – Patients across Ontario say there are not enough publicly available home care services when they transition from hospital to home. It’s this shortage that needs to be addressed to improve the patient experience, according to research led by St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto.
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January 8, 2020
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Lynn Guerriero (pictured), an accomplished executive leader in the Ontario health system, will assume the role of president of Niagara Health effective Tuesday, February 18, 2020. This appointment follows a national search that attracted strong candidates and led to Lynn’s unanimous selection due to her unique set of skills, passion and vision for high-quality healthcare in Niagara.
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December 18, 2019
MONTREAL – Imagia, a leading healthcare AI company that unites healthcare expertise and advanced AI technology to improve patient outcomes, has announced EVIDENS partnerships with the following major North American hospitals: Center hospitalier universitaire de Québec - Université Laval, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l’Estrie – Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, Jewish General Hospital (JGH), the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and its Research Institute (RI-MUHC), Penn Medicine, and the University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CHUM).
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