July 29, 2026
TORONTO - Baycrest Hospital is partnering with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre to access a shared implementation of a new HIS powered by the Oracle Health electronic health record (EHR). The partnership will build on Sunnybrook’s Oracle Health implementation and reflects a shared commitment to advancing connected, digitally enabled care through collaboration across Ontario’s health system.
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July 29, 2026
REGINA - Staff at Regina hospitals continue to have a hand-washing problem, despite being informed of the need to clean up their act in 2018. A followup audit by provincial auditor Tara Clemett (pictured) found that as of December 2025, the Saskatchewan Health Authority had yet to implement all of the recommendations her office made seven years ago.
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July 22, 2026
OWEN SOUND, Ont. - Brightshores Health System is leading the regional implementation of an AI digital wound assessment tool, after securing additional co-funding from DIGITAL, Canada’s Global Innovation Cluster for digital technologies.
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July 22, 2026
TORONTO — The Ontario government is taking the next step toward creating a new province-wide Primary Care Medical Record system by launching a competitive procurement process, led by Supply Ontario, to establish a Vendor of Record arrangement.
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July 22, 2026
TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. - Evan Solomon (pictured), minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation, last week announced funding of $13.5 million for 63 Quebec organizations. These investments were granted under the Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII), which supports projects aimed at either developing and marketing AI solutions or integrating these solutions into SMEs’ operations and activities.
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July 22, 2026
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is promising to make prescription renewals easier through Virtual Care NB. Patients complained they faced delays obtaining routine medications following the launch of the new system last month.
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July 22, 2026
TORONTO - Canadian physicians lose nearly 20 million hours a year to paperwork. This well-known bottleneck drives burnout and drains capacity from an already strained health system. A new report from AI Care Partner Heidi shows what happens when that burden is lifted.
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July 22, 2026
MONTREAL and TORONTO - Brain Canada and the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI, powered by Baycrest), two leading national organizations driving the advancement and real-world application of brain health research, are partnering to launch a new funding opportunity designed to speed up the translation of proven research into products that improve older Canadians’ brain health and quality of life.
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July 22, 2026
MONTREAL - MEDTEQ+ and AGE-WELL, two major players in Canada’s AgeTech ecosystem, announce the launch of a new cohort of 17 collaborative projects focused on technologies designed to improve the quality of life of older adults and caregivers, supported through the envisAGE initiative.
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July 22, 2026
GALWAY, Ireland - Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, is presenting an early look at its next-generation compute platform for the operating room. Touch Surgery Aide - an AI-native surgical computing platform that powers the Touch Surgery ecosystem - enables real-time artificial intelligence during procedures. Touch Surgery Aide will be shared at the Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS) 2026 Annual Meeting in Florida, July 23-26.
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