April 1, 2026
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Health needs to follow procurement rules to ensure a competitive, fair, and transparent process results in best value for taxpayers’ money, said auditor general Kim Adair (pictured).
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April 1, 2026
TORONTO - University Health Network is pleased to announce a $5-million philanthropic gift from BMO to support the construction of a new Surgical Tower at UHN’s Toronto Western Hospital and the expansion of PMATCH, an AI-powered precision oncology initiative at UHN’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.
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April 1, 2026
HAWKESBURY, Ont. - Hawkesbury and District General Hospital (HGH) reached an important milestone on Tuesday with the successful completion of its first procedure using the VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution by Johnson & Johnson, marking a significant step forward in surgical innovation at the organization.
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April 1, 2026
TORONTO - Six hospitals from the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) are partnering with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, through its Artificial Intelligence program, SKAI, to tackle some of the biggest challenges in paediatric healthcare using AI.
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April 1, 2026
TORONTO - CHAH AI Care and Quoted Tech have announced a strategic partnership to build and deploy Comprehensive Healthcare at Home (CHAH) Support Hubs, among the first Canadian-made AI-powered home healthcare solutions purpose-built to bring continuous, proactive monitoring to seniors and medically complex patients living at home.
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April 1, 2026
WATERLOO and HAMILTON, Ont. – The National Institutes of Health Informatics and McMaster University Continuing Education are offering new micro-courses for healthcare professionals, beginning spring 2026. Courses include “Leadership in Health Care,” and “Effective Dashboards for Health Care.”
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March 25, 2026
TORONTO - Ontario announced it will produce a new province-wide Primary Care Medical Record system that will integrate patient records, reduce paperwork for doctors and improve the quality of care received by patients. It’s part of Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan, for which the province will raise overall funding to a total of $3.4 billion between 2025 and 2029.
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March 25, 2026
MONTREAL - CIUSSS West-Central Montreal is introducing a new tool developed as part of the Connected Health Record (CHR) - its healthcare innovation demonstration project - made possible thanks to the philanthropic support of the Jewish General Hospital Foundation.
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March 25, 2026
TORONTO - Across Canada, patient flow is commonly framed as an operational challenge: bed capacity, emergency department overcrowding, alternate level of care patients occupying acute beds and system-wide pressure. These measures matter, but they are symptoms, not causes, and they only tell part of the story.
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March 25, 2026
TORONTO - A new study led by researchers at UHN’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research shows that data from a consumer smartwatch can detect early signs of worsening heart failure — days to weeks before unplanned medical care is needed.
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