February 25, 2026
TORONTO - The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), powered by Baycrest, is awarding $2.6 million to 26 Canadian healthcare and community-based organizations across the country, enabling them to embed leading-edge brain health innovations into their operations with the goal of providing better care for older persons - including those living with dementia.
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February 18, 2026
MIRAMICHI, NB - The government of New Brunswick has released a strategy to develop a more modern, connected and patient-centred digital health system. The strategy includes expanding the “digital front door”, enabling individuals and families to access health records, book appointments and connect with care teams.
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February 18, 2026
TORONTO - Dennis Giokas (pictured) has joined Alifor as chief product officer. He will oversee Alifor’s further product development and solution partnerships, leveraging his background in scaling-up digital health and clinical systems. He will lead the team that’s defining functionality, priorities, integration strategies, and the product roadmap to guide further development and global rollout.
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February 18, 2026
OTTAWA - INOVAIT, Canada’s image-guided therapy and artificial intelligence network, presented the 2025/26 INOVAIT Awards at its annual meeting in Ottawa earlier this month. The INOVAIT Awards recognize industry and academic members of the INOVAIT Network who are developing breakthrough innovations in healthcare and spearheading economic development for Canada.
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February 18, 2026
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Indigenous leaders, city representatives, health system officials, police and security companies met at a roundtable discussion to talk about Indigenous safety and accountability in frontline public services, including contracted and privatized security operations.
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February 18, 2026
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Health is trucking boxes of Nova Scotians’ paper health records to Ontario to be digitized by a private company. A Nova Scotia Health employee said 900 boxes of records are to be trucked to Iron Mountain in Toronto to be scanned and converted to electronic form.
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February 18, 2026
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT - A feasibility study is under way to have an MRI machine installed at Yellowknife’s Stanton Territorial Hospital, health minister Lesa Semmler says. Without a machine in the territory, many in need of an MRI scan are sent to Alberta where the service is more widely available.
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February 18, 2026
FREDERICTON, NB - Margaret Melanson (pictured), CEO of Horizon Health Network, says New Brunswick hospitals are ‘past a crisis point’ with the number of alternate-level-of-care patients (ALC) occupying beds while they wait for a long-term care placement. According to a report by CTV News, about 40 per cent of hospital beds across Horizon Health are used by ALC patients.
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February 18, 2026
OTTAWA – Canada Health Infoway announced that PrescribeIT, its program for e-prescribing among physicians and pharmacists, will be shut down as of May 29. It was established to support safer, more efficient prescribing, but it didn’t achieve the scale or a successful funding formula required for long-term sustainability.
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February 11, 2026
LEAMINGTON, Ont. - The five Ontario hospitals supported by Transform Shared Service Organization (TSSO) have migrated their Oracle electronic health record system to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). With OCI, the hospitals can enhance the experience for patients and clinicians, scale efficiently, and easily adopt new AI-powered technologies, such as a recently launched pilot of Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent.
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