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Richard Alvarez to leave post as Infoway chief

March 5, 2014

Richard Alvarez

TORONTO – After 10 years at the helm, Richard Alvarez (pictured) announced that he will step down from his role as President and CEO on August 1, 2014. Chair of the Infoway board of directors, Graham Scott, said: “Richard has been an extraordinary CEO for Infoway over the last decade. His leadership has shaped its strong culture, built collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the country, and achieved important results for Canadians.” Read More

Handwashing monitoring solution comes to Canada

March 5, 2014

Heather McLarney

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Deb Group announced that it will introduce its DebMed GMS (Group Monitoring System) into Canada, starting in May. The system can monitor the use of soap and sanitizer in a ward or work environment, including at the point-of-care, and report on compliance rates in real-time. Read More

Six GTA hospitals collaborate, showcase advances

February 19, 2014

TORONTO – After banding together late last year to share and promote their in-house innovations, six Toronto-area hospitals demonstrated the initiatives in January at an exposition, called InnovationEX, which attracted the provincial health minister, Deb Matthews (pictured, on right), as well as a crowd of participants. Read More

CHU Sainte-Justine, HEC Montreal to hold Hackathon

February 19, 2014

Luc Sirois

MONTREAL – Hacking Health will hold an event on February 21-23 at CHU Sainte-Justine, in which doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals and health system administrators, will collaborate with computer scientists, technologists, programmers and designers in the creation of digital solutions to improve the health of mothers and their children in Quebec and the rest of the world. Read More

CAR slams recent report, supports use of mammograms

February 19, 2014

OTTAWA – Women should continue to seek breast cancer screening using mammography, a form of x-ray of the breast, says Dr. Jacques Lévesque (pictured), president of the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR), the national association representing radiologists in Canada. Read More

Infoway launches contest for public health organizations

February 19, 2014

TORONTO – Building on the success of previous ImagineNation Challenges, Canada Health Infoway is pleased to announce the Public Health Social Media Challenge. The new Challenge seeks to inspire public health organizations to use social media initiatives in creative and innovative ways. Read More

Kallo wins $200 million contract in West Africa

February 19, 2014

TORONTO – Dell and Kallo Inc., a healthcare solutions provider, announced that Dell will design and build the IT infrastructure for Kallo’s healthcare delivery platform. This includes a state-of-the-art Global Response Centre in Canada, Clinical Command Centres in a number of strategic locations around the world and mobile clinics in rural communities. Read More

New solutions to be found at Ontario’s HIMSS booth

February 18, 2014

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Ontario government is co-hosting a booth with up-and-coming Ontario healthcare technology providers at this year’s HIMSS conference, which will be held in Orlando from Feb 23-27. Over 30,000 attendees are expected at the gathering, one of the world’s largest meetings of healthcare information users and providers. We provide details about the companies exhibiting with the Ontario government this year. Read More

Bilingual Montfort Hospital migrates to Meditech 6.0

February 18, 2014

OTTAWA – Summit Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare system integration and workflow automation technologies, recently announced an expanded partnership with Hôpital Montfort, a member of the Champlain Association of Meditech Partners (CHAMP) organization. Read More