June 29, 2021
VICTORIA, BC – British Columbia has rolled out its Hospital at Home pilot in three different communities – two at Island Health and one with Northern Health. The project is already demonstrating that acute-care patients can often be managed as effectively in their own homes as in hospitals. Read More
April 30, 2021
TORONTO – Three levels of government – federal, provincial, and municipal – have thrown their support behind Sanofi Pasteur in building an “end-to-end” influenza vaccine manufacturing facility in Toronto. Together, the partners will invest nearly $1 billion to get the site up and running, which is expected by 2027. Read More
March 29, 2021
Kingston, Ontario, a mid-sized city of 137,000 people almost halfway between Toronto and Montreal, is leveraging its research and academic infrastructure to emerge as Canada’s newest health technology hub. Read More
February 26, 2021
Telus’s Health for Good program has launched the latest of its specially equipped vans to provide medical services to the homeless and underserved, this time to the population of Toronto’s west end. The project relies not only on the hardware and software – the vans and technology – but on the care delivered by trained and socially sensitive medical professionals. Read More
January 28, 2021
In the 1950 Stanley Cup playoffs, then-22-year-old Gordie Howe mistimed a check and fell headfirst into the boards. Removed unconscious on a stretcher before a hushed crowd, he was rushed to hospital. With Howe’s life on the line, doctors determined that intracranial pressure from a brain bleed would kill him. At a medical imaging conference in Toronto last year, Howe’s son Murray, a radiologist, described how neurosurgeons determined where to drill to relieve the pressure: “They guessed.” Read More
October 29, 2020
TORONTO – To improve the ordering of diagnostic imaging exams, North York General Hospital has implemented one of Canada’s first “clinical decision support” systems that quickly shows referring physicians what the best options are for imaging their patients. Read More
September 30, 2020
HAMILTON, Ont. – Dr. Clinton Campbell envisions a future where pathologists work as information specialists in sophisticated computer labs with the world’s most current, relevant data at their fingertips. Instead of diagnosing disease one slide at a time under a microscope, there would be thousands of images to compare online. Read More
August 31, 2020
As COVID-19 amplifies the need for collaboration among healthcare providers, a unique partnership is creating a digital link between St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) and St. Joseph’s Villa in Hamilton, Ont., to enhance the health outcomes of older adults transferred between hospital and long-term care (LTC). Read More
June 30, 2020
HAMILTON, ONT. – Researchers and clinicians at Hamilton Health Sciences are leading a multi-hospital study to determine if the numbers of discharged surgical patients who return to hospital in the first 30 days after discharge – a critical period for recoveries – can be significantly reduced through the use of remote monitoring technology. Read More
May 1, 2020
VANCOUVER – Thrive Health has developed an app for tracking equipment, clinicians and staff in hospitals that’s now being used in 39 of British Columbia’s hospitals, across three health authorities. The COVID-19 Critical Care Resource Management app allows front-line personnel – from doctors and nurses to administrators – to rapidly locate gear such as gowns, gloves or ventilators on the spur of the moment. Read More