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
March 30, 2020
OTTAWA – The sluggish growth of virtual care in Canada hasn’t been caused by a lack of technology – there are plenty of solutions available, all of them capable of connecting clinicians with patients via smartphones and computers. Read More
February 27, 2020
MONTREAL – CAE, a Montreal-based provider of aviation and healthcare training systems, is donating $500,000 to the McGill University Health Centre’s new Interprofessional Skills & Simulation Network. The contribution includes state-of-the-art training simulation equipment and curriculum systems. Read More
January 29, 2020
LONDON, ONT. – Hospitals in London, Ont. have partnered with Siemens Healthineers to refresh and modernize the city’s stock of MRIs and angiography devices. In December, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London announced the signing of a $42 million deal for six new MRI machines and eight new angio suites. Read More
October 30, 2019
TORONTO – Humber River Hospital has launched the world’s first clinical analytic applications in a hospital Command Centre. The new solutions use real-time clinical data, early warning algorithms and AI to identify issues and raise the quality of care. The hospital worked in partnership with GE Healthcare to develop the Command Centre and its new capabilities. Read More
October 1, 2019
September 27, 2019
HAMILTON, ONT. – A McMaster University spin-out company, called VoxNeuro, has produced technology that allows clinicians to precisely gauge the level of brain activity in persons who have suffered head injuries – such as concussions – or those who have experienced a cognitive decline, including the elderly. Read More
August 28, 2019
TORONTO – Physicians collect an enormous amount of data about patients, and they log much of it into their EMRs each day. Nevertheless, doctors may sometimes forget to record certain items – such as whether a patient is a smoker or is due for diabetes screening. Read More
July 2, 2019
TORONTO – Sunnybrook Health Sciences aims to shake up the Health Information Systems (HIS) market through a new partnership with Evident, a unit of Computer Programs and Systems Inc. (CPSI) of Mobile, Ala. Sunnybrook will be joining its clinical workflow system – called SunnyCare – with Evident’s Thrive platform, including a constellation of solutions for lab, pharmacy, imaging and more. Read More
April 29, 2019
Don Tapscott is in. At a recent pitch session for innovation projects at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) – modeled after popular CBC TV series Dragon’s Den, where entrepreneurs compete for investment cash from financiers – Tapscott the Dragon offered up his own cash for one proposal. Read More