Dr. Thomas Lindsay, a vascular surgeon at the University Health Network’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, demonstrates how a long graft can be inserted into the aorta of a patient, with branches for the kidneys. The innovative, team-based procedure is performed using minimally invasive methods, all through a small incision rather than open surgery. It reduces trauma to the patient and speeds up recovery times.Read More
TORONTO – The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has integrated a new version of M*Modal’s dictation solution, equipped with high-accuracy speech recognition, with its newly installed Epic patient record system.
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TORONTO – West Park Healthcare Centre, a 470-bed rehab and complex care facility, is working with a private-sector partner to develop an “intelligent vision” system that can immediately spot aggressive behaviour in patients by using autonomously monitored video camera feeds and machine learning.
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A University of Toronto student and his teammate from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology have won a global award at the “Olympics of technology,” bringing home the 2018 Imagine Cup trophy for the smartARM, a prosthetic robotic hand. Samin Khan, an undergraduate student in cognitive and computer science at U of T, and Hamayal Choudhry, a UOIT mechatronics engineering student, were the winning team in Microsoft’s 16th annual innovation competition, which saw more than 40,000 student competitors register and 49 teams qualify for the Imagine Cup World Finals in Seattle, July 23-25. The team wins a mentoring session with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, US$85,000 in cash and a $50,000 Microsoft Azure grant to continue developing smartARM.
TORONTO – A PET/MR scanner, installed in the basement of the Toronto General Hospital, is a rare imaging commodity in Canada – there are only three other machines of this sort that are operational across the country. Even though the system in Toronto is for experimental purposes, it has already started to provide astounding clinical benefits.
In trials with patients, the PET/MR scanner has been able to find very small tumours, which flash on the display screen like hotspots.
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TORONTO – While other hospitals have been implementing commercial electronic health record systems, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has created its own health information system – called SunnyCare. It has done this over the past few years, tying together best-of-breed components from the private sector and adding its own, home-grown software to create a solution like nothing else available in Canada.
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In ancient Roman mythology, the god Janus is depicted as having two faces, one looking forward to the future and one looking back to the past. As the legend goes, he was well suited to presiding over beginnings and periods of transitions.
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Emergency physicians in Saskatoon, as well as medical practitioners across the province, are getting used to speaking into microphones, and it’s changing the way they work and care for patients.
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TORONTO – Humber River Hospital announced the opening of its Star Trek-like Command Centre with an auditorium full of visiting luminaries in attendance – including GE’s CEO John Flannery, two Ontario government cabinet ministers, and doctors and administrators from 13 U.S. hospitals who came to learn about the AI-powered centre.
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TORONTO – The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre will use a $100 million gift to create new technologies to treat heart disease– helping it to reinvent the future of cardiac care and simultaneously turn it into one of the top heart hospitals in the world.
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