Humber River Hospital, in Toronto, has launched the second phase of its Command Centre. The Wall of Analytics displays real-time feeds from various parts of the hospital, alerting staff to the declining condition of patients and enabling caregivers to take quick action. In this way, and with protocols for responding to the alerts, the hospital intends to improve patient safety and health outcomes. It’s a first-in-the-world centre, created in partnership with GE Healthcare, using analytics and machine learning technologies.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In 2017, TELUS built on an existing relationship with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) by providing crucial network and security management services to the Hospital.
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ST. JOHN’S, NL – The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is investing $3.8 million in a Health Data Lab that’s focusing on analytics and artificial intelligence to improve healthcare delivery. The project may very well become the most advanced of its sort in Canada, as it brings near real-time data flows from across the jurisdiction into a secure, consolidated repository.
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RICHMOND HILL, ONT. – In November, Mackenzie Health announced that it had become the first acute-care hospital in Canada to achieve Stage 7 on the HIMSS EMRAM scale. Stage 7 is the highest rung on a ladder that measures end-user adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) functions.
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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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