OTTAWA – Physicians and physicists at The Ottawa Hospital are preparing to use 3-D virtual reality technology in the operating room to assist with surgical implants for patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at the hospital are at the forefront of developing virtual reality technology for medical purposes, and they’ve now teamed up with neurosurgeons to improve the placement of devices during delicate brain procedures. Wearing virtual reality goggles, neurosurgeon Dr. Adam Sachs can view an accurate, computer-generated 3-D image of a patient’s brain with Parkinson’s disease, created using the patient’s own MRIs. The patients’ brain activity, recorded from microelectrodes, can also be visualized in this virtual world.
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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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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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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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