The Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO) held a webcast on Monday, November 26 on The Art of the Possible: Debunking Common Procurement Myths in Ontario’s Broader Public Sector. Stemming from CAHO’s reference guide titled, The Art of the Possible: A Quick Reference Guide to Ontario Broader Public Sector Procurement Myths, the expert panel members examine well-known barriers to innovation adoption in Ontario and strategies to address them. If you are involved in hospital procurement in Ontario, this webcast can be a valuable educational tool to help you confront barriers or misconceptions associated with the Broader Public Sector Procurement Directive. Additionally, if you are considering an innovation to pilot and/or adopt at your organization this webcast will also act as an informative tool.
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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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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