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Dictating directly into the electronic patient record

September 27, 2018


SickKids MModal

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. Read More

Video cameras and AI help manage aggressive patients

By Jerry Zeidenberg

August 30, 2018


West Park Healthcare innovation

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. Read More

Toronto hospitals advance scope of imaging with PET/MR

By Jerry Zeidenberg

July 3, 2018


UHN PET-MR

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. Read More

Sunnybrook creates its own advanced EHR

By Jerry Zeidenberg

May 1, 2018


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. Read More

Universities across Canada foster the healthcare innovation

By Dianne Daniel

March 29, 2018


TENZR

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. Read More

New service transforms charting in Saskatchewan

By Dianne Daniel

March 1, 2018


MetricAid

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. Read More

Humber River Hospital opens futuristic command centre

By Jerry Zeidenberg

January 31, 2018


HRH command centre

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. Read More

Heart centre will pump $100 million into new solutions

By Jerry Zeidenberg

October 30, 2017


Peter Munk Cardiac Centre

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. Read More

Award-winning idea aims to improve surgeries

October 2, 2017


ForceFilm

TORONTO – Minimally invasive surgery has revolutionized the practice of medicine in recent years, as it dramatically reduces the size of incisions needed during operations and decreases the need for blood transfusions. It also reduces infection rates and recovery times. Read More

Kingston’s hybrid cardiac ablation procedure first in Canada

August 30, 2017


KHSC cardiac ablation

KINGSTON, ONT. – In a Canadian first, a hybrid cardiac ablation procedure has been successfully completed at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). The procedure is a revolutionary treatment for patients who suffer from atrial fibrillation – the most common type of irregular heart rhythm. Read More

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