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July 2, 2019
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. Read More
July 2, 2019
HAMILTON, ONT. – St. Joseph’s Health System (SJHS) is using video visits to connect clinicians with discharged surgical patients at home. The video-based care builds on St. Joseph’s use of one phone-number access to an integrated care team, around the clock, for discharged patients and provides another dimension of support in their homes. Read More
July 2, 2019
RICHMOND HILL, ONT. – Mackenzie Health is investing in “smart” interactive bedside systems for patient rooms at its new hospital, called Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital. Currently under construction, the 1.2-million square foot hospital is scheduled to open in late 2020. Read More
July 2, 2019
As Canadian life expectancy rises, so does the chance that older adults will struggle with isolation – a risk factor for ill health. It’s a problem that innovator Charles de Vilmorin knows well. For years he watched his grandmother, who lived with Alzheimer’s, spend her days alone in her nursing home room, bored and lonely. Read More
May 22, 2019
SIOUX LOOKOUT, ONT. – As the Lab Manager for Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre (SLMHC), Brenda Voth understands the pressure to deliver timely and decisive lab results, just one of the many demands of an acute care hospital lab. Read More
May 1, 2019
ORLANDO, FLA. – It drives Peter Bak nuts when hospitals tout their HIMSS Analytics EMRAM scores and make reaching Stage 6 or 7 the object of their I.T. strategies. Read More
April 30, 2019
The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), in partnership with Mary Furlong & Associates, held its first-ever What’s Next Canada Conference in March, bringing together experts and thought-leaders in aging and brain health to network and discuss current innovations in the care of seniors. Read More
April 29, 2019
When a zero-day virus hit Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Ontario, earlier this year, HSN and 21 hospitals put their main electronic medical records on downtime to avoid further contamination. No data was corrupted and there was no privacy breach, but it did lead to a slowdown in a number of departments until the issue was resolved four days later. Read More
April 29, 2019
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. Read More
April 29, 2019
TORONTO – Demand for information from users inside hospitals – and from partners and patients logging into portals outside the facilities – is “becoming insatiable”, as one healthcare executive at Microsoft’s recent “Future Now” conference put it. Read More