May 1, 2025
Twenty students selected to join the charter class at Memorial University's regional medical school campus located at the University of Prince Edward Island's (UPEI) new Faculty of Medicine and Interprofessional Health Education Facility in August will be able to take advantage of an amazing collection of advanced medical learning technologies. Read More
May 1, 2025
OTTAWA – For researchers leading clinical trials, recruiting enough participants can be a challenge. When recruitment targets for clinical trials are not met, due to cuts in funding, studies being shut down, or difficulty finding eligible patients, the trial can be abandoned altogether or redesigned to accommodate the smaller data sets, resulting in less impactful conclusions than originally intended. Read More
May 1, 2025
Kemptville District Hospital (KDH), a 40-bed, acute-care facility 50 kilometres south of Ottawa, has joined a growing list of hospitals opting for a prefabricated modular addition to house a new CT or MRI scanner. Read More
May 1, 2025
LAS VEGAS – Two forward-thinking organizations described how they’re integrating genomic data into their MEDITECH electronic health records during the HIMSS conference in March. Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, based in Whitby, Ontario, near Toronto, and Frederick Health, located outside Baltimore, Maryland, have both made strides in capturing and using personalized data for clinical decision support. Read More
May 1, 2025
Large-scale healthcare transformations are complex endeavours. Success depends not just on technology but on aligning people and processes for long-term impact. Without this alignment, even the most sophisticated digital solutions can fail to deliver their intended impact. Read More
May 1, 2025
Economist Impact, the business intelligence arm of the Economist magazine, recently conducted an international study of productivity in the public sector, including healthcare. Canadian organizations are generously represented, with half of the Canadian respondents coming from the healthcare sector. Read More
May 1, 2025
Workday conducted a Toronto summit in April that advised healthcare executives about upcoming developments in AI, human resources and enterprise resource planning systems. CTO Kalan Comba kicked off the event, noting that Workday is now an $8.4 billion company that supports 70 million active workers around the world. “We understand workers,” he observed. Read More
May 1, 2025
Every day, millions of nurses and other frontline healthcare professionals work long, tireless hours serving both the basic and complex needs of multiple patients. It’s a mentally, physically and emotionally demanding job. It also requires a high level of specialized expertise to perform their duties calmly and efficiently in an otherwise bustling, unpredictable, and sometimes chaotic environment. Read More
March 31, 2025
The Samsung Medical Center, in Seoul, South Korea, is arguably the most advanced digital hospital in the world – it has earned four of the HIMSS Stage 7 designations, a unique honour. But the organization didn’t get there without blood, sweat, toil and tears. And a few mistakes. Read More
March 31, 2025
HAMILTON, ONT. – A team at Hamilton Health Sciences is leading the charge to devise a ‘universal translator’, a set of technologies that will allow the electronic records used by hospitals, doctors’ offices and other medical organizations to talk to each other more easily. Read More