October 30, 2026
An odd thing happened at the AI in Hospitals Conference, held in Toronto the last week of September. There were the expected presentations of advances in AI in healthcare, and management advice for handling its surging presence. Read More
October 30, 2026
VANCOUVER – In a three-month BC Ministry of Health-supported pilot that tested D2Type, a platform for prediabetics and patients with type 2 diabetes, participants with type 2 diabetes showed improvements in glycemic control, weight and lifestyle behaviours. Mean HbA1c fell by 0.9 percentage points, and half lost at least five percent of their body weight. Read More
October 30, 2026
In the operating room, medications move quickly. Anesthesia providers need medications immediately. Multiple clinicians may need to access the same inventory during a procedure. For pharmacy teams, keeping track of what was used, what remains, and what needs to be replaced has traditionally relied on manual barcode scanning and drug reconciliation after each procedure. Read More
October 30, 2026
BRAMPTON, ONT. – Medtronic Canada announced Health Canada license of the Affera™ Integrated Mapping System and Affera Ablation System with Sphere-9™ Catheter, 1. Read More
October 30, 2026
This is the first article in a monthly series on Canadian AI Healthcare Super Users: people inside health organizations who build with AI rather than wait for it. Each piece looks at one person’s stack and the agents they have built. We start with Stewart McKendry, director of AI at Amplify Care, a not-for-profit digital health organization. Most health organizations have Microsoft Copilot because they already run on Microsoft 365. I asked Stewart what it takes to make it useful. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. (W.F.) Read More
October 30, 2026
Artificial intelligence may dominate conversations about the future of healthcare, but supply chain leaders are increasingly recognizing that AI is only as valuable as the information that feeds it. In Canada’s healthcare sector, where product shortages, rising costs and operational pressures continue to challenge providers, high-quality data is becoming a strategic asset. Read More
October 30, 2026
BridgeHead Software, a UK-based healthcare data management company with an established Canadian presence supporting Meditech hospitals, is expanding its offering in Canada with its HealthStore® Clinical Data Repository. HealthStore consolidates patient and clinical information across multiple healthcare systems and makes it available to clinicians and applications, often through the EHR. Use cases include application retirement, Enterprise Imaging, interoperability and authorized secondary use of clinical data.
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October 30, 2026
In 2024, Michigan Medicine, an academic medical centre in Ann Arbor, Michigan, went live with the Sectra module for digital pathology, joining the institution’s previously deployed Sectra enterprise imaging solution, dramatically reimagining the pathology workflow. Also under way is a planned transition to Sectra One Cloud early next year. Read More
October 30, 2026
TORONTO – To improve collaboration between Mount Sinai Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and paediatric specialists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the two organizations implemented a secure communication workflow by partnering with Hypercare. Read More
October 30, 2026
We sat down with Dr. Lorne Rothman, Principal, Data Sciences, Canada Healthcare Lead for SAS, to peel through the second annual Data and AI Impact Report: The New Economics of Trust through a healthcare lens. Read More