August 30, 2018
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
August 30, 2018
The expansion of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute gives the facility some of the most advanced surgical technology available, but a focus on a state-of-the-art working environment is almost as important. Inaugurated in the Spring, the Life Support Tower – “The Tower,” to its staff – marks the completion of Phase 3 of the planned hospital improvement project, says Dr. Tim Zakutney, Vice-President, Medical Equipment and Chief Medical Technology Officer. Read More
August 30, 2018
CORNWALL, ONT. – Cornwall Community Hospital recently stepped up to Stage 6 on the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM ladder. The adoption of a leading-edge Electronic Health Record (EHR) has provided significant clinical and operational benefits. Read More
August 30, 2018
VANCOUVER – Waiting for an in-person visit with a specialist can delay a patient’s treatment, especially if a confirmation of the referring physician’s initial treatment plan is all that’s required. Waiting to see a specialist for a non-urgent case can also cause unnecessary stress for a patient. Read More
August 30, 2018
With today’s residents requiring more support of their daily activities, and providers facing funding and resource limitations, long-term care in Ontario is on the brink of profound change. Union Villa, a highly regarded long-term care home based in Markham, Ont., is leading the charge. Read More
July 3, 2018
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
July 3, 2018
WATERLOO, ONT. – The peopleCare Inc. group of nursing homes and retirement communities, in southern Ontario, is putting medication reconciliation back into the hands of the expert – the pharmacist. In alliance with Hogan Pharmacy Partners Ltd, the organization has successfully transitioned from nurse-led paper reconciliation to pharmacist-led, digital reconciliation. Read More
July 3, 2018
TORONTO – You know that technology is moving quickly when a robot takes the conference stage as the keynote speaker. Sophia, a humanoid robot with realistic facial features and the ability to respond to language and gestures, was the luncheon speaker at the recent OCE Discovery Conference in Toronto. Her delivery may have been a little machine-like, but she spoke with a nice sense of humour. That alone seemed to bring her to life. Sophia, who is visiting Canada from her home in Hong Kong, told the crowd that she “finds Canadians to be very polite, eh?” Read More
July 3, 2018
TORONTO – Dr. John Reeves opened the HealthBot 2018 conference with a question: How many in the audience had been at HealthBot 2017? No one raised a hand. “That’s because it didn’t exist,” Reeves chuckled. But interest in chatbots – software that simulates human conversation through the use of AI technologies like natural language processing, big data management and pattern recognition – is growing rapidly. Read More
July 3, 2018
LONDON, ONT. – The latest wave in breast imaging technology has arrived at St. Joseph’s Health Care London and is making a significant difference in precision and confidence in diagnosing or ruling out breast cancer. Contrast-enhanced mammography and tomosynthesis (three-dimensional mammography), are both now in use by St. Joseph’s Breast Care Program. Read More