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Ottawa to invest $22.7 million in DI innovation

March 3, 2023


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TORONTO – INOVAIT and the Government of Canada have announced a major investment in the field of image-guided therapy, with up to $22.7 million in contributions committed to 14 commercialization-focused R&D projects under INOVAIT’s Focus Fund program. Read More

NS improves care by deploying Command Centres

By Norm Tollinsky

March 3, 2023


The Nova Scotia Health Authority is implementing GE Healthcare’s Command Centre Software Platform at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (QEII) and hospitals across the province. The technology will provide healthcare administrators and clinicians with a real-time view of capacity utilization, problem spots, and opportunities for process improvements. Read More

Panel identifies threats from faxes, snooping, cyber-attacks

By Jerry Zeidenberg

March 3, 2023


Ontario intends to eliminate 80 percent of the faxing done in the healthcare system over the next five years, says Michael Hillmer, ADM, Digital and Analytics Strategy Division, Ministry of Health. That level of faxing is made up of clinicians using the error-prone technology for prescriptions, referrals, lab and diagnostic imaging orders. Read More

Bringing portable X-ray imaging to Canada’s remote communities

By Anne Hixon

March 3, 2023


When it comes to accessing healthcare services, Indigenous peoples are considered the most marginalized in Canada, with the poorest health outcomes and the most barriers. One example, a joint study released last year by the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, demonstrated that decades of poor health outcomes have resulted in a life expectancy gap of 11 years between status First Nations people and all other Manitobans. Shockingly, the 11-year gap is growing. Read More

In Ontario, real steps are being taken to reach EHR interoperability

By Dianne Daniel

March 3, 2023


Thanks to a series of innovative collaborations under way in Ontario, health records are starting to follow patients as they transition between hospitals – without the need to fax. It’s a lesson in interoperability that requires vendors, users and governments working together at multiple levels. The first goal is to achieve data sharing between hospitals that are using the same electronic health record; the next step is to facilitate widespread data sharing between the three leading vendor platforms – Epic, MEDITECH and Cerner – as well as between each health record and PointClickCare, the long-term care record widely used in the province. Read More

Care-givers need improved technology to reduce stress in the LTC sector

By Dr. Sunny Malhotra

March 3, 2023


As the population continues to age, an exodus of staff within elderly care during the pandemic has intensified pre-existing problems with retaining and growing the care workforce. By 2030, there will be 1.2 billion seniors over the age of 60 worldwide, making this one of the largest challenges facing our care system. Read More

Siddhartha Mukherjee points to problems in Deep Learning

By Jerry Zeidenberg

February 7, 2023


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During his keynote address at the recent RSNA conference in Chicago, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee – an oncologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of all Maladies – identified artificial intelligence as a key development for medicine. However, he also emphasized that doctors don’t quite trust AI, and that there’s a fair degree of skepticism about it. Read More

Eastern Ontario hospitals up-and-running on Epic system

By Norm Tollinsky

February 7, 2023


Three Eastern Ontario community hospitals went live with the Epic health information system in November, joining the Atlas Alliance, a group of healthcare organizations all using Epic. Read More

Osler’s iHuddle app facilitates team communication, collaboration

February 7, 2023


BRAMPTON, ONT. – Knowledge is power, and for managers and frontline healthcare workers, having access to real-time data at their fingertips can make all the difference in terms of sustaining and enhancing quality, patient safety and access to care. That was just one of the key drivers behind the development of William Osler Health System’s award-winning iHuddle Boards – a global leading practice as recognized by the Health Standards Organization (HSO) and Accreditation Canada. Read More

DI: How will radiology change five years from now?

By Jerry Zeidenberg

February 7, 2023


What will radiology look like five years from now? Radiologists from across the United States and Canada weighed in on this topic at the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago last November. While it’s difficult to paint an exact picture of the future, the DI experts seemed to have a good sense of what will happen – in broad strokes. Read More

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