August 31, 2023
TORONTO – The robots have come, and with them, the age of innovation has fully arrived at the Sprott Department of Surgery at UHN. Within the span of a few weeks, multiple North American and Canadian “firsts” were successfully conducted. Patients who would normally have lengthier surgeries, longer and more painful recoveries, are now going home with minimal scars and fewer days in hospital. Read More
August 31, 2023
MARKHAM, ONT. – Oak Valley Health, consisting of Markham Stouffville Hospital and Uxbridge Hospital, has been testing a new Early Warning System (EWS) that predicts when in-patients are in declining health and may suffer a catastrophic episode – such as cardiac arrest. Read More
August 31, 2023
NEW YORK – Amazon announced the launch of its AWS HealthScribe at a company summit here in July. It introduced an AI-powered system that’s designed to save hours of time for physicians by automatically listening to encounters with patients and turning out full transcripts or summaries containing the most meaningful data. Read More
August 31, 2023
SURREY, B.C. – Fraser Health has embarked on a large-scale program to modernize its electronic technology and the way it delivers care. The core technology being used is MEDITECH’s Expanse platform. All of the additional solutions being used will feed into Expanse, giving clinicians and administrators a single view of the patient experience across the giant region. Read More
August 31, 2023
Nova Scotia has upgraded its picture archiving and communication system (PACS) across 40 locations, modernizing the hardware and software and providing the latest innovations in digital storage of medical imaging. Read More
August 31, 2023
Reaching 40 million in population calls for a celebration in Canada! With nearly one out of five Canadians being at least 65 years of age as of July 2022, the need to have choices for quality aging has become even more important. Read More
August 31, 2023
“Finally, technology that works for me and not me for it!” is Dr Devan Reddy’s first thought when asked about Tali, an AI Assistant focused on helping physicians with their administrative tasks and documentation. Read More
July 5, 2023
CHICAGO – The keynote panel discussion about ChatGPT at HIMSS in April could easily have been titled, “Generative AI, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Read More
July 5, 2023
MONTREAL – The McGill University Health Centre, along with the Royal Victoria Hospital, have deployed a real-time care coordination platform called Stenoa (https://stenoa.com) that quickly pulls together the team members needed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory when a patient presents with a heart attack. Read More
July 5, 2023
What used to be a time-consuming, manual process of hunting for information from several hospital systems, talking to different departments and at times physically counting staff to determine bed availability across Providence Health Care – which includes St. Paul’s Hospital, Mount Saint Joseph Hospital and Holy Family Hospital in Vancouver – will now happen with a single keystroke. Read More