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September 27, 2019
HAMILTON, ONT. – A McMaster University spin-out company, called VoxNeuro, has produced technology that allows clinicians to precisely gauge the level of brain activity in persons who have suffered head injuries – such as concussions – or those who have experienced a cognitive decline, including the elderly. Read More
September 27, 2019
TORONTO – A system that improves safety and saves money is a home run for a hospital, and University Health Network’s Patient Tele-Monitoring Program has managed that feat. Read More
September 27, 2019
TORONTO – Venture capitalists and private investors offered free advice to medical tech entrepreneurs who gathered at the MaRS HealthKick conference in early April. The take-aways? Read More
September 27, 2019
We live in an app-ified world – and seniors’ care is no exception. Among the many seniors’ apps available on the market, some digitize or simplify tasks for a caregiver or health professional, while some allow older adults to access entirely new activities that can inform, entertain, or enrich their lives. Read More
August 30, 2019
There is so much talk about digital and virtual care but, when all is said and done, it’s all simply care. There is no longer a need for a distinction between physical and virtual care – today all care has a digital and/or virtual component. If you think about a car and traffic analogy for the healthcare sector, we’ve been on the highway all along, but today the car is different – it now contains enhancements like the GPS, blind spot alerts, lane departure warnings and very soon, some vehicles will be without drivers. Read More
August 28, 2019
TORONTO – Physicians collect an enormous amount of data about patients, and they log much of it into their EMRs each day. Nevertheless, doctors may sometimes forget to record certain items – such as whether a patient is a smoker or is due for diabetes screening. Read More
August 28, 2019
In recent years, Nova Scotia has built a province-wide, integrated system for storing and sharing electrocardiograph (ECG) results – the only jurisdiction in Canada to achieve this milestone. With ECG data available electronically, healthcare providers no longer have to wait for patient data to be entered or faxed. That’s meant the province’s cardiologists, along with other authorized clinicians, can access results anywhere, anytime – enabling them to make faster diagnoses. Read More
August 28, 2019
It was fall 2017, and Northern Health (NH) realized it had to make a change. That summer, hundreds of people had flooded into northern BC to escape wildfires in the Cariboo and Southern Interior regions of the province. Read More
August 28, 2019
If you’re seeing your family doctor to treat a rash, would you mention you recently lost your job? Is your doctor likely to ask? Is it even relevant? The more work that’s done in Canada to reduce health inequalities, the more we know that social determinants of health – including income security – have an important influence on outcomes. Yet, care providers don’t have a standardized way to collect this type of data and treat their patients accordingly. Read More
August 28, 2019
Sherbourne Health, a Canadian leader in proactive care for underserved communities, has recently expanded its Health Bus program to serve individuals experiencing homelessness or who are under-housed in downtown Toronto’s Moss Park neighbourhood. Read More