May 1, 2026
How should innovation be done in healthcare? Speakers at the recent HIMSS conference in Las Vegas addressed this topic, repeatedly pointing out that other industries have surged ahead on productivity by applying technology, while healthcare efficiency hasn’t improved. In fact, in healthcare, technology often makes things worse. Read More
May 1, 2026
Erie Shores HealthCare’s Emergency Department in Leamington, Ontario, 50 kilometres southeast of Windsor, has reduced the average time until initial physician assessment (PIA) by more than 40 percent – from 7.7 hours to 4.5 hours – thanks to innovative technology from Ontario-based SiMLQ. Read More
May 1, 2026
LAS VEGAS – At a HIMSS session on how hospitals are deploying real-world AI solutions, Evan Lyons, executive vice president and chief information officer at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), described a major AI-driven platform that’s about to be rolled out at his organization in the next few months. Read More
May 1, 2026
ST. JOHN’S – Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services has been implementing a new approach to address missed appointments. NL Health Services partnered with patient engagement specialists, TxtSquad, to introduce two-way patient communication by text – paired with AI voice outreach to land-line phones – to drive no-shows down to the sub-four percent range. Read More
May 1, 2026
British Columbia’s Health Information Management (HIM) program is a lower mainland consolidated (LMC) service, supporting Providence Health Care, Provincial Health Services Authority, Fraser Health, and Vancouver Coastal Health. Read More
May 1, 2026
Most health IT leaders know the picture. Everett Rogers drew it in 1962. A bell curve. Innovators at the left, then early adopters, early and late majority, laggards at the right. Technology diffuses slowly, over years. Resistance is expected. Change is managed. Read More
May 1, 2026
Canada’s Connected Care for Canadians Act (Bill S5) reinforces expectations for interoperability and vendor alignment, but success will be in the operational details: standardized definitions and consent models people can follow, role-based access that is defensible under privacy law, data stewardship across organizations, and governance that can survive turnover. Read More
May 1, 2026
Healthcare systems are often described as capacity constrained. Demand continues to rise, workforce shortages persist, and fiscal pressures limit the ability to scale resources at the pace required to keep up with demand. The conclusion appears straightforward: the system needs more. Read More
May 1, 2026
A team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) developed Opal into a well-known patient information platform that was used by thousands of patients. Read More
May 1, 2026
Bill S-5 the Connected Care for Canadians Act (CCA), is a long overdue and necessary development. This bill along with Canada Health Infoway’s 2023 Shared Pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap (Roadmap) need to be further refined, detailed and brought up to date. Digital health connectivity is certainly the main goal, but we need to innovate how we do it. There are strategies available to us today that were not available or mature just a few years ago. Read More