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April 14, 2014
In 2012, Dr. Joshua Landy, a busy intensive care specialist at Scarborough General Hospital in Toronto, was catching up with two friends over dinner. Today, the three are cofounders of Figure 1 Inc., a start-up that recently raised $2 million in seed funding to grow its healthcare photo sharing app. Read More
April 14, 2014
Cornwall Community Hospital, in Cornwall, Ont., has become one of the first hospitals in Canada to implement a brand-new wireless technology that runs as fast as 2.6 gigabits-per-second – as rapidly as a high-speed wired system. Read More
April 14, 2014
It was hard to choose between the highs and the lows at the Ontario Long-Term Care Association’s 5th Annual Research Day – high-tech and low-tech innovation, that is. Read More
April 14, 2014
In its ongoing quest to improve patient care and provide top-of-the-line surgical services, the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) was the first hospital in Quebec and only the third in Canada to join the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), in 2009. Soon after, the JGH was again first in Quebec to implement the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist. Read More
April 14, 2014
ORLANDO, FLA. – Healthcare used to be called the slowest industry to adopt new technologies, espe- cially those of the electronic variety. Now, however, the sector is something of a Speedy Gonzalez, and is racing ahead of others – thanks to venture capitalists and invest- ment bankers, the folks who are financing many of the innovations. Read More
March 6, 2014
CALGARY – To improve the coordination of patient-care among general practitioners, radiologists, surgeons and other specialists, the Health Quality Council of Alberta is calling for greater investment in electronic communications networks. Read More
March 6, 2014
At some point last fall Felister Mburu understood that her typical workday as a PSW with VHA Home Healthcare, in Toronto, would change dramatically. Mburu works in the East York region, which was part of a pilot project that saw the company deploy GoldCare MobilityPlus on 20 BlackBerry 10 devices. Read More
March 6, 2014
“Let me know if there is anything I can do.” Delivering the news of a devastating diagnosis to friends and family usually elicits that heartfelt response, along with the assumption there is little they really can do. Caring for a family member facing a serious illness or a lifelong disability can be daunting and isolating. Vancouver-based Tyze, which has a cloud-based personal healthcare networking platform that enables families to build personal communities of care, is on a mission to change that. Read More
March 6, 2014
The three-day Hacking Health Toronto event held at the city’s MaRS Centre late last fall sounded more to the uninitiated like a continuing medical education course for pulmonary specialists than a high-energy collaborative for aspiring medtech innovators – all out to heal the healthcare system’s many ills – matched up with seasoned, willing-to-help mentors. Read More
February 1, 2014
CHICAGO – Some of the most interesting and significant product announcements at the recent RSNA conference, held in December, weren’t about the traditional imaging modalities, like CT and MRI. Instead, they involved eye-popping improvements in process management and analytics. Read More