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
March 31, 2026
Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital (JGH) – part of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, the region’s Integrated Health and Social Services network – continues to advance its Hospital@Home program. As a key element of the CIUSSS’s Care Everywhere vision, the JGH now operates a 20-bed “virtual hospital,” delivering inpatient-level treatment to users in their own homes with the same high standard of care as on site. Read More
March 31, 2026
The University of Ottawa has launched a new research institute to accelerate the development and adoption of AI-powered solutions in the healthcare system. The Ottawa Medical Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, or OMARI, is housed in the university’s Faculty of Medicine and has close ties with the city’s six hospitals and their research institutes. Read More
March 31, 2026
TORONTO – Neurosurgeons at St. Michael’s Hospital are among the first in Canada to deploy the Hyperfine Swoop® MR scanner to check on the quality of brain surgeries – right after the procedures and while still in the surgical suite. Read More
March 31, 2026
The commercialization of Medly, a universally acclaimed remote monitoring technology for heart failure patients developed by Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN), has been entrusted to Vitall Intelligence Inc., a member of the Blyth Group of companies headed by serial entrepreneur Don Simmonds. Read More