September 3, 2024
TORONTO – Ontario’s Health811 service, which evolved from the province’s traditional, nurse-led telephone service, Telehealth Ontario, has rapidly expanded its range of capabilities since launching in 2022. It continues to offer access to nurses via telephone, but it’s now also providing a host of computer and smartphone-based options, including chat and video. Read More
September 3, 2024
Robert Drover, director of information technology at Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, no longer loses sleep over having to compete for capital every five years to replace the health authority’s data storage infrastructure – not since acquiring Pure Storage’s Evergreen/One storage as-a-service. Read More
September 3, 2024
It was almost two years ago, early in Dr. Klaudia Nowak’s medical career, that she received an urgent call in the middle of the night. With a patient on the operating table and the surgeons standing by, she had 30 minutes to diagnose a sample of human brain tissue. Her conclusions could alter the course of brain surgery. Read More
September 3, 2024
Queen Square Doctors (QSD), a large and busy primary care clinic in Brampton, Ontario, partnered with CHIME Technology Inc. to address rising overhead costs and operational inefficiencies. Read More
June 27, 2024
TORONTO – At Women’s College Hospital in June, Mark Holland, Minister of Health, introduced the ‘Connected Care for Canadians Act’. The act aims to improve the access that Canadians have to their own health data, which should improve their decision-making and the care they receive. Pictured above, Kathleen Ross, president of the CMA, speaking about the need for better interoperability in healthcare IT at the e-Health 2024 conference. Read More
June 27, 2024
Fraser Health, in British Columbia, is emerging as one of Canada’s most technologically innovative health regions – especially when it comes to deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across the enterprise. Read More
June 27, 2024
TORONTO – A cancer surgeon at North York General Hospital has led the development of a new, digital platform – called MyJourney Health – that supports breast cancer patients, clinicians and healthcare administrators with an all-in-one app that facilitates their access to data. Read More
June 27, 2024
By improving the management of its large fleet of smartphones, Toronto-based VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) has found a way to make its employees happier and to reduce costs significantly at the same time. Read More
June 27, 2024
Providing diagnostic imaging services for a population of 45,000 across a region as vast as the Northwest Territories can be a real challenge, but a new picture archiving and communication system (PACS) acquired by the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) for the delivery of radiology services is making a huge difference. Read More
April 30, 2024
LONDON, Ont. – Ashmeet Gill had her first PET-CT scan shortly after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the body’s immune system. She was nervous. Claustrophobia is an issue for the young Stratford resident and the scan, necessary to determine if the cancer had spread beyond the lymph nodes in her neck, would take 34 to 45 minutes, she was told. Read More