March 30, 2015
With the increasing demand driven by Canada’s aging population, home care organizations have to wring more and more efficiencies out of a mobile and often remote workforce. Despite the obvious opportunity for mobile technology to streamline workflow, until recently, home care has been a largely paper-and-fax-based industry. Read More
March 30, 2015
Humber River Hospital won’t open the doors to its new, state-of-the-art acute care facility in northwest Toronto until October of this year, but the surgery department already knows the operating rooms will be running smoothly. Read More
March 30, 2015
TORONTO – Older adults currently account for almost 60 percent of hospital days even though they only represent about 15 percent of the population. But most hospitals were designed in previous eras to care for younger populations. Read More
February 27, 2015
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize competition, an international quest to develop a portable device that can diagnose 15 ailments in a package weighing less than 5 lbs., will announce a winner in January 2016 – and a Canadian company is one of the 10 companies in the running. Read More
February 27, 2015
Mravyan, an electrical engineer, and Will Mann, a biochemist he met when both were earning their MBAs at Western University’s Richard Ivey School of Business, approached the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute to identify health problems that some technological innovation could help improve.“We wanted to do something real and useful,” Mravyan says. Read More
February 27, 2015
BRAMPTON, ONT. – William Osler Health System in January announced that a team of four grad students from the University of Toronto has won its second annual National Student App Contest. Victor Chen, Haley Liu, Jerry Tang and Cory Blumenfeld won for their app, called Outpatient, which focuses on lowering the number of patient re-admissions to hospital. Read More
February 27, 2015
TORONTO – A new computerized system, designed to help patients prepare for their operations before surgery and to help monitor their recovery afterwards, is proving to be highly effective. Read More
January 29, 2015
CHICAGO – Solutions for interoperability are hot commodities these days, and the market for Vendor Neutral Archives, which can house and interchange all manner of healthcare information, is growing by leaps and bounds. It’s estimated that sales of VNAs are growing by double digits each year, compared with single digit growth for traditional Picture Archiving and Communication Systems. Read More
January 29, 2015
CHICAGO – Over 28,000 medical professionals from the United States, Canada and around the world flocked to the Radiological Society of North America’s 100th annual meeting at the end of 2014, seeking updates on the latest imaging techniques and technologies. Many innovations were found on the show floor, where vendors showcased their work in CT, MR, PET, dose reduction, vendor neutral archives, zero footprint viewers, and more. Here are just some of the latest developments: Read More
January 29, 2015
BRAMPTON, ONT. – Synapse, a system that enables healthcare professionals to easily communicate with each other via Facebook-like technology, is currently being used by about 1,000 physicians across Ontario, plus another 3,000 nurses, pharmacists and allied healthcare professionals. Read More