LONDON, Ont. – An innovative Canadian company, Caring Support, is connecting qualified healthcare workers directly with Ottawa-based Bruyère through a commercialization project supported by the Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network.
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Product shortages and disruptions during the COVID pandemic have highlighted the dire need for Canada’s healthcare system to collaborate more effectively when it comes to procurement and the supply chain. What’s required is a task force consisting of private-sector suppliers, hospitals and other providers, and governments to share information and smooth the flow of shipments when supply disruptions occur.
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As orders for medical equipment flow through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems, giving a view of the purchasing patterns of hospitals across the country, it’s become apparent that different facilities are paying a wide range of prices for the same goods. Those disparities are especially noticeable in Ontario.
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Canadian hospital teams face challenges managing the medical equipment they need to deliver world class patient care. What if a tool could contribute to both improving patient care as well as improving staff satisfaction and efficiency? The deployment of GE Healthcare’s wireless asset tracking technology earlier this year, has helped Orillia’s Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) in finding wheelchairs, bladder scanners, and dozens of other items in mere minutes, allowing more time to be spent on quality patient care.
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KITCHENER, Ont. – St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener has added a touchscreen self-check-in kiosk into its emergency department, in hopes of streamlining patients through the triage system. This new kiosk will replace the old system of registration, which required those coming to the ED to fill out a paper form and wait for their number to be called.
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TORONTO – A bot that’s been nicknamed Otto has been reducing the paperwork for Linda Tonellato (pictured) and her Accounts Payable team at the UHN Finance department.
Not long ago, they would walk into work every day, spending at least five hours at their desks printing and organizing invoices one-by-one before tending to any other tasks. As a multi-billion-dollar organization, ensuring everyone gets paid properly and on-time is an integral part of a healthy-functioning company, even if it takes much of the workday.
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KINGSTON, Ont. – Novari Health has announced that it has executed an agreement with Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital (PSFDH) to implement its surgical wait list management and eBooking technology. The Novari ATC software is being implemented at Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital. The technology is being provided as software as a service (SaaS) to the hospital and all surgical offices.
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KINGSTON, Ont. – Novari Health has launched new technology to help manage COVID-19 surgical backlogs in Ontario, across Canada, and around the world. For the first time ever, the company says, healthcare systems now have access to an innovative tool to help manage surgical backlogs with Novari’s newest software solution.
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WESTON, Fla. and CALGARY – UKG, a leading global provider of human capital management (HCM), payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions, announced that Mosaic Primary Care Network (PCN), a group of family doctors and healthcare professionals creating healthier communities in Calgary, is using UKG Pro and UKG Dimensions to automate complex union rules related to scheduling and payroll.
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One of the five Montreal’s integrated university health and social services networks has partnered with VitalHub Corp. to pilot an operational visibility solution that will streamline patient flow across the network’s 26 healthcare services.
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