Winston Churchill famously said we should never waste a good crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic may have imposed massive short-term changes on Canada’s healthcare system, but the silver lining may be that the pandemic could also help expedite the adoption of new tools and processes that will allow for long-term, sustainable improvements benefitting patients, healthcare providers, and the healthcare system.
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Family physician Dr. Karen Seigel, a member of the Crowfoot Village Family Practice in Calgary, is on a mission to improve screening for kidney disease among her diabetic patients. How did she identify the gap? By accessing her Primary Healthcare Panel Report, a free analytical resource provided to family physicians in the province by the Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA).
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TORONTO – Humber River Hospital has launched the world’s first clinical analytic applications in a hospital Command Centre. The new solutions use real-time clinical data, early warning algorithms and AI to identify issues and raise the quality of care. The hospital worked in partnership with GE Healthcare to develop the Command Centre and its new capabilities.
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Canadian researchers are digging deep to help solve an age-old problem: diagnostic error. By applying recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) – including machine learning, deep networks and cutting-edge computer vision algorithms – they are working to automate the process of arriving at medical consensus, training machines to recognize thousands upon thousands of digital images so they can quickly and accurately serve as intelligent assistants.
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TORONTO – Physicians collect an enormous amount of data about patients, and they log much of it into their EMRs each day. Nevertheless, doctors may sometimes forget to record certain items – such as whether a patient is a smoker or is due for diabetes screening.
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NEWTON, Mass. and TORONTO – Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data, and Bialogics Analytics, a leading provider of business intelligence analytics, announced they have formed a strategic partnership that will streamline access to analytics for medical imaging.
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ST. JOHN’S, NL – The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is investing $3.8 million in a Health Data Lab that’s focusing on analytics and artificial intelligence to improve healthcare delivery. The project may very well become the most advanced of its sort in Canada, as it brings near real-time data flows from across the jurisdiction into a secure, consolidated repository.
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CHICAGO – There was plenty of talk at the annual RSNA conference about the growing importance of business intelligence and analytics (BIA) as technologies that can solve problems in the here and now. Unfortunately, on this front, healthcare may be well behind the times. “We as an industry are laggards,” commented Dr. Paul Chang (pictured), professor of radiology at the University of Chicago. “We’re still talking about dashboards and scorecards, as if it’s the 1990s.”
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TORONTO – Bialogics announced that as of May 2018, North York General Hospital (NYGH) will be implementing the Bialogics DImax Radiology Analytics solution as its analytics platform for Diagnostic Imaging.
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Real Time Medical, of Mississauga, Ont., has announced a partnership with Google that not only positions the Real Time Medical platform on the Google Cloud, but also creates a working partnership to create new, AI-driven solutions for clinicians in Canada and worldwide.
Real Time Medical is the creator of a peer-review, quality and education system for radiologists and other clinicians. The solution checks the quality of the readings done by radiologists and other specialists by sharing a portion of their work among a group of peers on the Real Time Medical network.
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NEWTON, Mass. and TORONTO – Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data, and Bialogics Analytics, a leading provider of business intelligence analytics, announced they have formed a strategic partnership that will streamline access to analytics for medical imaging.
CHICAGO – There was plenty of talk at the annual RSNA conference about the growing importance of business intelligence and analytics (BIA) as technologies that can solve problems in the here and now. Unfortunately, on this front, healthcare may be well behind the times. “We as an industry are laggards,” commented Dr. Paul Chang (pictured), professor of radiology at the University of Chicago. “We’re still talking about dashboards and scorecards, as if it’s the 1990s.”
TORONTO – Bialogics announced that as of May 2018, North York General Hospital (NYGH) will be implementing the Bialogics DImax Radiology Analytics solution as its analytics platform for Diagnostic Imaging.