SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT – Mach7 Technologies, a company specializing in innovative medical imaging and data management solutions for healthcare providers, announced its partnership with Bialogics Analytics Inc., a company that provides interoperable and innovative data analytics solutions to healthcare providers and industry vendors.
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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. – Since the start of the pandemic, it’s not uncommon for Ontario hospitals to operate at occupancy rates above 100-percent. That’s why finding a way to match bed supply with patient demand is key to improving overall patient care, safety, and operational costs. The solution to this challenge may lie with ‘bed occupancy forecasting’, a process that involves analysis of admission and discharge data – often done manually.
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MONTREAL – A regional health network in Montreal is deploying VitalHub’s SHREWD Resilience and Action modules to support the coordination of services across the region. For its part, VitalHub acquired the SHREWD solution with its recent purchase of UK-based Transforming Systems.
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A new Command Centre at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital (JGH) is likely the first facility of its kind in Canada – and possibly in North America – to gather and display data about an integrated healthcare network.
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TORONTO – Bialogics Analytics has announced the go-live of its DxPro Clinical and Operational Analytics Solution for Medical Imaging at The Hospital for Sick Children. Using the new system, SickKids, an academic pediatric hospital in Toronto, turned 20 years of radiology reporting into a unified data repository containing 2.5 million diagnostic reports.
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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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Patients are undergoing more medical imaging studies than ever before, which has resulted in a significant increase in the cost of healthcare delivery. This trend will likely continue as technological advances shorten scan times, reduce modality prices and cut radiation doses.
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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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