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August 28, 2019
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. Read More
May 22, 2019
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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March 1, 2019
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. Read More
December 6, 2018
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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May 9, 2018
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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May 1, 2018
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. Read More
March 29, 2018
LAS VEGAS – St. Michael’s Hospital, in Toronto, has created a business intelligence (BI) and forecasting tool that enables the acute-care centre to answer questions in just two hours, down from the three to five days it took previously. Read More
March 1, 2018
TORONTO – Quality and safety can be improved through the use of tools like business intelligence and analytics, but you need to “democratize” the data, so that everyone is on board across the organization. Read More
January 31, 2018
TORONTO – Humber River Hospital announced the opening of its Star Trek-like Command Centre with an auditorium full of visiting luminaries in attendance – including GE’s CEO John Flannery, two Ontario government cabinet ministers, and doctors and administrators from 13 U.S. hospitals who came to learn about the AI-powered centre. Read More
January 24, 2018
OTTAWA – Four hospitals in the Ottawa area are using live-streaming analytic feeds from paramedics to keep an eye on the volume of patients headed to their emergency rooms. The systems will also show when it’s taking too long for paramedics to be redeployed after dropping off a patient.
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