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October 30, 2019
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. Read More
October 30, 2019
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. Read More
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