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.
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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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OTTAWA – The Canadian government will soon hire an Ottawa-based company specializing in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence to forecast potential spikes in suicide risk. A contract with Advanced Symbolics Inc., an AI and market research firm, is set to be finalized next month.
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ORLANDO, FLA. – While IBM and its Watson Health division have been vocal about their plans to transform healthcare through Deep Learning, NantHealth has been quietly assembling its own platform that uses artificial intelligence to combat one of mankind’s worst healthcare problems – the scourge of cancer.
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OSHAWA, ONT. – In summer 2016, we were excited to announce a new $3 million project to develop a market-ready version of Artemis to be used at bedside by clinicians. This will initially be deployed at our new partner hospital Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ont., with support from my long-time research partner IBM Canada.
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VICTORIA, B.C. – The Bialogics Business Intelligence and Analytics program has now been expanded beyond the Diagnostic Imaging department to reach Emergency Departments, where it improves imaging priority and resource requirements through the use of analytics that can align with the Canadian Triage Acuity Scoring timelines.
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CHICAGO – Resistance by end-users, poor data quality and trouble integrating data from disparate sources are among the top factors preventing healthcare organizations from adopting business intelligence (BI) and analytics, according to a new study conducted by HIMSS Analytics on behalf of Qlik, a leader in visual analytics.
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VICTORIA, BC – Bialogics Analytics has announced the release of its next generation platform that enables healthcare organizations to effectively manage analytics across the enterprise. Bialogics’ new platform is specifically designed to address the rapid growth and convergence of data within digital healthcare. A state-of-the-art data management tool, it quickly and securely gathers data from mission-critical clinical systems isolated within hospitals.
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TORONTO – Sunnybrook Hospital is about to ink an agreement with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research to share genomic research, IT processing power and Big Data resources. The two organizations are banding together to improve the care of oncology patients and to lead the way in the ‘personalized medicine’ revolution.
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WATERLOO, Ont. – BlackBerry Ltd. has announced an investment in NantHealth, a U.S. firm launched by self-made billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong (pictured), an innovator in the treatment of cancer and diabetes who made his fortune creating and selling successful pharmaceutical companies.
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