CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – Cambridge Memorial Hospital and CognisantMD, of Toronto, announced the availability of a real-time eReferral system for ordering diagnostic imaging tests in the Waterloo region. Using the Ocean Platform, family physicians can now order MRIs, CTs, ultrasounds, X-rays, mammography, BMD and Nuclear Medicine tests directly from their electronic medical record (EMR) without the need for redundant patient entry or an additional sign-in process.
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TORONTO – The Toronto General Hospital’s Transitional Pain Service has selected ManagingLife’s Manage My Pain app to help prevent the development of chronic, postsurgical pain for at-risk patients post-surgery. Toronto General is part of the University Health Network; each year, it performs more than 25,000 surgical operations.
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CALGARY – Strata Health Solutions is showing that innovative Canadian software developers can successfully export their solutions around the world. The Calgary-based developer of a proprietary patient flow solution launched its international strategy in 2008, with an office in London, England. Since that initial investment, the company has annually deployed multiple long-term NHS contracts across England and Scotland.
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Diagnostic imaging devices are remarkable technologies, but they’ve been developed separately over the years by different vendors, without regard to how they’re used together. That incompatibility problem not only plagues radiologists, but cardiologists, too.
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – Some lung cancer patients may have better outcomes faster, thanks to a new cutting edge form of radiation therapy introduced at Sault Area Hospital (SAH) in March 2015.
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BARRIE, Ont. – An operating room at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH), in Barrie, has become one of the most technically advanced surgical theatres in the country after the installation of Toshiba’s first “hybrid” operating and imaging system in Canada.
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TORONTO – Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, handed out two Minister’s Medals to Honour Excellence in Health Quality and Safety. The medals are part of an annual recognition program that celebrates the efforts of Ontario’s healthcare providers in improving care for Ontarians. This year, medals were awarded to one team and one individual.
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With increasing pressures to reduce turn-around time for delivery and/or access to medication, five small-to-medium sized hospital sites across the province of Ontario have turned to a centralized solution for physician order review by their respective pharmacy departments.
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EDMONTON – Alberta’s first gamma knife and clinical 3T MRI Centre – with the capability to pinpoint hard-to-reach brain tumours and perform life-saving surgery without a scalpel – will be installed at the University of Alberta Hospital.
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KELOWNA – The new Interior Heart and Surgical Centre at Kelowna General Hospital is on track to open later this month. The Province provided $296 million to the overall project and $85 million was contributed by the Central Okanagan Regional Hospital District for a total of $381 million.
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