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August 9, 2017
VANCOUVER – A Canadian woman in need of life-saving brain surgery may need to go to the United States to obtain the operation, which requires the use of technology created in Canada. While the advanced NeuroBlate laser surgery was devised in Winnipeg and tested extensively in Vancouver, no Canadian hospital has decided to fund the technology for adult use past the pilot stage.
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July 19, 2017
VANCOUVER – After 10 years, Jack the Robot is preparing to retire. A member of the da Vinci Surgical family, Jack has assisted his masters in more than one thousand surgical procedures at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). While he has served the community well, Jack is becoming obsolete and the time has come for a more advanced robot to take his place.
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July 19, 2017
TORONTO – League has announced the introduction of Health Concierge, a virtual care solution that provides members with a simple and convenient way to manage their health, all uniquely integrated with League’s group benefits solution.
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July 19, 2017
KITCHENER, Ont. – Grand River Hospital has successfully implemented Wellsoft Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) in the hospital’s Lazaridis Family Foundation Emergency Department (ED).
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July 5, 2017
MARKHAM, ONT. – Kinark Child and Family Services, one of Ontario’s largest providers of mental health services for children and youth, is in the midst of migrating all of its computerized clinical and administrative systems to the cloud. The transformation is expected to result not only in lower costs, but will also boost the ability of clinicians, clients and families to share information. Read More
July 5, 2017
By combining smart technologies with an Early Warning Scoring (EWS) system in its surgical department, a large hospital in New York City has reduced ‘failure to rescue’ deaths by a whopping 35 percent. Failure to rescue patients are those who have experienced a treatable complication and died in hospital. Read More
July 5, 2017
The team behind the operating room black box is working to incorporate artificial intelligence into its reporting on surgical safety. Read More
June 21, 2017
SURREY, B.C. – Medtronic Canada has announced the grand opening of its first Canadian Medtronic Resource Centre in support of patients living with diabetes, in Surrey, BC, and the surrounding area. The centre will be located in the Health and Technology District, near Surrey Memorial Hospital.
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June 21, 2017
EDMONTON – An EMS Stroke Ambulance program established by Alberta Health Services in partnership with the University Hospital Foundation in Edmonton has received the Paramedics Chiefs of Canada (PCC) Innovative Treatment/Technology award. Demers Ambulance, a North American leader in ambulance manufacturing, developed the SA in partnership with AHS that serves as the foundation of the AHS program.
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June 7, 2017
GODERICH, Ont., and STRATFORD, Ont. – PatientKeeper Inc., a leading provider of healthcare applications for physicians, has announced that five hospitals in Ontario – the four sites of the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance (HPHA), and the Alexandra Marine & General Hospital (AMGH) – will add PatientKeeper CPOE and PatientKeeper Medication Reconciliation to their existing PatientKeeper clinical automation solutions.
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