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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WATERLOO, Ont. – The University of Waterloo and Pervasive Dynamics will develop and test wearable health technologies that can improve stroke rehabilitation as part of a new partnership aimed at transforming the health of older adults.
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VANCOUVER – The hemodialysis team at St. Paul’s Hospital has won a prestigious national award for a care model redesign that improved patient care and saved close to $700,000. The Canadian College of Health Leaders recognized the team for undertaking the transformational redesign with the 3M Health Care Quality Team Award (Acute Services Category) in Charlottetown, PEI.
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RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – Mackenzie Health has announced the second phase of its Innovation Unit, a living laboratory with 34-beds that is about to implement and test smart messaging and clinical alerting, in conjunction with partners BlackBerry, Cisco and Thoughtwire.
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TORONTO – LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services has announced the opening in Toronto of Canada’s largest, privately owned genetics laboratory. The new lab will make cost effective, clinically relevant genetic testing more accessible to all Canadians, the company said.
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MONTREAL – McGill University Health Centre’s (MUHC) Steinberg-Bernstein Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery has partnered with Toronto-based SeamlessMD, a company which provides a cloud-based patient engagement solution for surgery, to perform the first-ever study of a patient tablet application for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS).
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CALGARY – Pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, are common in patients who spend extended periods of time in bed or sitting down – and researchers at Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) are trying to change that.
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HALIFAX – Care providers, researchers and parents at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax have joined forces to develop ChezNICU, a secure, virtual environment that will link neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patient rooms with family homes and caregivers on as well as offsite. The IWK is ready to pilot and advance the project in 2016 with new support from the Government of Canada.
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Integrating separate and complex clinical information systems in a large health authority is like working with a giant Rubik’s cube – but it can be done. Fraser Health, which has 23,000 staff servicing 1.7 million people in the Greater Vancouver area, is successfully implementing a commercial off-the-shelf health information exchange (HIE) solution to unify clinical information from hospital, community health, primary health care and provincial systems.
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VANCOUVER – BC Centre for Disease Control has gone live with GetCheckedOnline, the first online service in Canada offering easy, convenient testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and Hepatitis C.
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