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June 7, 2017
MONTREAL – The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) has selected SeamlessMD’s enterprise platform for patient engagement and care management to reinforce its position as an industry leader for cardiac surgery, focused on safer recovery and higher patient satisfaction.
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May 1, 2017
Respirologists at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital are breathing easier these days. They’ve deployed software from Influx Workflow Solutions, which extracts patient data from a wide array of cardiology and respirology diagnostic devices and consolidates it all in a single structured report. The reports can then be easily viewed by respirologists, cardiologists, referring physicians and other caregivers – easily and quickly. Read More
April 19, 2017
TORONTO – Truven Health Analytics, an IBM Company, has enhanced a version of its Micromedex provider solution specifically for the Canadian healthcare sector.
Additional Health Canada approved labelling and expanded guideline summaries now provide Canadian healthcare professionals with the clinical insights into medication uses, dosing and warnings they need to make the most appropriate treatment decisions.
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April 5, 2017
MONTREAL – Telus Health and Groupe DOmedic, Inc., a Quebec start-up that designs high-tech products to improve medication compliance, have announced a partnership that will enable better health monitoring and improved medication management for seniors with the launch of xPill PHARMA.
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March 30, 2017
CALGARY – Alberta’s 17 stroke treatment centres are now among the fastest in the world in giving patients the clot-busting drug tPA (tissue Plasminogen Activator). Read More
March 8, 2017
MONTREAL – The Montreal Heart Institute has opened the first electrophysiology laboratory (EP Lab) equipped with robotic and magnetic navigation and dedicated to congenital heart diseases in Canada. Congenital heart diseases are cardiac malformations that affect approximately 1% of all Canadians.
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March 8, 2017
OTTAWA – The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement has announced the next phase in a multi-year effort to improve patient access to timely specialist care. The Connected Medicine collaboration with Canada Health Infoway, the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada will spread proven Canadian innovations that connect primary and specialty care providers.
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March 1, 2017
HAMILTON, ONT. – Code Blues used to sound every day at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), but an early warning system that measures six vital signs has been used to dramatically reduce their incidence. Now, it can be days before one hears a Code Blue at most of the hospital’s acute care sites. Read More
March 1, 2017
Canadians recovering from surgery are leaving hospitals sooner with improved outcomes thanks to a growing push to implement Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) – evidence-based protocols that require compliance by both clinicians and patients. Read More
February 1, 2017
TORONTO – North York General Hospital, a community academic hospital, has been named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology (IT) to substantially improve patient outcomes.
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