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October 7, 2020
MONTREAL – IBM Canada is working with Diabetic Children’s Foundation (aka ‘Fred’) in Quebec to support children living with diabetes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The AI-powered virtual agent is available in Quebec and across Canada 24-hours per day in both French and English to answer questions related to diabetes care, parent support, school concerns, and issues pertaining to COVID-19.
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September 2, 2020
VICTORIA, BC – During a video taken May 30, 2019, 71-year-old retired firefighter Dan Kelly rises from a seated position, performs a little happy dance, and flashes the camera a satisfied grin. What is not immediately apparent is that only one hour prior to the images being captured, Kelly was in a Royal Jubilee Hospital operating room with Victoria orthopedic surgeon Dr. Duncan Jacks (pictured) and anaesthetist Dr. Jacques Smit, receiving his second hip replacement surgery in four and a half months.
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August 19, 2020
MONTREAL – A cardiologist at the Sacre-Coeur Hospital has become the first in Canada to use a new microcatheter, called Mamba, that improves the removal of plaques from coronary arteries.
Boston Scientific, the producer of the device, approached Montreal cardiologist Raja Hatem (pictured) to perform this Canadian first. Dr. Hatem has a subspecialty in high-risk procedures and has already worked with the Mamba tools in Texas.
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August 19, 2020
HALIFAX – The QEII Health Sciences Centre is getting ready to open Atlantic Canada’s first hybrid operating room. The hybrid OR will be located on the fifth floor of the Halifax Infirmary (HI) site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre and will feature state-of-the-art medical imaging equipment that will allow for advanced surgical procedures.
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June 30, 2020
For patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, the road to recovery can be harrowing. People with severe illness can undergo intubation, ventilation, and paralytic drugs. Read More
June 16, 2020
TORONTO – Health Canada recently announced the Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system has been temporarily authorized for expanded use in hospitals, in an effort to help remotely monitor those who are critically ill during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 29, 2020
Whitby, ON – Healthcare workers dealing with mental health challenges during this pandemic can get rapid access to a new service to support their resiliency and recovery.
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March 18, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, MA – IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) today announced a strategic partnership aimed towards enhancing clinical decision support (CDS) and operations for healthcare providers and health systems. The companies are combining their respective platforms – DynaMed® and IBM Micromedex® – into a single, high-value solution called DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson.
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March 11, 2020
TORONTO – Orion Health has developed a comprehensive pandemic outbreak monitoring platform to alleviate demand on health systems and reduce the risk of further spread of the COVID-19 virus, the company said. The Orion Health software that supports this will be offered at no cost to existing and future customers. Read More
August 7, 2019
LONDON, Ont. – A London youth was the first paediatric patient in Ontario to receive a robot-assisted stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) procedure. The operation was performed by the Paediatric Epilepsy Program at Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC).
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