Viewing articles in the ‘Clinical Solutions’ topic.
September 2, 2015
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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July 22, 2015
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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July 8, 2015
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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July 8, 2015
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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June 17, 2015
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). Read More
May 20, 2015
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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May 20, 2015
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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April 30, 2015
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. Read More
April 22, 2015
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. Read More
March 30, 2015
SUDBURY, ONT. – Intensive care professionals are now able to provide their expertise to 16 hospitals across northeast Ontario through the Virtual Critical Care unit, an advanced telehealth system headquartered at Health Sciences North. Read More