NL ignored warnings about mammo devices
September 21, 2022
ST. JOHN’S, NL – A former Central Health radiologist says she warned the provincial government and the regional health authority about problems related to mammography in 2019 but felt her concerns were largely ignored. Dr. Jane Rendell (pictured), who worked in Gander for six years until she was sidelined in September 2019 due to ongoing disputes, was one of three radiologists to send a letter to the Department of Health and Community Services on Oct. 10, 2019.
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ST. JOHN’S, NL – Mammography images from more than 16,000 Newfoundland and Labrador patients are under review after health officials discovered a problem with the way employees were examining diagnostic images. Newfoundland and Labrador’s four regional health authorities will review thousands of diagnostic images stretching back to 2018, after confirming patients across the province have been screened for breast cancer on inadequate monitors.
FORT COLLINS, CO – Enlitic Inc., a leading healthcare IT company, announced a new long-term collaboration with GE Healthcare to improve operational efficiencies and outcomes for GE’s radiologists and patients around the world. GE will embed Enlitic’s proprietary AI-based Curie platform into GE radiologist’s workflow to improve data standardization and drive efficiency and capacity within the system.
ST. PAUL, Alta. – Amy Bespalko (pictured), an ultrasound tech from Alberta, has started her own medical imaging clinic. While looking for a job in 2021, she somehow agreed to start her own clinic instead, in her hometown of St. Paul. Located 200 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, no such clinic previously existed there.
EDMONTON – Medo, a Canadian company that applies AI to ultrasound to help improve the diagnosis, is being acquired by Exo, an American health information and medical device company interested in making ultrasound imaging faster and simpler so that a wider range of caregivers can use it.
VANCOUVER – Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) will be the primary data provider for the Iris Platform, Canada’s first artificial intelligence-based co-pilot for diagnostic imaging analysis and course-of-treatment planning and monitoring. VCH and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) are joining GE Healthcare, Konica Minolta, the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer on this project as a part of the Digital Supercluster, led by Synthesis Health.
EDMONTON – More than 7,000 Albertans have had their imaging procedures delayed due to a global shortage of contrast dye, and there are growing concerns about the impact on patients as supply issues drag on. The dye is used in roughly half of the CT scans performed in Alberta, and it helps make blood vessels and organs more visible.
LINKÖPING, Sweden and MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra has signed a contract with Niagara Health System, where Niagara Health will utilize the radiology and cardiology modules as well as the vendor-neutral archive (VNA) of Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution. The solution will support Niagara Health’s growing imaging demands and provide efficient workflows to improve diagnostics and patient care within the Niagara region.
SHERBROOKE, Que. – Work has begun to upgrade the medical laboratories of the CIUSSS de l’Estrie – CHUS with the commissioning of new biochemistry and hematology systems for the labs of the Fleurimont Hospital and the Hôtel-Dieu de Sherbrooke.