Philips’ MRI lowers costs, improves productivity
October 3, 2018
MARKHAM, Ont. – Royal Philips , a global leader in healthcare technology, has received Health Canada approval for the Ingenia Ambition X 1.5T MR. This innovation is the latest advance in the Ingenia MRI portfolio, which comprises fully digital MRI systems, healthcare informatics and a range of maintenance and life cycle services for integrated solutions that empower a fast, smart, and simple path to enabling a confident diagnosis, the company said.
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OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers is pleased to announce the availability of its Atellica Solution in Canada, providing flexible, scalable, automation-ready immunoassay and chemistry analyzers. The Atellica Solution provides laboratory diagnostics professionals control and simplicity so they can spend more time driving outcomes and less time on operations.
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers announced that Health Canada has licensed the MAGNETOM Sola, its new 1.5T magnetic resonance system with a large 70 cm bore. This system brings BioMatrix technology, introduced in 2017 with the 3 Tesla MAGNETOM Vida system, to the 1.5 Tesla segment, making it available to a greater range of MRI providers and patients.
TORONTO – St. Joseph’s Hospital announced that a transformative $10 million donation by Myron and Berna Garron (pictured) will be used to purchase two new MRI machines. The investment will be used to replace an existing MRI machine that has been running 24/7, and with two scanners, will double the hospital’s capacity to 30,000 MRI tests a year.
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers has introduced the new Atellica 1500 Automated Urinalysis System – an automated microscopy device that can analyze 106 - 240 samples per hour, and saves results and images directly to a computer database.
Atellica 1500 combines two distinct systems – the CLINITEK Novus Automated Urine Chemistry Analyzer and the UAS800 Urine Sediment Analyzer into one completely-automated unit.
EDMONTON – The Cross Cancer Clinic’s new PET-MR scanner – the first in Western Canada – will give physicians and scientists a better picture of how diseases and treatments are working in the human body.
MONTREAL – Intelerad Medical Systems, a leader in enterprise workflow solutions, has announced the launch of its Artificial Intelligence initiative, along with the expansion of its partnership with Blackford to offer Blackford Platform, a single platform to access and manage multiple medical image analysis applications.