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January 31, 2020
HALIFAX – The continued growth of the digitalization of healthcare information is critical to the delivery of high-value care. In August 2019, Nova Scotia became the first province in Canada to successfully connect a Laboratory Information System (LIS) to the Panorama Public Health Information System. Read More
January 29, 2020
LONDON, ONT. – Hospitals in London, Ont. have partnered with Siemens Healthineers to refresh and modernize the city’s stock of MRIs and angiography devices. In December, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London announced the signing of a $42 million deal for six new MRI machines and eight new angio suites. Read More
January 22, 2020
VANCOUVER – Vancouver Imaging, a group of over 70 radiologists, has signed on to use Real Time Medical’s smart workload-balancing, physician skills development and error-avoidance platform. Vancouver Imaging, which provides reading services for hospital and out-of-hospital imaging centres, will implement the system in the first half of 2020 at its non-hospital clinics.
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December 11, 2019
CHICAGO – Vendors at the 2019 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) introduced many new systems, both hardware and software. Here’s a round-up of some of the high-profile announcements from the show floor:
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December 11, 2019
LONDON, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers Canada has been selected by London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London to provide imaging systems to serve the community of Southern Ontario. Siemens Healthineers will replace and upgrade the hospitals’ Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Interventional Radiology and Cardiology systems citywide and provide support services for at least ten years.
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December 11, 2019
MONTREAL – To allow radiology departments to better assess the value of AI, Intelerad recently announced it will cover the cost of 12 months of usage of AI apps from global leader Zebra Medical, from RSNA 2019 to RSNA 2020, when used by Intelerad’s customers.
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December 11, 2019
VISTA, Calif. – Leica Biosystems, a global leader in pathology workflow solutions, and the international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company, Sectra, announced a collaboration to seek a combined 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in the near future. The goal is for the integrated clinical digital pathology solution to address the clinical needs of enterprise level customers such as academic medical centres, clinical research organizations and large hospital networks.
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December 11, 2019
CHICAGO – GE Healthcare has launched the Edison Developer Program to accelerate the adoption and impact of intelligent applications and developer services across health systems. The program is based on Edison, GE Healthcare’s secure intelligence platform, and helps healthcare providers gain easier access to market-ready algorithms and applications by directly integrating these technologies into existing workflows.
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December 11, 2019
THUNDER BAY, Ont. – A researcher at Lakehead University is being recognized for his innovative work to develop an imaging technology that delivers high-resolution pictures at a much lower dose of radiation, providing a breast imaging alternative to mammography, positron emission tomography (PET) scan and other imaging devices.
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December 11, 2019
OTTAWA – The University of Ottawa Heart Institute is one of the only centres in the world capable of performing completely non-invasive radio-ablation to treat heart disease. In October, a team of doctors at the UOHI, in partnership with their colleagues at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, successfully performed the country’s first completely non-invasive cardiac radio-ablation without incident.
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