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March 3, 2023
TORONTO – INOVAIT and the Government of Canada have announced a major investment in the field of image-guided therapy, with up to $22.7 million in contributions committed to 14 commercialization-focused R&D projects under INOVAIT’s Focus Fund program. Read More
March 3, 2023
When it comes to accessing healthcare services, Indigenous peoples are considered the most marginalized in Canada, with the poorest health outcomes and the most barriers. One example, a joint study released last year by the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, demonstrated that decades of poor health outcomes have resulted in a life expectancy gap of 11 years between status First Nations people and all other Manitobans. Shockingly, the 11-year gap is growing. Read More
March 1, 2023
ST. THOMAS, Ont. – St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (STEGH)’s diagnostic imaging department is now able to receive DI eReferrals as part of the Ontario eServices Program. Primary care clinicians and specialists are able to send electronic referrals directly to the DI department from most electronic medical records.
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February 8, 2023
LONDON, Ont. – Carestream Health is partnering with Robarts Research Institute to test and develop applications for digital X-ray, digital tomosynthesis and dual energy technologies in the area of cardiothoracic and pulmonary diseases. Carestream is providing a state-of-the-art imaging system and software to Robarts, the research institute of Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University in Canada, to advance its multidisciplinary translational research.
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February 7, 2023
What will radiology look like five years from now? Radiologists from across the United States and Canada weighed in on this topic at the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago last November. While it’s difficult to paint an exact picture of the future, the DI experts seemed to have a good sense of what will happen – in broad strokes. Read More
February 7, 2023
Scan our country’s diagnostic imaging (DI) network – across all modalities, provinces and sites – and the picture is clear: Canadians are waiting too long for routine medical imaging exams. “We’ve been arguing that it’s a crisis and action needs to happen now,” said B.C. Radiological Society President Dr. Charlotte Yong-Hing. “We just can’t sit back and study this for the next two years.” Read More
January 25, 2023
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers has received Health Canada licensing for its Symbia Pro.specta, a single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) system that has advanced SPECT and CT imaging technologies.
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January 25, 2023
KINGSTON, Ont. – Novari Health has announced that it has completed another successful implementation of its Medical Imaging Requisition Management (MIRM) technology. The software as a service (SaaS) technology was purchased by Hôpital Montfort with financial support from Ontario Health as an electronic means to manage the receipt, processing, workflows and waitlist management associated with inbound referrals for medical imaging.
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January 18, 2023
TORONTO – INOVAIT and the Government of Canada announced a major investment in the field of image-guided therapy (IGT), with up to $22.7 million in contributions committed to 14 commercialization-focused R&D projects under INOVAIT’s Focus Fund program.
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December 14, 2022
TORONTO – The Ontario government is investing over $20 million in operating funding to support the addition of 27 new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines in hospitals across Ontario. “The Ontario Association of Radiologists welcomes the government’s investment announcement of operational funding for new MRI scanners across Ontario,” said Dr. David Jacobs (pictured), president, Ontario Association of Radiologists. MRI is central to the detection and management of diseases, including cancer, strokes, and cardiac disease.
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