TORONTO – Ontario’s largest medical laboratory company is laying-off more than 100 staff and closing 15 patient service centres that collect and process patient samples such as blood and urine.
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VICTORIA – Island Health is paying two private clinics almost $1 million to perform 1,800 MRI scans as part of a provincial initiative to reduce wait-lists over the first three months of this year.
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REGINA – Legislation that allows people to pay privately for MRI scans has come into force in Saskatchewan. Health Minister Dustin Duncan (pictured) says two private firms have been licensed by the Ministry of Health to provide MRI services that people will pay for out of their own pockets.
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TORONTO – Point-of-care ultrasound is helping doctors at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) provide better and more efficient bedside care in the emergency department, and it’s having a huge impact. Currently, point-of-care ultrasound is used in about 25 to 30 percent of the cases coming through SickKids’ emergency department.
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PETERBOROUGH – Peterborough Regional Health Centre has gone live with a $2 million automated medical laboratory. “We are thrilled to have completed this major upgrade to our lab after months of planning, preparation and implementation,” said Bernard Schaan (pictured), manager, laboratory services at PRHC.
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It’s being called the first real implementation of a Vendor Neutral Archive in Canada. Fujifilm Medical Systems, through its new acquisition, TeraMedica, has won the contract to install a system that can store and manage all types of images and data, at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre, in Peterborough, Ont.
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BARRIE, Ont. – Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre has installed three CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems to help care for patients in the emergency department (ED), intensive care unit (ICU), and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
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GUELPH, Ont. – A nuclear medicine scanner has been added to the Guelph General Hospital’s arsenal of high-tech diagnostic imaging tools. Weighing over 7,000 pounds, the machine is one of the first of its kind in Canada, since it also incorporates a CT scanner.
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HALIFAX – The IWK Health Centre has unveiled a new $1.2 million device to help detect cancer and other illnesses in children. The new machine is called the Adventure Series SPECT/CT and is made by General Electric.
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ETON, UK – InterSystems, a global leader in health information technology and developer of the InterSystems TrakCare unified healthcare information system, has announced the results of the InterSystems UK Laboratory Management Systems Market Survey 2015, which found that current information systems do not support the changes clinical laboratories are undergoing.
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