WINNIPEG – Manitoba has announced the introduction of a comprehensive, fully integrated provincial system for digital mammography. Health Minister Sharon Blady (pictured) said the first provincial site to receive a digital mammography system will be the Brandon Regional Health Centre in September 2015, adding that other sites will receive digital mammography between October 2015 and April 2016.
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Dr. Narinder Paul, like Noah, has faith that two are more productive than one. Especially if they are a pair of Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE Vision Edition volume CT scanners, working side by side.
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BRAMPTON, Ont. – William Osler Health System, one of Canada’s largest community hospitals with sites in Brampton and Etobicoke, Ontario, has awarded Siemens Canada Healthcare a Managed Equipment Service (MES) contract worth approximately $154 million.
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TORONTO – St. Michael’s Hospital has replaced its existing PACS with a Carestream Vue PACS, which offers an intuitive interface and easy integration with other systems to streamline the reading workflow.
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TORONTO – Siemens has announced the Magnetom Terra, a 7 Tesla MRI system that is designed to translate cutting-edge MRI research results into clinical application. According to Siemens, it is the world’s first ultra-high field research system ready for future clinical use with planned CE and FDA authorization to market for selected neurological and musculoskeletal MR imaging applications.
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TORONTO – Agfa HealthCare announced that Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has selected the DX-D 600 full room Direct Radiography (DR) suite to transition two X-ray rooms from analog to DR. The selection followed a thorough review of several DR technologies in which Agfa HealthCare’s DX-D 600, in combination with its MUSICA image processing software, was determined as ideally suited for the hospital’s large and fast-paced trauma centre.
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WINNIPEG – Construction has started on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite at the Grace Hospital, a 251-bed facility in the west end of Winnipeg. The new MRI is expected to offer approximately 2,800 additional scans per year, increasing the number of scans available for Manitobans and helping address wait times.
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KINGSTON, Ont. – Having an X-ray exam at Hotel Dieu Hospital is faster and more comfortable now, thanks to the major overhaul of a diagnostic imaging suite that introduces patients to advanced imaging technology.
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DELTA, BC – Delta Hospital announced that a $12.5 million project will expand, enhance and relocate the hospital’s medical imaging and laboratory services departments into a single facility.
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OTTAWA – A device about the size of a smartphone is now enabling cardiologists at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute to generate images of patients’ hearts at the point of care, allowing them to make more informed diagnoses and to intervene earlier. The use of this new state-of-the-art technology has resulted in improved care and outcomes and could potentially reduce healthcare costs.
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