HAMILTON, ONT. – Mohawk College and McMaster University have announced the opening of a new facility for educational training, imaging research and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that promises to cut wait times and improve patient experience.
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The Medical Imaging team at Royal Columbian Hospital now has access to CT remote scanning support through the syngo Virtual Cockpit software. The syngo Virtual Cockpit (sVC) software was developed by Siemens Healthineers and enables experienced technologists from the Medical Imaging team to become remote steering technologists, remotely supporting on-site technologists in operating up to three scanning machines.
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NEW YORK – At the AWS Summit held here in July, Apollo Enterprise Imaging discussed how hospitals are struggling to keep things up-to-date when connecting their various imaging systems to the Electronic Medical Record. They may be linking radiology, cardiology, pathology, and many other systems to the EMR – each with its own interface to the electronic record system.
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KINGSTON, Ont. – Kingston Health Sciences Centre is beginning construction later this month to house a positron emission tomography scanner (PET-CT) at Kingston General Hospital. The scanner will be the first of its kind to be located in southeastern Ontario outside of Ottawa and Toronto and provides “extremely sensitive and effective” non-invasive detection, diagnosis and monitoring for cancer treatment, as well as cardiac and neurological diseases.
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SASKATOON – Saskatchewan’s first portable pediatric MRI is coming to Saskatoon’s Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital. A total of $1 million was raised to foot the cost of the machine. Half that amount was raised through the Drive for Kids golf tournament, and the funds were then matched by sponsors and donors.
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CHICAGO – GE HealthCare announced it received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for more than $44 million to create user-friendly, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted ultrasound imaging auto-assessment tools. These tools will seek to aid healthcare professionals – even those without specialized training or experience with ultrasound.
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WATERLOO, Ont. – Robotics company Cobionix has raised a $2.8 million seed round to deploy its commercial robotics system Codi, an industry-first tele-robotic medical imaging tool. The company, which is part of the University of Waterloo’s Velocity incubator, hopes that Codi will increase access to diagnostic imaging services and save healthcare costs by reducing procedure time, ultimately improving patient care.
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HALIFAX – Thousands of people across Nova Scotia are on the wait-list for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and, for some, their wait could last over a year. Dr. Ania Kielar (pictured), president of the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR), says the average Canadian patient waits between 50 and 89 days to be seen for an MRI – much longer than the expected 28-day range.
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TORONTO – Predictmedix AI, a Toronto-based startup company, has produced a Safe Entry Station, an AI-powered scanner that can instantly monitor a variety of vital signs, such as heart rates, blood pressure, body temperature and respiration. The walk-through scanner can even detect alcohol or cannabis intoxication.
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THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Radialis Inc., a joint venture of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute and Lakehead University, has received approval for marketing its positron tomography imaging device from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company can now sell its low-dose Radialis PET imager, which focuses on tumours in specific organs, to U.S. organizations.
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