Viewing articles in the ‘Diagnostics’ topic.
November 7, 2018
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Health Canada has licensed the Biograph Vision, a new positron emission tomography/computed tomography system from Siemens Healthineers that delivers a new level of precision in PET/CT imaging.
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October 29, 2018
When diagnostic imaging (DI) equipment at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital needs servicing, who do they call? These days it’s as easy as a simple four-digit extension: 6363 or MEND. Read More
October 17, 2018
TORONTO – Healthcare providers across the province now have quick and seamless access to their patients’ diagnostic images and reports, thanks to a new initiative from eHealth Ontario.
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October 17, 2018
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers has announced that its Ottawa facility, which manufactures the epoc blood analysis system, will be expanded by 5,000 square feet to support new manufacturing lines and accommodate the growth of the healthcare business worldwide and in Canada. The epoc system is a handheld, wireless solution that enables comprehensive blood analysis testing at the patient’s side on a single room-temperature test card, with results in less than a minute.
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October 3, 2018
MARKHAM, Ont. – Royal Philips , a global leader in healthcare technology, has received Health Canada approval for the Ingenia Ambition X 1.5T MR. This innovation is the latest advance in the Ingenia MRI portfolio, which comprises fully digital MRI systems, healthcare informatics and a range of maintenance and life cycle services for integrated solutions that empower a fast, smart, and simple path to enabling a confident diagnosis, the company said.
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October 3, 2018
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers is pleased to announce the availability of its Atellica Solution in Canada, providing flexible, scalable, automation-ready immunoassay and chemistry analyzers. The Atellica Solution provides laboratory diagnostics professionals control and simplicity so they can spend more time driving outcomes and less time on operations.
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October 1, 2018
TORONTO – North York General Hospital, known as a technological innovator, has become the first hospital in Ontario (and the second across Canada, after the McGill University Health Centre) to implement a prone breast biopsy table that makes use of 3D mammography for needle guidance. Read More
September 5, 2018
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers announced that Health Canada has licensed the MAGNETOM Sola, its new 1.5T magnetic resonance system with a large 70 cm bore. This system brings BioMatrix technology, introduced in 2017 with the 3 Tesla MAGNETOM Vida system, to the 1.5 Tesla segment, making it available to a greater range of MRI providers and patients.
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July 18, 2018
TORONTO – St. Joseph’s Hospital announced that a transformative $10 million donation by Myron and Berna Garron (pictured) will be used to purchase two new MRI machines. The investment will be used to replace an existing MRI machine that has been running 24/7, and with two scanners, will double the hospital’s capacity to 30,000 MRI tests a year.
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July 3, 2018
TORONTO – A PET/MR scanner, installed in the basement of the Toronto General Hospital, is a rare imaging commodity in Canada – there are only three other machines of this sort that are operational across the country. Even though the system in Toronto is for experimental purposes, it has already started to provide astounding clinical benefits. In trials with patients, the PET/MR scanner has been able to find very small tumours, which flash on the display screen like hotspots. Read More