Diagnostics

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

HAMILTON, Ont. – To address the need for a national strategy and action plan relating to radiation safety for medical imaging care in Canada, a coalition of key stakeholders is being formed, called Canada Safe Imaging. Read More

TORONTO – St. Michael’s Hospital is conducting a trial of Carestream’s new Clinical Collaboration Platform, which enables providers to manage and share multi-format clinical data – including photographs and more structured, diagnostic images – to help clinicians make decisions. Read More

EDMONTON – Alberta Health Services has agreed to a one-year extension with Dynalife to continue to provide lab services for the Edmonton region into 2017. Read More

QUEBEC CITY – Shimadzu Medical Systems USA, a subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of advanced diagnostic imaging systems, has announced the installation of the first Sonialvision G4 in Canada. The system is now up and running at Radiologie et Imagerie Médicale de la Capitale (RIMC), a leading DI clinic in Quebec City. Read More

TORONTO – The Joint Department of Medical Imaging (JDMI) officially opened two new procedure rooms at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH), with biplane angiography systems that produce highly detailed views of the brain. Read More

TORONTO – Dr. Sylvia Asa (pictured), long-time head of pathology at the University Health Network, and her husband, Dr. Shereen Ezzat, an endocrinologist and director of a lab at the hospital, have both been demoted from their positions. The hospital concluded in an investigation that the physician-researchers had falsified data in scientific papers, according to court documents. Read More