College offers degree bridging medical technology & leadership
October 30, 2017
The new medical technologies responsible for the ongoing transformation of healthcare systems are often credited, alongside incredible clinical breakthroughs, for extending both the quality of patient care and lifespans. It is also within this framework that society has come to expect financial accountability, unrestricted access to modern medical technology and continuously improving levels of patient care. Read More
OSHAWA, Ont. – Durham College (DC) is proud to announce that it will offer its first degree program, the Honours Bachelor of Health Care Technology Management (HCTM), beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year.
HALIFAX – The medical school at Dalhousie University is now screening prospective students for character traits such as empathy and integrity, and has reviewed its admissions process for the first time in 10 years, following high-profile cases at the Halifax university of would-be doctors in trouble with the law.
TORONTO – Organizations face numerous risks when outsourcing IT, including costly business interruptions, security breaches and data loss. Can you confidently manage and mitigate Cloud and SaaS risks?
EDMONTON and MONTREAL – CAE Healthcare and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) announced today that they have entered a simulation research partnership to improve healthcare education and patient safety, including support for NAIT’s simulation research initiatives.
QUEBEC CITY – Telus Health and Université Laval are joining forces to provide state-of-the-art, comprehensive simulation teaching facilities to the university’s pharmacy faculty.
Through an investment of more than $300,000 from Telus Health, Laval pharmacy students will gain hands-on experience throughout their academic program, as well as an opportunity to operate a leading-edge technology – Ubik, Telus Health’s next-generation pharmacy management platform.
VICTORIA – A new graduate certificate program in Health Terminology Standards is now being offered at the University of Victoria’s School of Health Information Science. The course is intended to help meet national and international needs for best practices in controlled terminology used across the health sciences.
OTTAWA – Montfort, Ontario’s Francophone academic hospital, has officially launched its knowledge institute, the Institut du savoir Montfort (ISM). The ISM is the second hospital-associated institute dedicated to research and education in Ontario.
MONTREAL – CAE Healthcare has announced the release of CAE VimedixAR, an ultrasound training simulator integrated with the Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first self-contained holographic computer. CAE Healthcare will be the first company to bring a commercial Microsoft HoloLens application to the medical simulation market.