BRANTFORD, Ont., and HAMILTON, Ont. – Joseph Brant Hospital (JBH) and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) have launched a new integrated health information system partnership. Under this alliance, JBH will adopt SJHH’s version of Epic, a major health information system.
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TORONTO – Medirex Systems Inc. is pleased to announce that it received advisory services and research and development funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) to support a breakthrough project aimed at modernizing patient authentication in healthcare settings.
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HALIFAX – The rollout of a new $365-million electronic medical records system for Nova Scotia is being pushed back until December. In a memo to staff earlier this month, Dr. Nicole Boutilier (pictured), executive vice-president of medicine for Nova Scotia Health, said officials have been re-evaluating the status of the clinical information system.
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TORONTO – North York General Hospital has improved the performance and usability of its Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR) by migrating it to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). With OCI, NYGH is able to offer a better experience for its patients and providers and enable a more agile approach to adopting new technologies like generative AI, the hospital said.
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LAS VEGAS – Two forward-thinking organizations described how they’re integrating genomic data into their MEDITECH electronic health records during the HIMSS conference in March. Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, based in Whitby, Ontario, near Toronto, and Frederick Health, located outside Baltimore, Maryland, have both made strides in capturing and using personalized data for clinical decision support.
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OTTAWA – Patients throughout eastern Ontario will soon be able to navigate the healthcare system more effectively as six hospitals are joining the Atlas Alliance’s digital health records system. Once these additional hospitals are onboarded, by fall 2026, patients and healthcare providers at any of the 16 partner organizations will have access to the health records they need with just a few clicks.
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HAMILTON, ONT. – A team at Hamilton Health Sciences is leading the charge to devise a ‘universal translator’, a set of technologies that will allow the electronic records used by hospitals, doctors’ offices and other medical organizations to talk to each other more easily.
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REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft Corp. has unveiled Microsoft Dragon Copilot, calling it the first AI assistant for clinical workflow that brings together the trusted natural language voice dictation capabilities of Dragon Medical One (DMO) with the ambient listening capabilities of DAX, fine-tuned generative AI and healthcare-adapted safeguards.
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OSHAWA, Ont. – Lakeridge Health is pleased to announce the achievement of the prestigious Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 6 certification. This accomplishment underscores Lakeridge Health’s commitment to improving patient care through the advancement of digital health and effective use of health information technology.
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FREDERICTON – New Brunswick’s official languages commissioner says her office has received dozens of complaints from people who could not receive service in French on the province’s eVisitNB health platform. In a report released last month, Shirley MacLean (pictured) said users who tried using the site in French received messages such as, “Unfortunately I am not able to understand your request well enough to provide treatment.”
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