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June 8, 2022
ORILLIA, Ont. – In a continuous effort to reduce wait times, help improve patient experience, and support healthcare providers, Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) is implementing the first GE Healthcare Real Time Location System (RTLS) in Canada.
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December 1, 2021
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The Ontario government is making the largest single hospital infrastructure investment in Ontario history by making a multi-billion-dollar investment to build a new, state-of-the-art Mississauga Hospital and expanding Queensway Health Centre, both of which are part of Trillium Health Partners (THP).
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November 4, 2021
TORONTO – Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) is a busy community facility serving over 400,000 people in 22 neighbourhoods across East Toronto. The hospital is currently expanding its site with an eight-floor tower and an additional three-floor extension that will add 500,000 square feet of clinical space to the medical centre. Read More
September 22, 2021
TORONTO – Caribou Inc., a home care technology company, announced the official launch of their global platform: myCaribou. On the road from innovation to global distribution, medical device equipment manufacturers and distributors face many false starts: inaccurate market insight, regulatory issues, misaligned partnerships, and misguided channel strategies.
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June 9, 2021
TORONTO – Canadian Medical Auctions, dedicated to the re-marketing and auction of surplus healthcare equipment, is delighted to announce their official launch, as the first specialized medical equipment auction house in Canada.
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April 30, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has quickly transformed how Canadian healthcare organizations deliver IT services to their employees, suppliers and partners. In 2018, Statistics Canada reported that less than 10 percent of Canadian employees worked from home once or twice a week. By mid-2020 that figure had grown to 40 percent. Read More
March 24, 2021
VANCOUVER – St. Paul’s Foundation and Teck Resources Limited announced that Teck has made a $10 million donation to help build the emergency department at the new St. Paul’s Hospital at the Jim Pattison Medical Centre. Named the Teck Emergency Department, it will be a transformative and innovative model of care to support improved health outcomes for British Columbians.
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March 17, 2021
WINNIPEG – The province of Manitoba is investing $6.5 million over three years to replace technical systems used in healthcare facilities, including replacing current voice dictation and transcription services with more modern systems and upgrading the Provincial Health Contact Centre (PHCC)’s triage, call-recording and telephone systems, Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson (pictured) announced.
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December 9, 2020
SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life sciences organizations. Amazon HealthLake aggregates an organization’s complete data across various silos and disparate formats into a centralized AWS data lake and automatically normalizes this information using machine learning.
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December 2, 2020
KITCHENER, Ont. – Grand River Hospital leads the way as the first Canadian hospital to move data to the cloud. The effort began in 2018, when the hospital prepared to turn off its old systems and move to a new health information system (HIS) that would transform the way it delivers care.
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