Infrastructure

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. Read More

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. Read More

TORONTO – Microsoft announced that Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will be generally available on October 30, 2020, including managed services designed to support healthcare organizations. This integrated solution enables customers to quickly access a portfolio of released and new healthcare capabilities tailored to the unique requirements of health data in the cloud. Read More

DAWSON CREEK, BC – A brand new, state-of-the-art Dawson Creek and District hospital will be built, the provincial government announced. With approval of the business plan, the project will now proceed to procurement. Construction is expected to begin late 2021 and the new hospital is anticipated to be open to patients in fall 2025. Read More

OAKVILLE, ON – Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) and Siemens Healthineers are starting the process of procuring 129 newer and better tools to support diagnostic imaging, advanced therapies, and monitoring equipment essential to patient care. The equipment will be delivered over the next 12 months. Read More

VICTORIA – The Province of British Columbia has partnered with the Digital Technology Supercluster and the Business Council of British Columbia to create the COVID-19 Supply Hub, a made-in-B.C. online platform to co-ordinate, source and expedite medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for provincial health authorities to support front-line health workers fighting COVID-19. Read More

OTTAWA – In a matter of weeks, spurred by the COVID-19 crisis, The Ottawa Hospital has gone from 3,000 active users of the Teams platform to 5,000. Teams is enabling clinicians and staff throughout the multi-site hospital to work more closely, even when apart, through the use of the platform’s secure instant texting, group communications, document sharing, and videoconferencing. Read More

HAMILTON, Ont. – Hamilton Health Sciences, one of Canada’s premier teaching and research hospitals, has entered into a strategic relationship with Siemens Healthineers in Canada worth approximately $270 million. For a contract lifetime of 15 years, with the option to extend the partnership for an additional 10 years, Siemens Healthineers will help Hamilton Health Sciences manage its medical imaging equipment and assist the hospital in raising the quality of care for patients. Read More

TORONTO – Philanthropists and business leaders Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman (pictured) joined University of Toronto President Meric Gertler, Chancellor Rose Patten, Vector Institute President and CEO Garth Gibson and other university and community leaders to break ground on the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre. Read More

FREDERICTON, N.B. – The New Brunswick government is looking at ways to centralize hospital laboratories, including a proposal that would see the number of facilities slashed by more than half. A request for proposals in November is aimed at finding private-sector management consultants who can develop a plan to consolidate 20 hospital labs into as few as seven. Read More