Infrastructure

WINNIPEG – A $61-million addition to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre is $14 million over budget and won’t be completed until 2019, five years after its original due date. Read More

SARNIA, Ont. – Dramatic increases in Ontario’s electricity costs have led to a 40 percent increase in hydro bills over five years at Bluewater Health, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). Read More

TORONTO – Canada’s only not-for-profit organization dedicated to managing healthcare equipment service contracts, Canadian Medical Equipment Protection Plan (CMEPP), is pleased to announce that over $2.5 million dollars has been saved for hospitals in the 2016-2017 fiscal year. Read More

TORONTO – North York General Hospital (NYGH), one of Canada’s leading medical facilities, has deployed Pure Storage to host all of its mission-critical applications and patient data. The hospital now hosts its Cerner electronic health record (EHR) applications on Pure Storage all-flash arrays. Read More

TORONTO – The Scarborough and Rouge Hospital has implemented a new Aruba gigabit wireless network to bring better efficiencies to nurses and physicians. The new wireless network – which is the first complete Wave 2 hospital deployment in Canada – will also ensure that the hospital can accommodate future use cases and applications including Internet of Things (IoT) and indoor location services. Aruba is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Read More

MONTREAL – Shriners Hospitals for Children – Canada has inaugurated its Motion Analysis Centre (MAC), a facility that uses state-of-the-art technology to evaluate the functional deficits associated with gait in children and, to a lesser extent, to detect the origin of possible functional deficits. Read More

CALGARY – DIRTT and its Middle East partner NMG Solutions installed a two-story state-of-the-art medical interior in just three days for Arab Health Congress and Exhibition in Dubai, with a construction method that eases some of the Middle East’s most pressing building challenges. Read More

OTTAWA and TORONTO – Orion Health, a leader in population health management and healthcare integration solutions, announced that The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) has selected Rhapsody Integration Engine to replace its legacy engine. Rhapsody will serve as a long-term solution that will aid in reaching the goal of high quality, patient-centered care, while continuously adapting to integrate with new solutions. Read More

WHITEHORSE, YT – Yukon Hospital Corp. has selected Terra Nova Transcription, of St. John’s, NL as its transcription overflow partner for its largest acute care facility, the Whitehorse General Hospital (WGH). Read More

MONTREAL – Ste-Justine Hospital has opened an advanced birthing facility, along with a new research centre, operating rooms and other clinical spaces. Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette (pictured), who inaugurated the spacious facilities, praised Ste-Justine for its forward-thinking approach in seeking to expand and modernize. Read More