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January 8, 2020
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.
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January 8, 2020
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.
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November 6, 2019
TORONTO – Ontario announced the province will invest up to $60 million to support the construction of the Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre, a new, state-of-the-art facility dedicated to brain and mental health at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
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October 30, 2019
Virtual care – the practice of offering remote healthcare services through communications technology – offers a practical way for patients to access a healthcare team regardless of their location. And as technologies evolve, there are more options that allow virtual care to rival the effectiveness of traditional medicine – for example, through videoconferencing and the addition of remote instruments. Read More
October 8, 2019
MONTREAL – The massive computer crash at the McGill University Health Centre earlier this month was caused by two malfunctions in quick succession, rendering the back-up system powerless and resulting in the cancellation of a dozen surgeries as well as medical procedures involving nearly 40 other patients.
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September 25, 2019
WINNIPEG – A massive, province-wide online health system crash occurred in Manitoba the first week of September, incapacitating computers for about 36 hours. The outage was triggered by one server going down, Manitoba’s health minister says, followed by a chain of failures that brought down more than 60 systems in every regional health authority in the province.
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June 12, 2019
TORONTO – An unprecedented gift of $100 million has been donated by the Peter Gilgan Foundation to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). This is the largest single gift ever to SickKids. Together with donations made to other hospitals and healthcare organizations to date, this makes Peter Gilgan and the Peter Gilgan Foundation the largest benefactor to healthcare in Canada.
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May 22, 2019
SIOUX LOOKOUT, ONT. – As the Lab Manager for Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre (SLMHC), Brenda Voth understands the pressure to deliver timely and decisive lab results, just one of the many demands of an acute care hospital lab. Read More
May 22, 2019
RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – Mackenzie Health has signed an agreement with leading medical technology provider Hill-Rom to bring “smart” beds to its hospitals – an existing facility in Richmond Hill and a new hospital, currently under construction in nearby Vaughan and slated for opening in late 2020.
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April 29, 2019
TORONTO – Demand for information from users inside hospitals – and from partners and patients logging into portals outside the facilities – is “becoming insatiable”, as one healthcare executive at Microsoft’s recent “Future Now” conference put it. Read More