SYDNEY, N.S. – Aging surgical and radiological technologies in Cape Breton – and across Canada – mean that patients are often receiving less than optimal care. “The old technologies are on their way out,” said Dr. Victor Hugo (pictured), an anesthesiologist at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital. “It is hard to get parts and get maintenance on them.”
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HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s hospitals need a quick injection of $85 million to repair crumbling walls, pipes and elevators, says the province’s auditor general. As well, Michael Pickup (pictured) said concentrating care in the province’s hospitals is something that won’t be viable in the long run.
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TORONTO – Microsoft Canada announced that the Microsoft Cloud is now officially available using datacenters based in Toronto and Quebec City. The offerings include the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, which supports a wide variety of programming languages, tools and frameworks, and the Office 365 suite of productivity apps and programs.
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MONTREAL – McGill Healthcare Infrastructure Group (MHIG), a partnership composed of SNC-Lavalin and Innisfree, announced that it has filed a $330 million lawsuit against the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the Government of Quebec.
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OAKVILLE, Ont. – Halton Healthcare announced the new Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) is now using a real-time location system (RTLS) to help improve security, safety and operational efficiency.
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QUEBEC CITY – The Quebec government has announced it will set aside $16 million to acquire land and develop clinical plans for a new $800-million regional hospital in Vaudreuil-Dorion, just west of Montreal.
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PETERBOROUGH, ONT. – What may be the first comprehensive Vendor Neutral Archive in Canada is currently being installed at Peterborough Regional Health Centre, just east of Toronto. The $2.5 million implementation not only replaces an eight-year-old radiology PACS, but it will provide storage and advanced reporting tools for cardiology studies, as well as DICOM and non-DICOM images from all other ‘ologies’ in the hospital, such as pathology and dermatology.
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SARNIA – Bluewater Health is installing a new system that will monitor the location of equipment, and in the future, staff and patients too. The bluetooth-powered real-time location service (RTLS) is coming to Bluewater Health sites in Sarnia and Petrolia within the next nine months.
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RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – Royal Philips and Mackenzie Health, a regional healthcare provider serving Southwest York Region in Ontario, have announced a $300 million, 18-year large scale alliance that will advance Mackenzie Health’s medical technology procurement and maintenance programs for the existing Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital and the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, which will be completed in 2019.
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EDMONTON – A complete overhaul of the Royal Alexandra Hospital campus would be a historically expensive project, costing $4.5 billion, according to Alberta Health Services.
“That’s a big number by itself, but the project itself is staged over a long period of time and phased over a long period,” David Mador (pictured), vice president of AHS and the medical director for northern Alberta, told Global News.
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