TORONTO – Canada Health Infoway, in partnership with Accreditation Canada, has announced seven LEADing Practice award recipients. These organizations were recognized for their leadership in the advanced use of technology in clinical practice. The award is part of Infoway’s pan-Canadian Knowing is Better clinician education campaign, developed to generate awareness of the benefits of digital health in Canada.
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NEW YORK – Shares of Castlight Health Inc. surged in their first day of trading, after the health-plan software maker’s initial public offering raised more money than expected. The San Francisco company’s stock more than doubled to $37.50, up 134% from the $16-a-share offer price available to buyers in the IPO – typically large investors like mutual funds and hedge funds.
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The three-day Hacking Health Toronto event held at the city’s MaRS Centre late last fall sounded more to the uninitiated like a continuing medical education course for pulmonary specialists than a high-energy collaborative for aspiring medtech innovators – all out to heal the healthcare system’s many ills – matched up with seasoned, willing-to-help mentors.
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ARMONK, N.Y. – IBM announced that it is turning its Watson technology into the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive innovations. As part of the move, it will also plow up to $100 million into venture investments that make use of Watson’s analytical technologies.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Deb Group announced that it will introduce its DebMed GMS (Group Monitoring System) into Canada, starting in May. The system can monitor the use of soap and sanitizer in a ward or work environment, including at the point-of-care, and report on compliance rates in real-time.
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TORONTO – After banding together late last year to share and promote their in-house innovations, six Toronto-area hospitals demonstrated the initiatives in January at an exposition, called InnovationEX, which attracted the provincial health minister, Deb Matthews (pictured, on right), as well as a crowd of participants.
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MONTREAL – Hacking Health will hold an event on February 21-23 at CHU Sainte-Justine, in which doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals and health system administrators, will collaborate with computer scientists, technologists, programmers and designers in the creation of digital solutions to improve the health of mothers and their children in Quebec and the rest of the world.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected healthcare, and the Intelligent Hospital, a subsidiary of the RFID in Healthcare Consortium, have announced that InterSystems HealthShare will be the official health informatics platform for the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion at HIMSS 2014 in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 23-26, 2014.
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SAN FRANCISCO – CAE Healthcare, of Montreal, unveiled the CAE Fidelis Maternal Fetal Simulator at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), the world’s largest annual conference dedicated to healthcare simulation.
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TORONTO – Shift Health Paradigms, a healthcare startup transforming medical data collection from hospital waiting rooms, announced it is the first Canadian company to join StartUp Health (www.startuphealth.com), a global startup platform. The Canadian digital health company, which has created an innovative solution called TickiT, was selected out of more than 1,400 applicants to become part of the exclusive three-year StartUp Health Academy.
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