Integration

HAMILTON, ON – St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) and St. Joseph’s Villa in Dundas, Ont., have launched a project showing how patient health data can be better shared between acute care hospitals and long-term care partners. While both organizations already collaborate under St. Joseph’s Health System (SJHS), the hospital makes use of the Epic health information system, while long-term care centre employs PointClickCare. Read More

TORONTO – OntarioMD’s award-winning digital health service, Health Report Manager (HRM), has been enhanced to help physicians make better informed decisions for their patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

HALIFAX, N.S. – Halifax-based Densitas Inc., a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for digital mammography, announced that Prince Edward Island (PEI) has integrated its Health Canada-licensed automated breast density software, densitas densityai™, into the PEI breast screening program. As a result, every woman who receives a screening mammogram on the island will be notified of her breast density through the software’s AI-powered algorithm that standardizes density reporting and supports uniform care. Read More

WHITBY, ON – Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores), The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (The Royal) and Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (Waypoint) have implemented a unified and upgraded health information system (HIS) to provide seamless care to patients across the three hospitals. Read More

MONTREAL – Walmart Canada announced that it has selected TELUS Health’s next generation pharmacy management solution (PMS), Ubik, for all of its Accès pharma franchised locations across the province of Quebec. The province-wide rollout is modernizing 68 locations so patients in Quebec can access more clinical health services while pharmacists streamline operations management and collaborate digitally with other healthcare professionals within a connected healthcare ecosystem. Read More

TORONTO – Now is your opportunity to have your voice heard on one of the most pressing issues of our day – healthcare interoperability. Take five-minutes to be a part of an important research initiative and complete a short survey on the challenges and opportunities assigned to interoperability. The Angus Reid survey is supported by Orion Health and all information provided will be treated as confidential. Take the survey here: https://surveys.angusreidforum.com/WebProd/cgi-bin/askiaext.dll?Action=StartSurvey&SurveyName=MAV2019-Q000-114&o=2 Read More

With strong pressure to innovate and disrupt healthcare delivery, Canadian practices are increasingly looking to technology to become more efficient and patient-focused. While digital health solutions have traditionally connected healthcare providers, today the focus has shifted to extending this connectivity to patients and their primary care team. Read More

MONTREAL – Enovacom announced that it has developed a driver to use the Enovacom Integration Engine solution for integrating HL7v2 messages and FHIR requests with the Google Cloud Healthcare API. The Enovacom Integration Engine has been able to demonstrate its capacity in these processes and thus allows the integration of data from different IHE formats into Google Cloud Healthcare APIs. Read More

TORONTO, Ont. – Sensory Technologies Inc. (Sensory Tech) is pleased to announce that the Chatham Kent EMS community paramedic team will soon be able to view real time patient care information, enhancing decision-making when in a patient’s home, through access to eShift. During each community paramedic visit the details will be documented using the eShift chart feature and be made available to authorized members of the community of care. This new functionality will enable directing clinicians in the region to have updated records of care with real time data regardless of patient diagnoses or referral source. Read More

TORONTO – Orion Health, a leader in population health management and healthcare integration solutions, announced that Alberta’s Community Information Integration (CII) Program has gone live. Patient information is now flowing from an early adopter primary care clinic, powered securely from a remote cloud infrastructure by Orion Health’s Software as a Service (SaaS) in a managed private cloud setting. Read More