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August 9, 2017
TORONTO – Telus Health has announced the launch of MedDialog, a national clinical solution that allows doctors to communicate electronically with other physicians regarding the care of their patients directly from their electronic medical record (EMR) systems.
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June 21, 2017
TORONTO – North York General Hospital (NYGH) and Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) are creating a Joint Chief Information Officer (CIO) role to leverage the combined expertise, experience and purchasing power between the two organizations.
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February 1, 2017
HALIFAX – The IWK Health Centre has announced that Cineplex, in partnership with the hospital and the IWK Foundation, will be transforming the O.E. Smith Auditorium into a new theatre where patients and their families can watch movies and other entertainment.
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January 4, 2017
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers announced the company is expanding its informatics capabilities for point-of-care testing with the acquisition of Conworx Technology GmbH, a Berlin-based developer of point-of-care device interfaces and data management solutions.
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December 14, 2016
TORONTO – Orion Health announced that Mackenzie Health, based in Richmond Hill, Ont., has selected the company’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to better connect existing solutions and to build interfaces to new systems in an efficient and timely manner.
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September 21, 2016
KITCHENER, Ont. – An Ontario-based consortium of Think Research, CognisantMD, and the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) has been chosen to lead the design and deployment of a ground-breaking electronic referral (eReferral) platform for the Waterloo Wellington community.
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September 7, 2016
RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – Mackenzie Health is expanding its innovation strategy by partnering with Sodexo Canada to develop IT systems that manage service fulfillment tasks. The organizations will devise, test and evaluate technological solutions for call-centre operations, environmental services, patient transport, bio med and physical plant maintenance, central equipment distribution, security and patient food services.
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August 30, 2016
CTRL +E is Dr. Tunji Fatoye’s favourite computer shortcut these days. As unit director at Winnipeg’s Kildonan Medical Centre, he uses it when he’s seeing a patient for the first time and wants to know what drugs were prescribed previously. He uses it to check lab results, including diagnostic imaging services, urine and blood cultures, and smear tests. As of July 2016, he even uses it to learn about his patients’ recent hospital visits. Read More
July 20, 2016
TORONTO – Starting this summer, the Ontario Long Term Care Association will be leading a project funded by Canada Health Infoway to provide Ontario long-term care homes with secure access to residents’ electronic medical information from provincial and regional data sources.
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November 18, 2015
EDMONTON – A family doctor and a team of technologists have created an online referral system that keeps patients in the loop when they are referred to specialists for care. The South Side Patient Care Network tested the system this spring and 35 medical clinics have since signed on.
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