TIMMINS, Ont. – The Timmins and District Hospital is in the market for a new nurse call bell system. The hospital opened in 1993 and officials say parts for the current nurse call bell system are obsolete. Jason Laneville (pictured), executive director of the Timmins and District Hospital Foundation, said technology has advanced quite a bit in 30 years.
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TORONTO – With 85% of its 16,000 employees working in home and community healthcare across Canada, Bayshore Healthcare has designed a user-friendly app to improve the employee experience of its mobile healthcare workforce. The new app, One Bayshore, enables seamless communication across the organization and provides mobile healthcare workers with access to important information at their fingertips.
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PARIS, France – Withings – pioneers of the connected health revolution – has announced that ScanWatch, its globally-acclaimed and most medically advanced wearable, has received FDA clearance.
With state-of-the-art technology that can monitor heart rate, atrial fibrillation through ECG, breathing disturbances, blood oxygen levels through SpO2, sleep, and physical activity, it has already impacted countless lives around the world since its launch in Europe and Australia and is now also available in North America.
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Rogers for Business, the last of Canada’s big three telecommunications companies to exit the paging business, is now working with Hypercare Inc. to promote the latter’s smartphone-based communications solution to healthcare systems across the country.
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OTTAWA – Millions of Canadians can now have faster access to the mental health support services they need following the launch of iHealthOX, a new employee benefits system and app that uses proprietary technology, personal health data and online healthcare teams to match patients with mental healthcare providers across Canada, often the same day.
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TORONTO – Nurosene Health Inc. has announced the successful closing of its initial public offering of common shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol “MEND”. The offering enabled the company to raise $9.2 million. Nurosene Health Inc. is a technology-driven wellness company focused on providing healthy habits focused on the mind, body and brain to improve daily mental wellness and overall brain health.
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Clinicians at the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance in southwestern Ontario are surrendering their pagers in favour of a smartphone and web-based messaging and scheduling solution from Toronto-based Hypercare Inc.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Vocera Communications, Inc. , a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, announced that Lake of the Woods District Hospital (LWDH) in Kenora, Ontario is deploying intelligent communication solutions from Vocera to help protect and connect care teams now and beyond COVID-19.
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TORONTO – Michael Garron Hospital – formerly the Toronto East General – has deployed Hypercare, an enterprise-wide messaging system that allows clinicians to communicate with each other through an instant messaging app installed on their phones. Hypercare enables users to securely share clinical information and manage medical on-call schedules.
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OTTAWA – The Ottawa Hospital has launched Epic-in-a-box, a briefcase-like package that allows staff and professionals to visit patients in their homes or at long-term care centres and easily access the hospital’s electronic health record system through a secure cell-phone connection.
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