TORONTO – PracticalApps.ca, a new website to help family doctors advise patients about health-related mobile apps, was launched this week by Dr. Ed Brown (pictured), chief executive officer of the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN).
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CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – CellTrak Technologies, provider of a leading mobile healthcare delivery and management solution, announced its support to further develop the University Health Network’s Medly program. Medly is used at over 4,000 home care locations and is a collection of applications designed to help patients manage their chronic disease conditions.
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In what its developers liken to opening a virtual mall, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has launched a new, free iPhone app that provides users with fingertip access to a range of healthcare information, including emergency department wait times.
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TORONTO – The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Memotext Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and commercialize an app for people with schizophrenia.
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TORONTO – Akira, a mobile platform that connects patients to family doctors on demand, has been launched to bring patients one-on-one consultations straight from their smartphone.
Available for download on Android and iOS, the app allows patients in Ontario to consult with board-certified physicians by secure mobile text or video, and provides users mobile access to personal health records including clinical notes, prescriptions and test results.
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You may think you’ve invented the next great, transformative healthcare app. And maybe you have. But when it comes time to move your idea beyond your test group so the entire hospital, community, province or country can benefit, what then? Do you have the foundation and resources to navigate your way through the complexities of security, privacy and interoperability that follow?
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TORONTO – The Centre for Global eHealth Innovation is on the verge of releasing a new version of its Medly app that can monitor patients with two or more chronic conditions. Medly was first designed and released for heart failure patients.
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TORONTO – The Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre has partnered with SeamlessMD to introduce a mobile app that patients can use to self-manage their recovery at home after hip or knee replacement surgery. The Holland Centre, part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, is Canada’s largest joint replacement centre, performing over 2,200 surgeries annually.
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KITCHENER-WATERLOO, Ont. – BlackBerry Limited announced that Grand River Hospital has chosen BlackBerry 10 smartphones, BBM Protected, and BES 12: a multi-OS EMM solution by BlackBerry, to enable secure communications for their clinicians and staff.
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In 2014, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) implemented a patient flow dashboard tool to improve patient outcomes and increase organizational efficiency. The tool, developed by Oculys Health Informatics, quickly helped the organization have a real-time visual picture of the needs of patients in the Emergency Department (ED) waiting to be admitted while also providing an indication of bed capacity at a glance.
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