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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WATERLOO, Ont. – BlackBerry, a global leader in mobile communications, announced that CarePartners has chosen CellTrak’s VisitManager solution, running on BlackBerry 10 smartphones and managed by BES12, a multi-OS EMM solution by BlackBerry, to mobilize their home care providers.
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With the increasing demand driven by Canada’s aging population, home care organizations have to wring more and more efficiencies out of a mobile and often remote workforce. Despite the obvious opportunity for mobile technology to streamline workflow, until recently, home care has been a largely paper-and-fax-based industry.
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MONTREAL – Reception for mobile devices will be spotty inside the new MUHC super-hospital when it opens next month and won’t be fully operational for some time, CBC News is reporting.
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WATERLOO, Ont. and RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – BlackBerry Limited, a global leader in mobile communications, and Mackenzie Health, a regional healthcare provider serving a population of more than half a million people, have announced that Mackenzie Health will use the new BlackBerry Classic within their organization.
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Many companies have produced mobile solutions that monitor the health of patients with chronic diseases – innovative solutions for tracking diabetes, COPD and heart failure have scored notable successes in the past few years.
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One of the challenges for physical rehabilitation is efficiently collecting real-time information about patient movements and body position, within and outside the clinic, to determine the most appropriate diagnosis and treatment. While research into computing and mobility technologies can involve esoteric and specialized hardware, we’ve recently developed software using a ubiquitous technology: smartphones.
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In 2012, Dr. Joshua Landy, a busy intensive care specialist at Scarborough General Hospital in Toronto, was catching up with two friends over dinner. Today, the three are cofounders of Figure 1 Inc., a start-up that recently raised $2 million in seed funding to grow its healthcare photo sharing app.
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