June 19, 2024
OTTAWA – The Canadian Medical Association (CMA), MD Financial Management Inc. (MD) and Scotiabank are pleased to announce the recipients of the Health Care Unburdened Grant program, a $10-million grant program to support innovative solutions to enhance patient care by reducing administrative work and improving processes and practices in healthcare.
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May 8, 2024
VANCOUVER, BC – WELL Health Technologies Corp., a digital health company, and its investee company, HEALWELL AI, are pleased to announce the launch of the second generation WELL AI Decision Support (“WAIDS”). This enhanced version features advanced chronic disease screening and arrives just six months after the initial launch, which was primarily focused on rare disease detection.
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April 17, 2024
VANCOUVER – WELL Health Clinic Network Inc., a subsidiary of WELL Health Technologies Corp. – a digital healthcare company – is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement with Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. to acquire all of the primary care medical clinics operated by Shoppers under the name “The Health Clinic by Shoppers”.
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April 10, 2024
OTTAWA – Reducing the administrative burden in healthcare is critical if we want physicians and other members of the healthcare team to thrive and have more time to do what they do best – provide safe and high-quality care to patients and families. Health Excellence Canada (HEC) is now joining a major effort to find solutions for clinicians.
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March 27, 2024
KITCHENER, Ont. – The latest innovation from eCE Automates, Poppy, has now reached out to over 13.5K patients in East Toronto to automatically book cancer screenings using the records of family physicians. Early findings have shown an increase in screening rates since the bot was deployed.
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March 4, 2024
Toronto-based start-up KeyOps has created an online platform that enables pharma companies to interact with physicians online, instead of the old-fashioned method of time-consuming lunches, dinners and off-site presentations and Q&A sessions. By alerting physicians to online surveys, which they can complete in a matter of minutes, doctors gain extra dollars in compensation and the pharmaceutical companies obtain valuable insights from key influencers. Read More
March 4, 2024
March is Fraud Prevention Month. Rosemary Rofail, a pharmacist in the Greater Toronto Area, discusses the challenges pharmacists face in curtailing prescription fraud and how implementing PrescribeIT® can help. Read More
November 15, 2023
HALIFAX – Sparrow Bioacoustics has been honored with winning the Best Tech Award at the annual Tech Forward 2023 Awards. The accolade celebrates Sparrow Bioacoustics’ revolutionary Stethophone, the first-ever FDA-cleared smartphone stethoscope.
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November 1, 2023
EDMONTON – My Viva Inc., a leading digital health provider, and LMC Healthcare, a renowned provider of comprehensive diabetes and cardio-metabolic care, announce a collaboration to implement an LMC-specific instance of the cutting-edge My Viva Plan to support patients living with diabetes.
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September 20, 2023
TORONTO – The Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) has been successfully deployed to more than 6,000 clinicians across Ontario who use OMD-certified electronic medical record (EMR) systems. These clinicians now have secure and real-time access from within their EMR to comprehensive dispensed patient information for drugs covered by the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program and the Narcotics Monitoring System.
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