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Infoway awards cash to social media campaigns

November 19, 2014

Fraser Ratchford TORONTO – Canada Health Infoway has announced the winners of its Public Health Social Media Challenge. The Public Health Social Media Challenge, the latest initiative in the Infoway ImagineNation Challenge series, was designed to support public health organizations in a quest to harness the power of social media to address public health issues and concerns. Teams with the most ‘infectious’ social media campaigns were eligible to share awards and incentives. Read More

Application connects doctors in private networks

By Jerry Zeidenberg

September 3, 2014

HALIFAX – Many Canadian doctors have installed electronic health records to improve the way they care for patients. Some physicians have even created connections to local labs and hospitals to speed up the flow of information. However, something that was largely overlooked was improving the simple task of communicating between the doctors themselves – most of them still rely on phone and fax, a slow and laborious method at best. Read More

Patrick Dempsey partners with CrowdMed

May 21, 2014

Patrick Dempsey SAN FRANCISCO – CrowdMed, an online crowd-sourced medical diagnosis platform that helps solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases, announced that Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey (pictured) has made an investment in the company. Almost one in 10 Americans – and 350 million people globally – are affected by the approximately 7,000 different types of rare or difficult-to-diagnose medical conditions. With this investment, Dempsey is working with CrowdMed to help expand the platform and give an additional resource to those facing undiagnosed illnesses. Read More

Forum on social media in health explodes on Twitter

March 5, 2014

VANCOUVER – A public forum on how social media could be used to connect the general public with health professionals and health policy makers, held in Vancouver in February, generated more than 1.5 million impressions on Twitter and trended strongly in Canada that night. Read More