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VICTORIA, BC – Cancer patients on Vancouver Island who are receiving both chemotherapy and radiation therapy for head and neck or lung cancer are now able to be monitored at home in a first-of-its-kind project. Read More

THUNDER BAY, Ont. – The Thunder Bay Regional Health Centre announced the start of a Virtual Emergency Department offering same-day online assessments with ED physicians. The program is available to people living in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area who are older than 17 years of age, have a non-life-threatening medical issue, and either don’t have a primary care provider or are unable to obtain timely access to one. Read More

TORONTO – Jack Nathan Medical Corp. announced an agreement to acquire Writi Inc., the developer of Writi, a cloud-based medication-management software platform, available on mobile devices and web platforms. Writi supports secure digital communication, record maintenance and workflow of resident-related orders and documentation in long-term care homes. Read More

TORONTO – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has announced the creation of the Digital and Virtual Care Taskforce, led by Dr. Ilana Halperin (pictured on left) and Sivan Keren Young (pictured on right) and reporting to Sunnybrook’s Senior Leadership Team. While the hospital and healthcare sector in general have been exploring digital advances in healthcare for some time, the arrival of COVID-19 last year generated a rapid investment in virtual care solutions across Canada. Read More

TORONTO – Tele-therapy company MindBeacon Holdings Inc. has gone public on the Toronto Stock Exchange, raising $65 million to fuel its growth. The shares were issued at $8 each, and closed on the first day of trading at $11.10, up 39%. Read More

SUDBURY, Ont. – Health Sciences North has launched its Virtual Emergency Department, a first for a hospital in Northern Ontario. HSN’s Virtual ED service is available Monday through Friday, and patients with non-life-threatening conditions can log onto www.hsnsudbury.ca/virtualed and fill out a form requesting a same-day appointment, in French or English, with an Emergency Department physician. Read More

VANCOUVER – Sound returned to Alan Holt’s world in late 2017 when surgeons at St. Paul’s Hospital inserted a cochlear implant (CI) into his right ear. Music, bird song and the laughter of his grandchildren returned to his life after years of diminished hearing, caused by a career in a noisy Sunshine Coast pulp and paper mill. Things eventually deteriorated to the point where hearing aids he used were no longer effective. Read More

TORONTO – As part of Ontario’s continued response to the COVID-19 outbreak and in alignment with the Digital First for Health Strategy, Ontario is investing $14.5 million to support the expansion of virtual care for Ontario Health Teams and frontline home and community care service providers. Read More

TORONTO – Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk (pictured) said in her 2020 Annual Report that the Ontario Ministry of Health does not have long-term goals and targets for virtual care, adding progress has continued to be slow in integrating virtual care into Ontario’s healthcare system – despite the progress made during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

TORONTO – LifeLabs has launched of a new virtual care offering on its customer portal in Ontario. Developed by Excelleris, a division of LifeLabs, this feature will connect over 2.6 million Ontario residents with a healthcare provider anywhere an internet connection is available through one of three virtual care providers. Read More