TORONTO – A consortium of leading Canadian organizations has come together to launch Telewound Care Canada, a virtual care initiative designed to help patients connect with their care teams while reducing unnecessary travel and in-person care. Telewound Care Canada aims to implement virtually enabled models of wound care that will impact over one thousand wound patients in Ontario and Quebec by Summer 2021.
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TORONTO – Altima Dental, which operates dental clinics across Canada, has launched several virtual dental tools and partnered with software developers to make dental care more accessible and convenient to Canadians. Its most recent service is a virtual check-up and monitoring tool enabling patients to take photos of their mouths at home, have the images analyzed through AI software and assess the possible treatment options remotely.
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Indigenous citizens in Canada have a long history of being underserved by the healthcare system – often living in remote locations, they must frequently travel to get proper care. Even then, the attention they receive may be inappropriate or culturally insensitive, as exemplified by the recent case of Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman who died in a Quebec hospital after taking a video of staff insulting her.
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Toronto-based Dapasoft Inc. is one of many healthcare IT providers that have refocused their product development roadmap in response to the urgent needs of Canadian hospitals struggling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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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.
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