Jerry Zeidenberg

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Publisher and Editor at Canadian Healthcare Technology

Publisher & editor of Canadian Healthcare Technology. Fan of film noir and PG Wodehouse.

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Agentic AI will soon benefit health organizations, Workday summit speakers say

1 month ago | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

Workday conducted a Toronto summit in April that advised healthcare executives about upcoming developments in AI, human resources and enterprise resource planning systems. CTO Kalan Comba kicked off the event, noting that Workday is now an $8.4 billion company that supports 70 million active workers around the world. “We understand workers,” he observed.
Pharmacogenomic systems being integrated into the electronic record

1 month ago | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

Electronic RecordsBy Jerry ZeidenbergMay 1, 2025LAS VEGAS – Two forward-thinking organizations described how they’re integrating genomic data into their MEDITECH electronic health records during the HIMSS conference in March. Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, based in Whitby, Ontario, near Toronto, and Frederick Health, located outside Baltimore, Maryland, have both made strides in capturing and using personalized data for clinical decision support.
Communication problems at the root of radiology errors, prof says

2 months ago | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

DiagnosticsBy Jerry ZeidenbergMarch 31, 2025Unfortunately, mistakes happen in medicine & up to 100,000 deaths occur annually in the United States due to medical errors, according to studies, and a proportionate number happen in Canada, as well. While medication errors and misdiagnosis are major root causes, the top cause of preventable errors are communication breakdowns.
Universal translator aims to connect data across Canada

2 months ago | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

HAMILTON, ONT. – A team at Hamilton Health Sciences is leading the charge to devise a ‘universal translator’, a set of technologies that will allow the electronic records used by hospitals, doctors’ offices and other medical organizations to talk to each other more easily. The Centre for Data Science and Digital Health, also known as CREATE, says it’s well along the road to producing the foundational technologies that will enable the interoperability of digital health records across the country.
International Connectathon aims to improve health IT connectivity

Feb 27, 2025 | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

Writing about Canadian healthcare in the February 7, 2025 edition of the Globe and Mail, columnist Andre Picard states: “Our health information systems are pitiful, marked by a lack of access and interoperability.”Ouch! To be sure, Canada’s unconnected EMRs and EHRs have driven doctors to exhaustion by forcing them to search for data in countless repositories. They report spending excessive hours looking for computerized information – something that has contributed to physician burnout.
MEDITECH’s Traverse Exchange connects Ontario hospitals and LTC

Feb 27, 2025 | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

To help break down the silos of patient data and connect clinicians to the information they need, MEDITECH last year launched Traverse Exchange Canada in Ontario. The network now ties together 43 hospitals using MEDITECH, allowing them to more easily transfer data. What’s more, the system is also connected to over 300 long-term care homes using PointClickCare and all 60 Oracle/Cerner EHR customers in Ontario via the Oracle eHub. Connections to hospitals running on Epic have now begun.
Kingston Health Sciences among first to use portable MRI in the ICU

Jan 30, 2025 | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

KINGSTON, ONT. – Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has taken delivery of a portable MRI machine and soon plans to deploy it in its Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It’s just the ninth device of its kind to be used in Canada and only the second to be implemented in an ICU – the first is currently in use at St. Michael’s Hospital, in Toronto. The portable MRI, called the Swoop, is produced by Hyperfine Inc., in the United States and distributed in Canada by Upcare Partners of Toronto.
Get ready for joint replacements, other implants that transmit data

Jan 30, 2025 | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

TORONTO – Medical innovator Dr. Bill Hunter points out that a revolution in medical technology is occurring, including sleek, multi-armed surgical robots from Intuitive Surgical, Medtronic, Zimmer Biomet and others that are being steadily deployed by ORs around the world. However, the follow-up procedure for most patients hasn’t changed in years – it’s an old-fashioned, analog process. “We’re still using questionnaires to ask patients after their surgeries, ‘How are you feeling’,” said Dr. Hunter.
Annual OntarioMD conference highlights the growing use of AI scribes

Nov 1, 2024 | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. – Many of the discussions at the annual OntarioMD conference – held in September – focused on AI Scribes for doctors. Seems these newfangled solutions, powered by ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI, actually work! They’re saving doctors who try them hours of administrative toil, as they’ve got the smarts to do a lot on their own.
GoAutomate brings AI, financial-sector tech know-how to healthcare

Nov 1, 2024 | canhealth.com | Jerry Zeidenberg

TORONTO – GoAutomate is developing AI-based solutions that are designed to improve workflow in diagnostic imaging departments, which often get bogged down with faxes and paper-based processes. They’re also slowed down by mistakes in documents that are sent electronically. All of these documents regularly contain missing or incorrect data, and staff must fill in the blanks and fix the incorrect information – a time-consuming and tedious process.