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SickKids gets ready to deploy their new AI apps developed in-house

4 weeks ago | canhealth.com | Norm Tollinsky

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is poised to confirm its leadership in AI research with the introduction of several machine learning models for patient care. “We’re at the point now where we’re going to start turning on a bunch of solutions over the next year,” said Robert Greer, technical director of the SickKids AI initiative.
Communication problems at the root of radiology errors, prof says

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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.
Quebec solution helps reduce pressure on emergency departments

1 month ago | canhealth.com | Norm Tollinsky

Quebec’s Ministry of Health and Social Services has found a way to relieve the overcrowding of Emergency Departments (ED) and increase access to primary care. Using Petal Health’s Orchestration Platform, the ministry now has a province-wide, real-time view of primary care appointment availabilities that triage nurses in EDs can fill for non-urgent cases.
International Connectathon aims to improve health IT connectivity

1 month ago | 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

1 month ago | 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

2 months ago | 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

2 months ago | 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.