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Modular addition of CTs and MRIs cuts time to launch, reduces costs

1 month ago | canhealth.com | Norm Tollinsky

Kemptville District Hospital (KDH), a 40-bed, acute-care facility 50 kilometres south of Ottawa, has joined a growing list of hospitals opting for a prefabricated modular addition to house a new CT or MRI scanner. Supplied by SDI Canada and constructed offsite in Hamilton, the prefabricated modular cassettes can usually be delivered faster and at less cost than renovating or building an addition to a hospital onsite.
PEI to open tech-advanced medical school this year

1 month ago | canhealth.com | Norm Tollinsky

Twenty students selected to join the charter class at the University of Prince Edward Island’s (UPEI) new Faculty of Medicine and Interprofessional Health in August will be able to take advantage of an amazing collection of advanced medical learning technologies. “When it opens, it is going to be the most state-of-the-art medical education facility in the country,” affirmed faculty dean Dr. Preston Smith.
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.
SickKids gets ready to deploy their new AI apps developed in-house

2 months 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

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.
Quebec solution helps reduce pressure on emergency departments

Feb 27, 2025 | 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

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.