Healthcare

Canada Health Infoway is inviting Canadian innovators to join the ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge, which will run from September 2011 to March 2013 and offer financial awards to participants for achieving certain results.

Funding is now in place and work is underway on a $72-million plan to create a single electronic health record system across Toronto and the surrounding area.

Since 2005, CEO Brian Forster has guided OntarioMD, which manages eHealth Ontario’s electronic medical record (EMR) adoption program. His philosophy: If you make it fully functional, doctors will come—but we're not there yet.

Here's what’s new and key points that remain unchanged in the 2011 guidelines.

Fifty years after MedicAlert came to Canada, the company has more than one million Canadian members and says it continues to innovate when it comes to the way medical information is stored and communicated.

Many women with disabilities under misconception they do not need a test, others find physicians’ offices inconvenient, inaccessible.

After a false start, a project to deliver a nearly $1-billion facelift to Canada’s oldest hospital appears finally ready to roll.

Mohamed Mahmoud's research involved new drug delivery system capable of providing more constant, sustained delivery of treatment for cancer.