Technology

VANCOUVER | First Nations in British Columbia will soon have improved access to health and wellness services through expanded use of telehealth, according to the First Nations Health Authority, B.C. Ministry of Health and Canada Health Infoway.

BURLINGTON, Ont. | After an intensive evaluation of seven PACS suppliers, Joseph Brant Hospital has ordered a Carestream Vue PACS and zero-footprint Vue Motion mobile image viewer to provide fully featured on-site and off-site reading and viewing of images and reports by radiologists, clinicians and referring physicians.

Do you tweet? Facebook? Blog? Do your patients read about their medications on Wikipedia or diagnose themselves using WebMD? Social media has become the “new normal.

TUCSON, Ariz. | Ventana Medical Systems Inc., a member of the Roche Group, has entered into an agreement with data storage and IT infrastructure industry company EMC Corp. to offer a highly scalable and flexible solution to store and archive medical images as part of the Ventana digital pathology solution for anatomical pathology labs.

TORONTO | A new incident and patient feedback reporting app, RL6:Mobile, has been inmtroduced by RL Solutions, creator of healthcare quality and safety software.

ABBOTT PARK, Ill. | Abbott has announced that the Xience Xpeditio Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System has received Health Canada approval and is launching immediately in Canada.

TORONTO | COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association has just published the 2013 CPHIMS-CA Canadian Health Informatics Review and Reference Guide.

MONTREAL | EMcision International, a Montreal-based company specializing in advanced radiofrequency-based medical devices used in surgery, has sold its first units of the Habib RF DUO 13 catheter. This is a new device designed to help abdominal cancer patients.