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Global challenge issued for ideas for better insulin delivery devices
Have you got an idea that could help shape the features and design of a next-generation insulin delivery device for people with diabetes? If so, Sanofi wants you to enter Ignite: The Diabetes Ideas Challenge.
EMRs have delivered over $1.3 billion in benefits: Infoway-funded study
TORONTO | With a two-fold increase in adoption since 2006, use of electronic medical records (EMRs) in community-based practices in Canada has yielded efficiency and patient care benefits valued at $1.3 billion, an independent study reveals.

Growth of telehealth outpaces other areas of eHealth: COACH report

Telehealth across Canada continues to grow as a mainstream method of healthcare delivery, outpacing many other areas of e-Health, with clinical service sessions jumping 55% to 289,747 between 2010 and 2012.
Needle-free syringes now available in Canada

QUEBC CITY | Needle-free Injex syringes are now available in Canada. They are distributed by Marketing Medical Canada.
Device for 3D scanning of human body introduced by Quebec firm

LEVIS, QUE. | Creaform Inc. has introduced the new Health Care Partner 3D Scanner, which the company says is the only handheld 3D scanner developed specifically for human body scanning.
Wolf EMR gains Infoway certification

TORONTO | The latest version of Telus Health's Wolf Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software (v2012.1), has achieved Canada Health Infoway EMR National Class certification.
Ontario First Nation group to use Nightingale EMR

WIKWEMIKONG, ONT. | Nightingale Informatix, a provider of cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services, has signed a $3-million, five-year agreement with Giiwednong Health Link, a health and information management joint venture between First Nation health organizations for the communities of Manitoulin Island and the North Shore of Lake Huron.
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Global challenge issued for ideas for better insulin delivery devices

EMRs have delivered over $1.3 billion in benefits: Infoway-funded study

Growth of telehealth outpaces other areas of eHealth: COACH report

Needle-free syringes now available in Canada

Device for 3D scanning of human body introduced by Quebec firm

Wolf EMR gains Infoway certification

Ontario First Nation group to use Nightingale EMR

Leading Edge: Supercomputing for safer insulin pumps

Leading Edge: PC partner

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