Technology

College grants first approval for a pharmacist-controlled, user-interactive remote dispensing unit.

Developing education tools and helping patients navigate online health information.

A free iPad application called MyHealthyWaist is now available – designed for health professionals by experts from the International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk of Université Laval in partnership with Nurun, an international interactive marketing agency.

York Central Hospital and Southlake Regional Health Centre are implementing the web-based Novari Surgical Access with Smart Wait system for wait list management, remote electronic operating room bookings and automation of provincial wait times reporting.

CAE Healthcare, a division of CAE, has acquired 100% of the shares of Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI), which specializes in medical simulation technologies and educational software, for US$130 million.

ANSI Accreditation Services has recognized CSA’s Montreal facility as the first official certification body facility in the world to be accredited to the third edition of a key safety standard for electro-medical equipment.

Kazuhiko Terashima, head of Toyohashi University of Technology’s new Center for Symbiotic Human Robotics Research in Toyohashi, Japan, is proposing “smart robots” for hospitals.

The federal government is supporting the development of a new cancer radiation therapy device that could lead to more precise and life-saving treatment methods.