Technology

About two million people and 2,500 healthcare providers across the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) and Waterloo Wellington (WW) local health integration networks (LHINs) in southern Ontario will benefit from a $5 million eHealth Ontario investment in ClinicalConnect.

Siemens Canada Healthcare has received a Health Canada medical device licence for the Biograph mMR, a fully integrated whole-body molecular MR with simultaneous magnetic resonance (MR) and positron emission tomography (PET) data acquisition.

Osteoporosis Canada and PatientOrderSets.com have announced a partnership to deliver improved healthcare to Canadians with osteoporosis through PatientOrderSets.com's national network of more than 150 hospitals.

Alberta Health Services has begun to post wait times online for four Calgary hospital emergency departments. Updated every two minutes, the times reflect the estimated wait from assessment by a triage nurse to the moment a patient gets to see a physician at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, Foothills Medical Centre, Peter Lougheed Centre and Rockyview General Hospital.

Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie, Ont., is bringing state-of-the-art robotic technology to its Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre. It is the first hospital in the country to install the Robotic Intravenous Automation System, or RIVA.

TELUS Health Solutions is expanding its electronic medical record (EMR) ecosystem within Canada. Adding to agreements with three other leading EMR providers, Optimed Software Corporation will connect its flagship Accuro EMR to TELUS Health Space. This integration will allow patients and providers to access and share health information online from any location at any time over any device.

We Care Home Health Services has received Accreditation Canada’s Leading Practice Award for the implementation of technology that significantly improves the safety of frontline staff while reducing their administrative tasks.