QUEBEC CITY – Lime Health, a Quebec-based B Corp certified company and leader in patient experience measurement, announced the closing of a financing through a group of private investors, Desjardins […]

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TORONTO – A new report, written by Will Falk (pictured) and published by CSA Group, argues that accelerated, supervised adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in healthcare is both necessary […]

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. president Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was nominating Dr Nicole B Saphier (pictured) as his pick for surgeon general. Saphier is a radiologist and […]

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CALGARY – A new study out of the University of Calgary, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal , found that nearly all Canadian physicians use electronic health records, but […]

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MONTREAL – Vigilance Santé, a Canadian leader in clinical decision support solutions for medication, announces the acquisition of MedSafer, a Quebec-based company that has spent several years developing and scientifically […]

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HAMILTON, Ont. – McMaster University has announced the appointment of Dr. Nancy Baxter (pictured) to vice-president and dean, Faculty of Health Sciences beginning August 31, 2026. An internationally respected academic […]

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TORONTO – MaRS Discovery District and the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) have announced the grand prize winner of the Rural and Remote Community Cancer Screening Challenge, an innovation competition designed […]

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Canada’s health care costs were projected to reach $399 billion in 2025.¹ Prompted by external factors such as inflation and an aging population, health systems need to exercise every lever […]

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How should innovation be done in healthcare? Speakers at the recent HIMSS conference in Las Vegas addressed this topic, repeatedly pointing out that other industries have surged ahead on productivity […]

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Erie Shores HealthCare’s Emergency Department in Leamington, Ontario, 50 kilometres southeast of Windsor, has reduced the average time until initial physician assessment (PIA) by more than 40 percent – from […]

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LAS VEGAS – At a HIMSS session on how hospitals are deploying real-world AI solutions, Evan Lyons, executive vice president and chief information officer at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), […]

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ST. JOHN’S – Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services has been implementing a new approach to address missed appointments. NL Health Services partnered with patient engagement specialists, TxtSquad, to introduce […]

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British Columbia’s Health Information Management (HIM) program is a lower mainland consolidated (LMC) service, supporting Providence Health Care, Provincial Health Services Authority, Fraser Health, and Vancouver Coastal Health. With nearly […]

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Most health IT leaders know the picture. Everett Rogers drew it in 1962. A bell curve. Innovators at the left, then early adopters, early and late majority, laggards at the […]

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A team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) developed Opal into a well-known patient information platform that was used by thousands of patients. However, with […]

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Canada’s Connected Care for Canadians Act (Bill S5) reinforces expectations for interoperability and vendor alignment, but success will be in the operational details: standardized definitions and consent models people can […]

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Healthcare systems are often described as capacity constrained. Demand continues to rise, workforce shortages persist, and fiscal pressures limit the ability to scale resources at the pace required to keep […]

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Bill S-5 the Connected Care for Canadians Act (CCA), is a long overdue and necessary development. This bill along with Canada Health Infoway’s 2023 Shared Pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap (Roadmap) need […]

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Administrative work has quietly become one of the biggest barriers to effective mental health care. Documentation, billing and claims management can pull therapists away from valuable time with clients. The […]

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OSHAWA, Ont. – Lakeridge Health and its regional partners announced the launch of Sectra One Cloud, a new diagnostic imaging system that connects hospitals across the Central East Region – […]

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