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Technology allows caregivers to check on seniors
Home sweet home can be even sweeter with the CareLink Advantage system.
Date Published | April, 2009 - More.... |
Group Health Centre joins Pan-Northern PACS project
The Sault Ste. Marie Group Health Centre is converting to digital diagnostic imaging with the help of the Sault Area Hospital (SAH).
Date Published | April, 2009 - More.... |
Cardiac rehab program wins Freedman Award
Residents of smaller communities in northwestern Ontario who return home following a heart attack are more able...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008 - More.... |
Ontario leads the way in access to defibrillators
Life-saving support machines called Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are making their way ...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008 - More.... |
High-definition MIS suites speed recovery
Dr. Gabriel Mapeso, a surgeon at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, remembers how ...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008 - More.... |
Health Services Virtual Organization brings expertise, knowledge and innovative approaches to health care
Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s Health Services Virtual Organization, is drawing national and international expertise to the region with its recently funded development project through ...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008 - More.... |
PDA pilot: help is close at hand
When Lisa Russell, a registered nurse with the Timmins Family Health Team, makes a home visit to a senior citizen ...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008 - More.... |
Thunder Bay acquires cutting edge PET-CT device
A state-of-the-art PET-CT scanner acquired in June by the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, an arm’s ...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008 - More.... |
eHealth becoming a reality
Someday in the not too distant future, hospital emergency room staff will be able to access everything they need to know ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008 - More.... |
eCHN keeps doctors up-to-date
Sudbury pediatrician Dr. Burke Baird recently referred a young patient who was experiencing seizures to a specialist at ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008 - More.... |
NEON connects northeastern hospitals
Nearly 10 years ago, at the sunset of the last millennium, government funding was earmarked to thwart the worldwide ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008 - More.... |
Navigating the EMR marketplace
Managing a busy medical practice, keeping pace with an ever-expanding knowledge base and having a personal life is enough ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008 - More.... |
Pushing the electronic envelope
When the Group Health Centre, an ambulatory care centre in Sault Ste. Marie, became one of the first organizations in Ontario ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008 - More.... |
EMRs enable powerful functionality
Vendors of electronic medical record (EMR) software for physician practices in Canada have tended to be smaller ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008 - More.... |
Putting diabetics in control
The newest Medtronic insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring system come closer than ever to mimicking the human pancreas..
Date Published | Dec. 20, 2007 - More.... |
Telemedicine: the next frontier
The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) has been given the green light to launch a Telehomecare pilot project that will allow health-care professionals to remotely monitor patients in their homes...
Date Published | Sept. 20, 2007 - More.... |
Instructional video clips in the palm of your hand
When young doctors and nurses are trained in hospitals, they often spend a lot of time watching more experienced colleagues at work instead of doing things themselves. Sometimes they just need a reminder of how a procedure is done before performing it themselves...
Date Published | Sept. 20, 2007 - More.... |
New network to speed traffic
A state-of-the-art, dedicated high performance computer network being built for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) will provide Ontario’s health-care system with a faster and more reliable communication infrastructure...
Date Published | Sept. 20, 2007 - More.... |
Telestroke service looks to next steps
A Telestroke project piloted in North Bay and Sudbury and subsequently expanded to Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, Peterborough and several other sites in Ontario has saved lives and is “clearly having an impact,” said Elaine Gergolas, corporate project lead with the Ontario Telemedicine Network...
Date Published | April 20, 2007 - More.... |
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