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Green Clinical Academic Campus is golden
Last fall, the Clinical Academic Campus (CAC) at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) was recognized as Kelowna’s first LEED Canada Gold certified building. KGH [...]
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Greening the operating room
The Scarborough Hospital is being lauded as a leader in demonstrating a serious commitment to going green and using reusable textiles in [...]
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Drug information systems protect patients from drug interactions
It’s an easy scenario to imagine. A man consults his doctor for a particular condition. The doctor writes a prescription. Sometime later that [...]
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Disease management requires technology―and an attitude change
Multiple chronic conditions are reaching epidemic proportions and putting an unprecedented financial and logistical strain on our health care system. Chronic conditions in [...]
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Call to order: New room service food delivery system
Halton Healthcare Service (HHS) recently introduced Call to Order, a new Room Service food delivery system, on selected patient care units at [...]
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Breaking ground on North America’s first fully digital hospital
Toronto’s Humber River Regional Hospital (HRRH) is breaking ground on a new approach to patient-centred care; empowering patients and using state-of-the-art technology to [...]
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Waste audit helps Homewood become even greener
Organizations work hard to establish green sustainability programs. Many programs include waste minimization initiatives, source separating, recycling, water reduction programs, energy efficiencies or [...]
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Aerospace technology meets rehabilitation research
There is nothing else like it in the world. A six-degree-of-freedom motion simulator located four storeys below ground that can recreate different environments, [...]
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Hospital’s ‘Go Green Team’ celebrates many accomplishments
The team at Ross Memorial Hospital (RMH) works hard to be a responsible neighbour, a good corporate citizen and a community leader in [...]
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Reusable sharps containers making healthcare safer and greener
Plastic disposable sharps containers account for a significant portion of the total sharps waste stream. In recent years the amount of sharps waste [...]
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Finding the cure for operational inefficiency
A long list of operational ailments is affecting the health of Canadian hospitals. High demand for services; resources stretched to meet demand; pressure [...]
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Centres of Influence designed to achieve higher aspirations
Every hospital communicates a series of visual messages directly to its consumers, staff and patients about what the organization is, and what it [...]
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Diagnostic Imaging Repositories: Provincial strategy begins with regional successes
Many jurisdictions are migrating from film and paper-based diagnostic images such as hospital-based CT scans, ultrasounds, MRIs, mammograms and x-rays, to digital formats. [...]
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Latest technology gives instant access to cancer medication information
Unlike many patients who develop cancer and require chemotherapy treatment right away, it was six years before Marie Nelson needed any medication or [...]
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A holistic approach to healthy data security practices
Data breaches are among the biggest challenges facing today’s health care industry. In the past two years in Ontario alone, according to the [...]
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Information available across multiple platforms for health care professionals
Health care practitioners and administrators face multiple challenges when it comes to staying current with therapeutic information. Not only does the information have [...]
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Bill 168: The Year in Review
It has now been over a year since Bill 168, the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace) [...]
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Ask the ethicist: Patient-centred bioethics begins with patient education
Due to the illness of a family member, I have spent the vast majority of the past two years visiting many different hospitals. [...]
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A shot in the arm
Fewer than 50 per cent of health-care workers in acute and complex continuing care got the flu shot in 2010. Efforts to boost [...]
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Shared accountability and stakeholder engagement pave path to success
When I arrived at York Central Hospital a little over a year ago, the hospital was in the midst of a major transformation. [...]
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