When Walter Osoka first began experiencing mental health challenges in the late 1980s, cell phones were a novelty and reaching a care provider outside of a scheduled appointment was not common practice. Now a mental health advocate, he has seen ...

The healthcare industry is experiencing fundamental transformation… and as  tumultuous as the current environment is, it is expected to become even more complex over the next several years. Data overload is a problem as well as a potential problem solver.  New ...

When Walter Osoka first began experiencing mental health challenges in the late 1980s, cell phones were a novelty and reaching a care provider outside of a scheduled appointment was not common practice. Now a mental health advocate, he has seen ...

From sterilization processing departments and operating rooms to emergency wards and out-patient clinics, there are opportunities for efficiencies in many areas of hospital operations – the key is to know where to look and who to engage in the process. The ...

There is no denying that health care and technology are coming together in amazing ways. In my 15-yr nursing career, I have seen paper “SOAP” notes turn into spreadsheets, and notepads into personal digital assistants (PDAs). The information technology (IT) ...

Chances are someone you know is living with at least one chronic health condition. In Canada alone there are close to 20-million individuals with a chronic condition; many whom require ongoing attention and care to manage their health.Some of these ...

For the six million Canadians living with high blood pressure, a new smartphone application has the potential to put the power back in the patients’ hands. Dr. Alexander Logan, a nephrologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, together with Dr. Joseph Cafazzo from ...

St. Joseph’s Health Centre is taking the steps to enhance patient care through innovation, as plans move ahead as part of our eCare strategy for the implementation of a fully comprehensive electronic health record by November 2013. Our eCare initiative has ...

In November, Providence Healthcare became the first hospital in Canada to implement the BeaconTM Inventory Management System from TCGRx, a new automatic medication dispenser, for its new on-site retail pharmacy. “When we first spoke about opening a retail pharmacy for our ...

More than 100 hospital sites in Canada and abroad are now using HandyAudit®, an electronic tool created by Toronto Rehab-University Health Network (UHN) to provide objective, accurate and consistent hand hygiene measurements. “There’s been a surge of interest,” says Dr. Geoff ...