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An analysis of NICU departmental ‘Plan Typologies’
An analysis of NICU departmental ‘Plan Typologies’
in a single room care model

As the single room care model becomes the norm in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit planning and design, the single rooms can be arranged in a variety of configurations which have direct impacts on patient care delivery, operational efficiency and cost. Parkin ...


Operating Room Supply Chain: Want OR efficiency? Learn to find best locations for supplies
Operating Room Supply Chain: Want OR efficiency? Learn
to find best locations for supplies

Pilot study finds key supply chain projects like optimizing your OR inventory can reduce costs and improve staff satisfaction. This is the second installment of a three-part series examining various aspects of OR supply chain improvement projects, based on the Ontario ...


Integrating maternal-child data for all births in Ontario
Integrating maternal-child data for all births in Ontario

On the campus of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), recent privacy software innovations have been united with a clinical database to create one of the most comprehensive, secure, and coveted mother-child registries in Canada. BORN (Better Outcomes Registry ...


Canada’s oldest avatars: Making healthcare smarter
Canada’s oldest avatars: Making healthcare smarter

Homes and condos wired with sensors and remotely monitored by clinicians could signal a whole new approach to healthcare that gives Canadian seniors the support they need to age safely at home. Health care organizations across Canada are urgently seeking creative ...


Virtual Emergency Room: Using technology to reach kids in crisis
Virtual Emergency Room: Using technology to reach kids
in crisis

Every year, thousands of youth experience a mental health crisis, yet Ontario’s Wait Time Strategy data shows that these children can wait up to a year to be seen by a psychiatrist because of the severe shortage of these specialists. A ...


Ten year milestone reached by lung transplant recipient
Ten year milestone reached by lung transplant recipient

Last year, 2011 was an excellent year for Brittany Henry. At 24 years of age, she was still alive. And well enough to graduate from the University of Western Ontario, with a specialization in Family Studies. And receive her coveted ...


Greening the operating room
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 the operating room. TSH was one of five hospitals in Ontario recently awarded a Booth Centennial Green Award for ...


Drug information systems protect patients from drug interactions
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 same man develops a different condition and because he is on business out of town, he consults ...


Diagnostic Imaging Repositories: Provincial strategy begins with regional successes
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. The rationale – digital images are more easily shared among health care providers enabling clinicians to make ...


Latest technology gives instant access to cancer medication information
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 treatment for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. “I was very lucky,” says the 64 year-old retired school teacher.  “For ...


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