How this Canadian hospital is embracing health IT
Peter Bak, CIO of Humber River Hospital in Toronto, highlighted his organization's digital efforts around systems automation, connectivity and an analytics-focused command center.
Boehringer Ingelheim, IBM to study blockchain in clinical trials
At the ongoing HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, the companies' Canadian divisions said their partnership would mark the technology's first use in clinical trials in Canada.
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Enhanced Direct Enrollment: Georgia Access and the Power of Partnership
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
Many doctors writing clinical practice guidelines receive undisclosed industry payments, study finds
Greater transparency about conflicts of interest could curb punitive actions like MSKCC executive's resignation last month, study author says.
This diagnostic device uses temperature to aid melanoma detection
Four recent engineering graduates from McMaster University, near Toronto, built a device to detect melanoma that measures the temperature differences between melanoma and normal tissue.
5 medtech companies to watch at JLABS @ Toronto
WinterLight’s technology seeks to isolate cadence, word choice and other voice markers that might indicate a neurological issue. It is one of more than 40 companies at JLabs @ Toronto.
Do caregivers need a Parkinson’s disease simulation device to experience empathy?
Do doctors need a shot of empathy? Researchers at a Canadian digital healthcare marketing company think so, and say they can administer it wirelessly.
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RCM Outsourcing: Balancing Human Expertise & Smart Technology
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
Apple brings in star YouTube doctor to work on digital health
Since Apple treats its works-in-progress as state secrets, those of us on the outside are left to speculate on what the tech company might be up to, including in healthcare. Sometimes, we get some clues and are left to fill in the blanks.
Study applies Fitbit for heart rate monitoring of intensive care patients
The research is especially interesting because so few of the journal articles available on wearables document clinical trial findings.
Ransomware said to infect computers of hospital website visitors
A security researcher blamed an outdated release of the Joomla content management system, making the hospital a "sitting duck."
Image-sharing app Figure 1 takes pulse of healthcare professionals
With a user base of half a million healthcare professionals around the world and more than 1 billion views of its medical cases, mobile healthcare image-sharing platform Figure 1 is starting to tap into its critical mass.
As Healthcare and Biopharma Companies Embrace AI, Insurance Underwriters See Risks and Opportunities
In an interview, Munich Re Specialty Senior Vice President Jim Craig talked about the risk that accompanies innovation and the important role that insurers play.
Hospital co-develops app with SeamlessMD to improve joint replacement care
Toronto-based SeamlessMD is partnering with Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre, part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the same city, to introduce myHip&Knee, a free app that helps patients both before and after joint replacements.
Surgery recovery coach developer raises $1.1M (Updated)
SeamlessMD raised $1.1 million in a seed round that included BDC Capital, FundersClub and angel investors.
Joint pain, function not always better after surgery
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only about half of people who have a knee or hip replaced see meaningful improvements in pain and disability in the months after surgery, a new study from Canada suggests. Researchers found people who had worse knee or hip ...