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.
Sandoz gets into the weeds with cannabis medical product manufacturer Tilray
The Canadian company's shares reached a high price after it signed a framework agreement with Novartis's generics arm that would enable global commercialization.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Home health company Mavencare expands to Boston
The organization, which leverages technology to provide care to seniors in their own homes, also serves the Toronto and New York City markets.
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.
League raises fresh capital to grow employee health benefits platform
The Canadian startup secured C$62 million (or about $47.5 million) in a round led by TELUS Ventures. Wittington Ventures, OMERS, RBC Ventures, Real Ventures, Infinite Potential Group and BDC IT Venture Fund also participated in the round.
Redox marks first longterm care deal through partnership with specialty EHR provider
Redox's deal with PointClickCare was its first partnership in senior care and could improve the way data is shared in the longterm care sector.
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Employers find ways around FDA crackdown on drug imports to reduce prescription costs
Congress has passed legislation legalizing the importation of prescription drugs several times in the past 20 years, but both Democratic and Republican administrations have opted not to implement it.
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.
A new world of non-invasive cardiac diagnostics
Genetesis and Analytics 4 Life have developed non-invasive approaches to cardiac diagnostics.
InterSystems, Epic take the lead in global EHR market share
Which EHR vendors were the hottest across the globe? The KLAS "Global EMR Market Share 2017" report analyzes new hospital EHR contracts that happened all over the world in 2016.
At ViVE 2024, Panelists Share Prior Authorization Progress and Frustration in Payer Insights Program
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
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.
Partnership for Safer Medicines launches campaign against Canadian drug imports
The U.S. drug industry has strongly opposed efforts to open the borders to drug imports, but pharma lobbying group PhRMA is not mentioned in the Partnership for Safer Medicines' advertising blitz.
Aurinia rocks the boat with $150M public offering
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals put cashflow issues behind it on Tuesday, announcing a public offering that it expects will generate $150.5 million in gross proceeds for its Phase 3 trial in lupus nephritis. But not everyone was happy with the news.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquires AI startup
Meta developed software to analyze and connect insights across millions of scientific papers, according to a description of the company on Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Facebook page.
Is protectionism hurting health IT innovation?
We need a better way forward, one which protects the networks and IP of established eHealth companies, while also enabling active innovation from the eHealth community.