Heart pump helps patient live to see grandchildren
By Taresh Mistry
Lina Amaral cherishes the two young granddaughters she never would have met, had it not been for the tiny device in her...
Virtual reality video games make rehab fun for younger patients
By Vivian Sum
Experts commonly advise that the best exercise is exercise you enjoy doing—that way you’ll keep doing it. The same holds true for...
New web-based app launches shift filling into the digital age
By Julie Adams
In the past, if Liz Caterer, staff scheduler at Stevenson Memorial Hospital (SMH) needed to fill a shift she pulled out her...
Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to advance interoperability in Canadian healthcare
By Wilson To and Patrick Combes
Navigating the health care system, is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general...
The future of healthy aging
By Rebecca Ihilchik
The Canadian population is aging faster now than at any time in our history. The latest estimates suggest that nearly 750,000 Canadians...
World’s first clinical analytic applications in Hospital Command Centre revolutionize the patient experience
Combining AI, Machine Learning and Professional Expertise to Help Deliver Better, Faster and Safer Patient Care
By Arielle Zomer
Our healthcare landscape is changing. Every day,...
The best healthcare is value-based
By Timothy Wilson
The term Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC) was first made popular by authors Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg in their ground-breaking work, Redefining...
Canadian first establishes central venous access from the inside-out
By Roger Boyle
Sometimes it takes looking at a situation differently to find simpler and safer approaches to patient care.
This is evident for the Joint...
First patient in Canada treated on MR-Linac
By Alexis Dobranowski
On August 15, members of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s radiation team treated the first patient in Canada on the new MR-Linac —...
Surgeons insert 3D ankle bone into BC man’s ankle
By Ann Gibbon
In June 2017, White Rock, British Columbia resident John Jefferson and his wife Shannon were in eastern Washington State, doing what they...
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