International Business

It’s estimated only 8% of all laboratories in sub-Saharan Africa meet international accreditation standards. An average rural lab in Africa serves anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 people and most have poor infrastructure, insufficient staff and equipment shortages. Enter AMREF and its lab program, which provides technical assistance, disease outbreak investigations and research, as well as much-needed quality assessment.

Changes to Canada’s drug patent system proposed by the European Union would wipe out savings from the Ontario government’s drug reforms, according to Jim Keon, president of the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association (CGPA).

The first global “Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence” (PICOE) has been opened by GE at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. This new centre has the potential to revolutionize pathology through digital innovation.

Canadian EMR drive wrongheaded, says vendor CEO

The Ottawa Hospital has become University HealthSystem Consortium’s second non-U.S.-based full member. The Health Roundtable Limited in Australia was the first.

Richard C. Alvarez, president and chief executive officer of Canada Health Infoway, will be one of the keynote speakers at Global E-Health Forum 2011, Oct. 11-13 in Hamburg, Germany.