NORWICH, U.K. | Working in collaboration with the Colman NHS Hospital in Norwich, British treatment couch manufacturer Plinth 2000 has developed what it calls an entirely new bariatric tilt table.
OTTAWA _ The Arthritis Research Centre of Canada has won the 2012 CIHR-IMHA Knowledge Translation Prize for its efforts to improve the lives of Canadians living with arthritis through high-impact collaborative research and innovative methods to educate patients and health professionals.
LAVAL, QUE. _ The hemodynamics team at the Hôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé of the Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Laval has implanted the first bioresorbable coronary drug-eluting vascular scaffold in Canada.
‘Science-ish’—a joint project of the Medical Post, Maclean’s, and the McMaster Health Forum—has won the Canadian Medical Association’s 2012 Media Award for Excellence in Digital Health Reporting.
Agfa HealthCare and Orion Health have joined forces to image-enable electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges (HIEs), and for regional-enabled hospital information systems/clinical iInformation systems/electronic patient records (HIS/CISs/EPRs).
