Technology

BASINGSTOKE, U.K | The next five years will see a major shift towards smartphone-based mobile health systems, where hardware attachments link to companion apps on the smartphone, according to Juniper Research.

Do you tweet? Facebook? Blog? Do your patients read about their medications on Wikipedia or diagnose themselves using WebMD? Social media has become the “new normal.

BURLINGTON, Ont. | After an intensive evaluation of seven PACS suppliers, Joseph Brant Hospital has ordered a Carestream Vue PACS and zero-footprint Vue Motion mobile image viewer to provide fully featured on-site and off-site reading and viewing of images and reports by radiologists, clinicians and referring physicians.

TUCSON, Ariz. | Ventana Medical Systems Inc., a member of the Roche Group, has entered into an agreement with data storage and IT infrastructure industry company EMC Corp. to offer a highly scalable and flexible solution to store and archive medical images as part of the Ventana digital pathology solution for anatomical pathology labs.

TORONTO | A new incident and patient feedback reporting app, RL6:Mobile, has been inmtroduced by RL Solutions, creator of healthcare quality and safety software.

ABBOTT PARK, Ill. | Abbott has announced that the Xience Xpeditio Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System has received Health Canada approval and is launching immediately in Canada.

TORONTO | COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association has just published the 2013 CPHIMS-CA Canadian Health Informatics Review and Reference Guide.

LONDON, Ont. | The Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization (CIMTEC), Western University and Claron Technology are developing hardware and novel software modules to be integrated into an image-guided oncology therapy system for wide distribution abroad by Perfint Healthcare, based in India.