Technology

OTTAWA | MyMedRec, a free iPhone app to help people keep track of medication use and immunization history, is now available internationally. Earlier this year, MyMedRec reached the top 10 list for free iPhone and iPad apps and has been downloaded by more than 8,000 Canadians.

Survey shows electronic systems already showing $1.3 billion in efficiencies

After years of talk about the benefits and challenges of implementing e-prescribing in Canada, it looks like it could finally become a reality in 2015.

TORONTO | Healthtech Consultants is launching new products and services the company says will transform healthcare, with innovative information management and technology solutions in EMR adoption, virtual health, clinical and business transformation, and rural and northern health.

TORONTO | A new study of spending on medical devices in 66 countries finds they are a smaller burden on health spending, and are more affordable relative to GDP in Canada compared to most other countries.

TORONTO | PatientOrderSets.com has acquired a patient self-management technology, fliiSolutions, which is used to track patients' compliance with care plans, allowing patients in the community to be effectively supervised by a clinician remotely.

LONDON, ONT. | Kelly Dickson, from Cambridge, Ont., is the first patient in North America to receive the Boneridge bone conduction hearing implant. The surgery was successfully performed in late April at London Health Sciences Centre.

MARKHAM, ONT. | Nightingale Informatix, a provider of cloud-based electronic medical record software and related services, is partnering with PEPID, a multinational provider of electronic decision-support resources for healthcare professionals.