Technology

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.

MONTREAL | EMcision International, a Montreal-based company specializing in advanced radiofrequency-based medical devices used in surgery, has sold its first units of the Habib RF DUO 13 catheter. This is a new device designed to help abdominal cancer patients.

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.