Technology

NEW YORK | A multi-centre analysis shows the use of temporary "fully covered self-expanding metal stents" can effectively fix a painful and potentially life-threatening benign biliary stricture – a severely blocked or narrowed bile duct.

NEWMARKET, ONT. | Southlake Regional Health Centre is embracing the power of the Internet. Describing itself as a centre of healthcare innovation and excellence, Southlake notes the responsibility to provide patients and community members with up-to-date health-related information.

BEDFORD, U.K. | It’s not the Star Trek medical tricorder, but the handheld AgPlus Diagnostics analytical platform is getting close.

Mobile health applications you can recommend to your patients

TORONTO | NexJ Systems, a provider of cloud-based software, has entered into a partnership with Orion Health to distribute joint capabilities and technologies such as NexJ Connected Wellness and the Rhapsody Integration Engine.

Three Ontario hospitals are now using PatientKeeper Physician Portal, Mobile Clinical Results and NoteWriter software.

Novari Health and QHR Technologies are joining forces to reduce regional and provincial surgical wait times. The collaboration will integrate technologies to bring the combined benefits of two popular electronic medical records systems to Canadian healthcare providers and patients.