Technology

VANCOUVER | The fulfillment of regulatory affairs and quality assurance for medical devices is mandatory and requires appropriate professional help, according to David Christie, president of Christie Consulting Services.

Innovative mobile technologies are addressing the reality that ill people are often bed-ridden

The wisdom of experts in health informatics will be presented by the National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI) in a new advanced course scheduled for Oct. 1, 2012, in Toronto.

TORONTO | The Connected Health and Wellness Project (CHWP) will be a people-centred and technology-enabled system making it possible for patients to keep health information from different hospitals or clinics in one place, and letting them decide who they trust to see that information.

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.

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.

VANCOUVER | The Centre of Excellence for the Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre) and IO Informatics are partnering to develop new tools for clinicians to address chronic heart, lung and kidney disease.