Ottawa | Seven of Canada’s leading health care organizations have joined together to launch new electronic tools to help Canadians use their medications safely and appropriately.
A nurse in Scotland has been barred from the profession after he spent so much time viewing pornographic material on his laptop that Internet access was slowed throughout the hospital where he worked.
Military surgeon Dr. Dennis Filips had a simple idea for closing life-threatening wounds. Now his clamp device is winning innovation awards and is almost ready for the marketplace
Safety concerns and quality of care are expected to increase the adoption of electronic health systems, says a KPMG report, Accelerating Innovation: The Power of the Crowd, recently presented to the European Union’s Commissioner for the Digital Agenda.
Just a year after the Ontario government gave the green light to remote dispensing machines, the fate of the controversial technology is up in the air with the bankruptcy of PharmaTrust.
Primary care practices with electronic medical records (EMRs) identified patients who need preventative or follow-up care approximately 30 times faster than paper-based clinics, according to a study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway.
