Bayer has an innovative personal diabetes management product out on the market dubbed the “Contour USB”. The device is a compact blood glucose test meter that comes in a form factor that is similar to a USB thumb drive and allows the user to plug the device directly into either a PC or MAC and [...]
Archive for February, 2010
30 Canadian Organizations and $15.5M Come Together to Prevent Chronic Diseases
Led by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and funded to the tune of $15.5M under the name Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention (CLASP), 30 Canadian organizations are partnering on a series of initiatives designed to help Canadians become healthier and prevent chronic diseases. CLASP will target health problems such as childhood obesity, screening [...]
WIHIR Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp – June 27th to June 30th, 2010
Bootcamp Registration is Now Open! The next Bootcamp is on June 27 to June 30, 2010 at the University of Waterloo. The organizers of the Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp have just announced new pricing options. Dominic Covvey, the founding director of NIHI, wants to offer you a special Early Bird rate. After all “It’s the [...]
iAnesthesia: Building an Impressive Portfolio for the iPhone
iAnesthesia is an iPhone, iPod, and now iPad Medical App Developer founded by two Doctors that is building out an interesting portfolio of products focused on improving patient safety and quality of care. “After years of putting up with medical software that was designed without attention to the demands of a busy anesthesia provider, Drs. [...]
Longwoods Transitions – February 16th, 2010
Longwoods February 16th, 2010 eLeter Transitions: Lynn Nagle to Strategic Advisor, eHealth at PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada Kurtis Bishop to Director, eHealth at PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada Saäd Rafi to Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario Caroline DeKeyster to Chief Nursing Officer, Misericordia Health Centre, MB Patti Smith to Executive Director of the Misericordia Health Centre Foundation, [...]
Longwoods Conferences Update – Feb 16th, 2010
Longwoods eLetter – February 16th, 2010 February 17, 2010: Toronto, ON. Smart Medication Systems: Reducing Medical Errors. February 17, 2010: Toronto, ON. Healthy Connections 2010 Conference: Self-Managing Care: From Ideas to Solutions. February 18, 2010: Toronto, ON. Transparency and Accountability in the Health Care Sector. GCE presents Dr. Ann Cavoukian. February 18-19, 2010: Moncton, NB. [...]
PWC Top Ten Health Industry Issues in 2010
PWC’s “Top ten health industry issues in 2010” is a great primer on the themes and trends that will drive our industry over the next year. While the focus is on the American healthcare system, there is a great deal of thoughtful and relevant content that make it universally worth a read. The subtitle “Squeezing [...]
International mHealth Networking Conference – Sept 8th to 9th, 2010
Second International mHealth Networking Conference Sponsored by mHealth Initiative September 8-9, 2010 Town & Country Resort Hotel San Diego CA Click here to register by March 5 at the low rate of $295 Report of First International mHealth Networking Conference Close to 300 representatives from health plans, provider organizations joined nurses, government officials, investment bankers and industry representatives [...]
See the Healthcare Online World Culture via Health Tweeder
Crunching the data and sorting through the zillions of blogs and websites analyzing and reporting on the world of Healthcare and HIT was difficult enough before the advent of Twitter. Since Twitter, the amount of content has simply exploded beyond anything previously conceived of. For the visual thinkers out there who want to see the [...]
You Are What You Eat AND Where You Live
Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it’s not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it “geo-medicine.” Resources: [...]
eHealth Vancouver – May 30th to June 2nd, 2010
e-Health 2010: From Investment to Impact e-Health 2010 will continue the tradition of past events by providing: An excellent conference program filled with practical experiences and lessons The Largest e-Health Event and Tradeshow in Canada The only Canadian Interoperability Showcase Unequalled Networking Opportunities We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver! Full conference details are [...]
Infoway Partnership Conference Montreal- April 19-21, 2010
Spring 2010 Infoway Partnership Conference Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, Montréal, Quebec April 19-21, 2010 On the heels of a successful fall Conference, planning for the Spring 2010 Infoway Partnership Conference is well underway. The spring Conference will take place April 19-21, 2010 at Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, Montréal, Quebec. The focus of this [...]
Advances in Health Informatics Conference Kitchener – April 28 – 30, 2010.
AHIC 2010 registration is now open! Time limited “Special Early Bird” rates available. Please join us for the first global virtual Health Informatics conference in Canada. – AHIC 2010 is a top-tier, peer-reviewed Health Informatics conference. – It will feature exciting speakers from Canada and around the world. – It is bringing together visionaries, researchers, [...]
Oracle SecureCARE Webinar – February 4, 2010
Oracle SecureCARE: Patient Information Secured – User Identity Confirmed Complimentary Webinar! February 4, 2010 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST Session Abstract: As information intensive healthcare organizations adopt new technologies that enable authorized health information exchange many organizations will attempt to protect their data and control access to who sees [...]
Cisco’s Community for Connected Health Summit – Monday March 1st
Cisco’s Community for Connected Health Summit Monday, March 1st 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Georgia World Conference Center Lunch Included The 3rd Annual Cisco’s Community for Connected Health Summit brings together the power of healthcare innovators and Cisco experts into a forum of education, best practices and networking. This half-day summit offers the latest technology [...]
Haiku: An Epic iPhone App Release
Epic Systems has quietly released an iPhone application called Haiku that will allow mobile access to Epic based EHRs (Electronic Health Records). The application is a free download for users that belong to organizations that license the core applications. “Your organization needs to license Haiku and be on Epic’s Summer 2009 version and will determine [...]
MaRS Future of Medicine™ TV
MaRS has launched a series of online videos highlighting presentations from the MaRS Future of Medicine™ Conference held in Toronto on November 12, 2009. This is a great opportunity to check out some of the content presented if you were not able to attend and get a feel for the conference and it’s value if [...]
eHealth Week Barcelona – May 15th to May 18th
The high-level eHealth conferences have been organised by the countries holding the temporary presidency of the E.U. since 2003 and are a challenge in the process carried out by the member states of working together in favour of greater implementation of applications in eHealth. The Health Ministry of Spain, the country that will hold the presidency of the Council in the first [...]
Longwoods Transitions – February 2nd, 2010
Longwoods February 2nd, 2010 eLeter Transitions: Dr. Brian Postl retiring as President and CEO of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, effective June 2010 Dr. Carrol Pitters to Chief of Staff, The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Dr. Robert Peterson to CIHR’s Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network as Executive Director Dr. Tomas Paus to Joint [...]
Global Healthcare 2010 Trends and Innovation Booster New York – February 28th to March 2nd
Global Healthcare 2010 Trends and Innovation Booster New York / 28 February – 2 March The Global Healthcare sector has historically been fairly resilient to recessions, but it is not ‘recession proof’. The long-term prospects for the sector are good, as strong growth in emerging markets, an ageing population, and growing levels of lifestyle-related chronic [...]
