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| Artisynth Biomechanical Modelling Team from University of British Columbia Seeking Partners Source: BioMed Town The “Artisynth biomechanical modelling” project (www.artisynth.org,) of the University of British Columbia, Canada, is seeking research partners to help create anatomical models using our new multibody/FEM software, or to exploit our existing models of human oral and upper airway anatomy to develop research and medical applications involving this region. Artisynth is an open-source Java-based software platform for biomechanical modelling that supports the coupled simulation of rigid bodies and FEM-based deformable bodies with contact, friction, and constraints. Numerous components suitable to anatomical simulation are supported, including nonlinear and transverse isotropic materials, higher order elements, and Hill-type muscle models. Inverse modelling capabilities provide the ability to estimate neural activations from kinematic motion data. Models are created using Java and run in an interactive graphical environment that allows dynamic interaction, model editing, and simulation control.
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| “COACH”: CANADA'S HEALTH INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION Source: http://www.coachorg.com COACH is an organization dedicated to promoting a clear understanding of health informatics within the Canadian health system through education, information, networking and communication. A MESSAGE from the PRESIDENTThe COACH Vision: Taking Health Informatics MainstreamThe term vision is often associate to images of the future and anticipation of positive, sometimes remarkable things to come. At COACH, we know our Vision of Taking Health Informatics Mainstream is being realized in very real ways as a growing number of Canadians recognize and understand the important role IT can play in administrative and clinical best practice and ultimately in improving healthcare.
COACH has already started the process of translating these objectives into action. Most recently, for example, actively engaging members took the form of the online Member Survey that will help shape our new Marketing and Communications Plan. The commitment to expanding product and service offerings can be seen in the Executive Forum, launched in 2007, and the new Health Informatics Training System (HITS) online course as well as new developments such as the HIP@Work pilot project to facilitate the use of our Health Informatics Professional Core Competencies document. |
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| Toronto: HealthAchieve 2009 |
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| Medica 2009 - the 41st World Forum for Medicine |
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| Canada “Health Infoway” Annual Reports and Business Plans25 Jun 2009 Funded by the federal government, Health Infoway works with all provinces and territories to implement private and secure health information systems, and shares or replicates best practices and successful projects among regions Created in 2001, Canada Health Infoway is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose Members are Canada’s 14 Deputy Ministers of Health Learn more aboutEHRs are changing livesIf you are working
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| Safety-Net Providers Bring Patients Online: Lessons from Early AdoptersSource: Califórnia Healthcare Foundation (http://www.chcf.org/) Reports & Initiatives Safety-net providers such as public hospitals, community health centers, and local health departments are starting to provide online tools including electronic health record (EHR) portals and personal health records (PHRs) to their patients.
Programs that provide online tools to migrant workers and homeless people are also described. The lessons gleaned from early adopters focus on understanding patients' needs and capacities; making tools useful; providing training and assistance; recognizing privacy concerns; overcoming organizational barriers; demonstrating impact; and facilitating collaboration with other safety-net providers. Document Downloads: Safety-Net Providers Bring Patients Online: Lessons from Early Adopters (623K) |
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| Under the Microscope: Trends in Laboratory MedicineSource: Califórnia Healthcare Foundation (http://www.chcf.org/) (The Lewin Group) Laboratory medicine, which plays an integral role in health care, is handicapped by overuse, underuse, and misuse of services; poor communication and coordination; and inefficiency. Labs can generate valuable data to help correct these problems by virtue of numerous scientific and technological breakthroughs that enable early detection of disease and better management of medical conditions.
Laboratory medicine will play an ever greater role in repairing the fractured health care system as stakeholders increasingly demand scientific evidence for clinical decision-making and strategies to address care quality, outcomes, and cost. Document Downloads: Under the Microscope: Trends in Laboratory Medicine (885K) |
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| Canada-Québec “e-Health 2009: Leadership in Action" |
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| CA - Patients manage health at home with TeleHealth Homecare Source: CANADA INFO WAY (Federal level) (Kimberley, BC) - More congestive heart failure patients living in distant places in CANADA, can now use a monitoring system at home to check their condition and send data on their vital signs direct to their care providers. East Kootenay MLA Bill Bennett, on behalf of Health Services Minister George Abbott, got a first-hand demonstration of the system at work at the home of Mr. Charles Park in Kimberley . "Patients can check their vital signs to better manage their own care and know that information is also going to their doctor or nurse - I am delighted to see this innovation helping heart patients in the Kootenays," said MLA Bennett. "This practical demonstration in a patient's home shows how Telehealth gives patient's access to a greater role in their own care and more timely delivery of patient care when they need it." "Telehealth is one way we are breaking down barriers to quality health care for British Columbians regardless of where people live," said Health Services Minister George Abbott. " Telehealth homecare enables faster detection of problems, lets patients self-manage their care and saves travel time for patients and caregivers." “Interior Health” deployed 40 monitoring units in a pilot in the Cranbrook and Kimberley areas in July 2006 serving 87 patients. It will add another 20 units so more patients in the East Kootenay can use the system. The monitors are placed in homes for up to three months to learn about how to better manage their congestive heart failure. After three months the monitor is removed from that patient's home and deployed in another. This program is based on a partnership between the patient, physician and nurse . The patients are given the opportunity to learn how to manage their disease with the help of the care team. The knowledge gives the patients more confidence and freedom. (read more…) |
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| A Premium Health Care Grid to Be Deployed in Saskatchewan (Canada) Source: “On The Go Technologies Group” (published at www.gridtoday.com ) “On The Go Technologies Group”, a leading multi-industry computer hardware, software and systems integrator, announced today that its broad spectrum health care division, OTG Healthcare, has received an order for a turnkey DICOM archive solution inclusive of “Acuo Technologies DICOM Grid software and hardware” to be deployed within Saskatchewan's Provincial health care region. The order is significant and unprecedented as it represents the first of its kind in Canada. “Acuo Technologies' DICOM Services Grid software” delivers 21st century image management features and performance. The AcuoMed Image Manager is a secure, open-system software solution for transporting, storing, tracking and retrieval of digital images across an entire DICOM network. The enabling open systems software solution, constructed on a collaborative and extensible grid computing model, facilitates an infrastructure built on a services-oriented architecture and virtualizes and replicates storage assets. AcuoMed works in conjunction with digital asset manager AcuoStore. AcuoStore serves as a digital vault, communicating AcuoMed instructions to diverse DICOM storage devices, in which digital DICOM image and patient information is contained. DICOM is the registered trademark of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association for its standards publications relating to digital communications of medical information. (more…) |
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| Study: Clients Transitioning From Inpatient Rehabilitation to ComplexContinuing Care or Home New analysis from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows that while 82% of patients leaving an Ontario rehabilitation facility were discharged home, 2% were discharged to a complex continuing care facility. The study Clients Transitioning From Inpatient Rehabilitation to Complex Continuing Care or Home offers a demographic and clinical profile of these patients, in an effort to help inform decisions regarding resource allocation, admission criteria and discharge planning for inpatient rehabilitation. (more...) |
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| Ontario Health Network Links Region's HospitalsSource: California Healthcare foundation ( www.ihealthbeat.org ) A health network in Eastern Ontario, Canada, recently has begun sharing electronic health records among 18 of the region's 20 hospitals, according to Wilmer Matthews, chair of the health network, the Ottawa Sun reports. |
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| Telehealth leaders to share expertise with Middle East colleagues (Teaching hospitals also participate) Date: Nov 2005 Source: News@UofT -- Health and Medicine Author: Elizabeth Monier-Williams University of Toronto medical faculty and healthcare leaders at UofT teaching hospitals, have signed a three-year telehealth agreement to exchange knowledge with colleagues in the Middle East. The International Network of Knowledge through Electronic Learning aims to strengthen relations among Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians over a common cause - improving health status and healthcare services for their populations. Through this project, the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto, the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, the Canada International Scientific Exchange Program (CISEPO), and the Peter A. Silverman Centre for International Health at Mount Sinai Hospital will collaborate with Israel's Edith Wolfson Medical Center and Tel Aviv University; the Jordan University of Science and Technology; and the West Bank's Al Quds University. The formal agreement builds on more than a decade of cooperative cross-border continuing medical education programming organized through CISEPO and the University of Toronto. The agreement initiates telehealth rounds that will be delivered in real time in Canada and the Middle East. Healthcare and community health professionals, residents and students will view the same patient cases and then engage in discussion. The initial focus will be on diagnosing and treating neurological and psychiatric conditions that afflict aging adults, including Alzheimer's disease, depression, Parkinson's disease or a combination of neurologically complex conditions. “This e-health initiative is truly innovative. It promises to build international cooperation while addressing local needs in the Middle East through professional education,” says Professor Harvey Skinner, chair of Public Health Sciences at UofT. If this model for global e-health learning proves successful in the Middle East, the network members plan to expand it to other countries and world regions. Email: news.events@utoronto.ca |
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| AlwaysOn
(AO) 2003: The Innovation Summit Stanford Law School on the Stanford University Campus - Palo Alto, CA http://www.alwayson-network.com/summit.php Dear Colleague, We have just opened registration for the first annual AO2003: The Innovation Summit to be held at Stanford Law School on the Stanford University campus from July 15-July 17. I invite you to join us. AO believes that consumers have an insatiable demand to instantly communicate, access content, and conduct commerce from anywhere, at anytime, and on any device. We also believe that in order to survive, businesses must automate their businesses out on the web so they can serve customers 24/7. It's these trends that will drive the next high-tech boom, and this is what AO2003 is all about. To give attendees an inside look at how these demands translate into new commercial opportunities, AO is securing an all-star line-up of executives and companies that we think will lead the always-on revolution: Eric Schmidt, Google; Michael Dell, Dell Computer; Tim Draper, Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson; Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com; Vinod Khosla, Kleiner Perkins; Jeff Berg, ICM; Pekka Ala-PietilŠ, Nokia; and Shimon Peres, Israel's former Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner will be among our cast of characters. Through a highly interactive and spontaneous format, we will uncover new entrepreneurial opportunities and debate the social and political challenges of an always-on world. Sessions include:
AO will also be honoring the Top 50 private, always-on companies. The world's top technology journalists will lead the closing session. All participants will get wireless devices with which to vote, comment, and communicate throughout the conference. Tickets for this event are already going quickly! Register now to reserve your spot. Yours cordially, Tony Perkins |
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CA*Net 3 - Who's
Holding Back Broadband? Not long ago, in a speech at a summit on Internet development, Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell gave the nation a glimpse
of his vision of what might kindle such a revival. At least part of that
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"Case Mix and Quality
Assurance Conference" (Niagara Falls)- Over 350 participants at the Case Mix and Quality Assurance Conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario, gave a thumbs up to organizers, this week as the three-day conference wrapped up. Delegates from Canada, USA, Australia, Finland and Sweden who attended New Frontiers in Health Information, a joint USA and Canadian Case Mix and Quality Assurance Conference rated the conference as very high value. (more) |
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"e-Health 2002: A New Era of Health Care Delivery" "e-Health 2002: A New Era of Health Care Delivery" is jointly sponsored by Canada's two most proactive health informatics organizations: the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and COACH -Canada's Health Informatics Association. The event will be held from April 20-23, 2002 at "The Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina" in Vancouver, BC. (more) |
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CA*Net 3 - The Internet Under Siege A - Who owns the Internet? Until recently, nobody. That's because, although
the Internet was "Made in the U.S.A.," its unique design transformed
it into a resource for innovation that anyone in the world could use.
Today, however, courts and corporations are attempting to wall off portions
of cyberspace. In so doing, they are destroying the Internet's potential
to foster democracy and economic growth worldwide. B - The Internet revolution has ended just as surprisingly as it began. None expected the explosion of creativity that the network produced; few expected that explosion to collapse as quickly and profoundly as it has. The phenomenon has the feel of a shooting star, flaring unannounced across the night sky, then disappearing just as unexpectedly. Under the guise of protecting private property, a series of new laws and regulations are dismantling the very architecture that made the Internet a framework for global innovation. |
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CA*Net 3 - Optical Internet Backbone In February 1998, the federal government announced a $55 million commitment to CANARIE build a national optical Internet network. In March 1998 CANARIE issued a Request for Information (RFI) to select potential industry partners to build and deploy this network. The new optical Internet network is intended to be a testbed to showcase Canadian industry capability in next generation Internet products and services and, in parallel with CA*net II, to provide an unparalleled network for the support of research and education. (more) |
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Rethinking the design of the Internet This paper looks at the Internet and the changing set of requirements for the Internet that are emerging as it becomes more commercial, more oriented towards the consumer, and used for a wider set of purposes. We discuss a set of principles that have guided the design of the Internet, called the end to end arguments, and we conclude that there is a risk that the range of new requirements now emerging could have the consequence of compromising the Internet's original design principles. (more) |
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Telehealth Pilot Launched (Home Care) "Care Health Services" has begun a pilot telehealth project involving 140 homecare patients in Halifax and Moncton. The project uses broadband IP services from Aliant and equipment provided by March Networks. CANARIE is providing additional funding, and the Health Telematics Unit of the University of Calgary will evaluate the results. (source: CANARIE) |
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Future Revolution in Optical Networking - NSF Report
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Broadband Internet
Access for Everyone by 2004 "OTTAWA -- Tech tycoon Terry Matthews, Ottawa's premier power broker, has a vision of a health-care revolution in Tuktoyuktuk. It seems that the Northwest Territories' government put a nursing station in the remote settlement, but it was forced to reduce services drastically several times in the past year because of nursing shortages. This won't happen in the e-world Matthews sees coming--and his visions have the uncanny tendency to become reality...(more)" |
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Canada leads world in the development of fyber-optic networks
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Canada leads world in Internet usage
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Telehealth Industry in Canada - Profile and Capability Analysis You will find on Industry Canada's web site, the full text of a report written about 8 months ago by Jocelyne Picot and Trevor Cradduck and recently published by Industry Canada on the Telehealth Industry in Canada - profile and capability analysis. This is the location of the document: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/it05488e.html Également disponible en français sur le même site web; |
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Documents from the CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information) "Threat and Risk Assessment for Health Care Organizations - TRA Template" Telehealth
Projects Across Canada (PDF-file)
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