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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 )
Date: 24 of May, 2007

“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.

Study: Clients Transitioning From Inpatient Rehabilitation to ComplexContinuing Care or Home

Source:  Canadian Institute for Health Information - CIHI ( www.cihi.ca/  )
Date: 18 April 2007

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...)

Ontario Health Network Links Region's Hospitals

Source:  California Healthcare foundation ( www.ihealthbeat.org )
( by Hammond, Ottawa Sun , March, 8)
Date:  8th March, 2007

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.

The Champlain health network is the first of Ontario's 14 health regions to create an interoperable, online EHR system that also is compatible with the province's health care database. All 20 of Champlain's hospitals are expected to be linked together by next fall, Matthews said.
Matthews also said Champlain is looking to expand its electronic database beyond hospitals to "doctor's offices, long-term care homes and other service providers."

According to health officials, accessible EHRs are a key factor in patient wait times and how quickly test results can be obtained, the Sun reports

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.

Trans Atlantic Raw Camera DVD 60Mps - teleCHACHA
Date: 26.02.2004
Source: CANARIE-News (www.canarie.ca)

teleCHACHA between Montreal and Barcelona:

The telepresence application teleCHACHA successfully demonstrated its capabilities and quality of bi-directional video transmission in a conference between SAT (Montreal) and the Polytecnic University of Barcelona (UPC) and its network i2cat.net (Spain). Using 60Mb on the Canadian research network CA*net 4, the teleCHACHA application, developed by the SAT aRt&D research group in the Open Territories project funded by Heritage Canada and
its New Media Research Networks Fund, allowed several representatives of Forum 2004, of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) and of the Art Futura arts festival, to join discussions on exchanges and Canadian digital art performances planned in 2004 in Barcleona.

AlwaysOn (AO) 2003: The Innovation Summit
Date: 12.03.2003

Stanford Law School on the Stanford University Campus - Palo Alto, CA

July 15-17, 2003

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:

• It's a Great Time To Be An Innovator - VCs and entrepreneurs talk about why.
• Online Communities Take the Power Back - The real secret of the Internet.
• The Wireless Boom - Driving the next-generation of web surfing.
• Title Fight | Hollywood versus Silicon Valley - Can Hollywood go online and still make money?
• Will Web Services Kill the Software Industry? - The biggest challenge to the established players.
• The New Frontiers; China & India - Strength in numbers.
• The Real-Time Network - Smarter and faster connectivity.
• Always On/Always Vulnerable - The dark side of all things digital.
• More On Moore's Law - Does the old rule still apply?

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
AlwaysOn

CA*Net 3 - Who's Holding Back Broadband?
Date: 11.01.2002

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 vision was refreshingly new.

The key is "broadband." Broadband is the next generation of Internet service, and it could fuel the next great wave of Internet innovation. Broadband access is fast, and always on. It could deliver music or video content as well as applications that have not yet been imagined. It could offer innovators and creators a whole new platform on which to build. (more)

"Case Mix and Quality Assurance Conference"
Date: 2.11.2001

(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)

"e-Health 2002: A New Era of Health Care Delivery"
Date: 29.11.2001

"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)

CA*Net 3 - The Internet Under Siege
Date: 27.11.2001

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.
By: Lawrence Lessig

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.

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)

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)

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)

Future Revolution in Optical Networking - NSF Report

• View or download the full report here.

Broadband Internet Access for Everyone by 2004
March 2001

"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)"

Canada leads world in the development of fyber-optic networks

• Read the full article here.

Canada leads world in Internet usage

• Read the full article here.

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;

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSGF/it05488f.html

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)
Presentation given at the World Telemedicine Congress, Toulouse, France
by Dr Jocelyne Picot March 22, 2000