Alberta Invests $10 Million in Healthcare AI Lab
Alberta’s government is committing C$10 million (≈US$7.4 million) over the next three years to launch a Health Innovation Lab run by the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). The lab will fund up to 12 AI‑driven health projects each year, targeting faster diagnoses, reduced wait times and greater system capacity. By linking world‑class AI talent with provincial health priorities, the initiative seeks to improve patient outcomes while generating economic spill‑overs. Successful pilots could become exportable solutions for other health systems worldwide.
Manitoba Backs AI in Healthcare Projects
Research Manitoba and the provincial government have committed more than $1.3 million CAD (about $0.96 million USD) to a suite of seven AI initiatives spanning healthcare, Indigenous innovation, social services, natural resources and cultural preservation. The Manitoba Solutions Grant will fund university‑led...
Ava Industries Wins Best EMR in Medtech Awards
Ava Industries, a physician‑built Canadian electronic medical record platform, was named Best Electronic Health Record Service in the 2026 MedTech Breakthrough Awards, a competition that attracted more than 4,000 global nominations. The award highlights Ava’s rapid growth, including migration of...
Alberta Health Court Case and the Podcasters
A King’s Bench judge authorized a search of podcasters David Wallace and James Di Fiore’s computers and phones after they launched a “no‑holds‑barred” campaign to harass Sandy Edmonstone, a potential witness in a wrongful‑dismissal suit against Alberta Health Services. Justice Michael Lema ruled...
SeamlessMD Launches Seamless Answers
SeamlessMD has launched Seamless Answers, a conversational AI feature that gives patients clinician‑approved answers to care questions around the clock. The tool, now generally available to all SeamlessMD clients, uses retrieval‑augmented generation to pull responses exclusively from each health system’s...
Nova Scotia Creates New Pathways for Medical Research
Nova Scotia has introduced a province‑wide consent framework that lets residents choose how to participate in medical research, from receiving study invitations to allowing use of their biological samples. The system is embedded in digital health tools such as MSI...
Sinai Health Partners with Unity Health on Epic
Sinai Health announced it will adopt Unity Health’s Epic electronic patient record (EPR) system, extending a shared digital platform across two major Toronto academic hospitals. The move follows Ontario’s 2025 directive urging hospitals to consolidate into province‑wide EPR environments, accelerating...
Unity Health Enhances DI Workflow with Sectra Cloud
International imaging firm Sectra will power Unity Health Toronto’s radiology and breast imaging across its three hospitals via the Sectra One Cloud platform. The fully managed, cloud‑based solution will unify access to over 500,000 annual imaging exams, enabling real‑time collaboration...
Reduce Length of Stay by Eliminating Hidden Delays
Hospitals often track length of stay, bed turnover and patient throughput, but hidden coordination failures—delayed consults, inefficient transfers, fragmented handoffs—drive hidden inefficiencies. Hypercare’s upcoming webinar will dissect where these breakdowns occur across departments and care transitions. Speakers include Dr. Karim...
CareChain Helps Assess MSK Patients Earlier
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is piloting CareChain, a digital platform from MultiCIM Technologies, to help physiotherapists conduct advanced musculoskeletal (MSK) assessments and triage patients who may need surgery. By standardising data collection and decision‑making, the tool aims to...
Leadless, Dual-Chamber Pacemakers for NB Patients
New Brunswick’s Horizon Heart Centre has become the first site in Canada to implant Abbott’s AVEIR DR dual‑chamber leadless pacemaker. The system uses two tiny, battery‑powered units—one in the right atrium and one in the right ventricle—that communicate wirelessly to mimic...
Kids Help Phone, TMU Awarded $3.2M by Wellcome
Kids Help Phone (KHP) and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) have secured a five‑year, $3.2 million Wellcome grant to create a generative‑AI conversation simulator for training KHP texting volunteers. The project will use more than 750,000 de‑identified KHP transcripts to generate realistic,...
VHA Tests AI-Powered Translation at Point-of-Care
VHA Home HealthCare launched a pilot from June to August 2025 to evaluate three AI‑powered translation tools for use by nurses, personal support workers and rehab providers in Ontario. The study measured usability, accuracy, workflow impact and feasibility across the...
Ontario AG Finds Flaws in AI Scribes
Ontario’s auditor general released a scathing report on AI‑driven medical scribes, revealing that a majority of the 20 evaluated systems produced hallucinated content and factual errors. Nine of the tools fabricated treatment recommendations, twelve recorded incorrect medications, and seventeen omitted...
New Medical Records System Expands in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Health launched the One Person One Record (OPOR) electronic medical records system this weekend in hospitals across Halifax, the Eastern Shore and West Hants. While the rollout promises to unify over 50 clinical workflows, staff have flagged incomplete...