Launch of New Digital Health Portal for Patients
Vancouver Coastal Health, Providence Health Care and the Provincial Health Services Authority have launched AccessMyHealth, a new digital portal that gives eligible British Columbia residents direct online access to their medical records, including notes, appointments, lab results and allergies. The portal integrates with the CST Cerner electronic health record system and is accessible through the provincial Health Gateway using a BC Services Card for users aged 12 and older. While the portal covers data from participating VCH, PHC and PHSA sites, labs and imaging from other provincial providers remain in the separate Health Gateway system. The rollout aligns with British Columbia’s Digital Health Strategy to increase patient empowerment and person‑centered care.
Doctors Push Back on Fast Epic Rollout in NL
Newfoundland and Labrador's health authority plans to launch the Epic‑based CorCare electronic health record system on April 25, but more than 250 physicians have signed a petition demanding a phased rollout. Doctors argue the mandatory 35‑page contract and simultaneous deployment...
Cheshire Deploys GoldCare to Strengthen Consumer Independence
Cheshire Independent Living Services in London, Ontario has rolled out GoldCare’s integrated healthcare software, including a consumer portal that offers real‑time access to personal attendant schedules. The portal empowers consumers and families with direct visibility, enhancing autonomy and reducing reliance...
Standardizing Health Data for Good Medicine and Connected Care
On March 31 2026 the Canadian Institute for Health Information released Version 2 of the Canadian Core Data for Interoperability (CACDI), a national standard that defines core patient, clinical, and provider data for seamless exchange. Co‑designed with patients, clinicians, Indigenous groups and digital‑health...
Hypercare Mobilizes Vascular Team During ‘Life and Limb’ Emergencies
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie completed a one‑year pilot of Hypercare for its Vascular Life and Limb emergency pathway. The platform replaced individual phone calls with a single‑tap, secure group alert, cutting hospital acceptance time from 15 minutes...
Medly Heart Monitoring Enters Commercialization Through Vitall
Medly, a smartphone‑based remote monitoring system for heart‑failure patients developed by Toronto’s University Health Network, is now being commercialized by Vitall Intelligence. The platform gathers weight, blood pressure and heart‑rate data via Bluetooth devices and uses an algorithm to flag...
Neurosurgeons at St. Michael’s Use Low-Field MRI to Assist Surgeries
Neurosurgeons at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital have begun using the Hyperfine Swoop® low‑field MRI scanner inside the operating room to obtain immediate post‑resection images. The portable 0.064‑tesla device can be wheeled into the suite, allowing scans within minutes while surgeons...
University of Ottawa Launches New Applied AI Centre for Healthcare
The University of Ottawa has inaugurated the Ottawa Medical Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (OMARI), an applied‑research hub embedded in its Faculty of Medicine and linked to the city’s six hospitals. Led by AI expert Dr. Khaled El Emam, OMARI aims to...
Virtual ED Helps Reduce Waits for some Patients
Sault Area Hospital’s virtual ER waiting room, launched last August, has halved the time patients wait to see a clinician for low‑acuity issues. The same tool also reduced overall emergency department stay by 50% for eligible users. Patients enroll via...
Interoperability Standard Proposed for Senior Living
The Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI) has launched exploratory work on a National Standard of Canada called Elder Living Open Architecture (ELOA) to enable interoperability among senior‑living operational technologies. The multi‑part specification will define data models for the resident lifecycle,...
7T MRI at Sunnybrook Used in Parkinson’s Care
Sunnybrook’s Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and the Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation are leveraging a new 7‑Tesla MRI to enhance deep brain stimulation (DBS) for advanced Parkinson’s disease. The ultra‑high‑field scanner delivers unprecedented anatomical detail, allowing surgeons to place electrodes with...
AI Tool Reduces Time to Prepare Discharge Summaries
Fraser Health has deployed an artificial‑intelligence tool within its Meditech Expanse platform to automate discharge summary creation. The pilot, involving roughly 60 clinicians, cut average drafting time from 12.5 minutes to 5.5 minutes per patient. Users report the draft‑and‑review workflow...
OpenText Applies AI to Faxing
OpenText unveiled its AI‑powered Fax Aviator at HIMSS, aiming to modernize healthcare fax workflows. The solution claims up to 85% labor savings by automating extraction, classification, and routing, and can process 2‑3 times more faxes without additional staff. Features such...
Canada Still Lags Globally on DI: Study
A new Fraser Institute report finds Canada lags dramatically behind other universal‑health‑care nations in both the quantity and age of diagnostic imaging equipment. Canada ranks 27th for MRI machines and 28th for CT scanners per capita, with more than one‑third...
London Team Uses MRI in OR for Quick Feedback
London Health Sciences Centre surgeons performed the world’s first pituitary tumor removal using a Hyperfine Swoop portable MRI. The low‑field 0.064 T scanner was wheeled into the operating room, delivering real‑time images of the gland and surrounding vessels. Immediate intra‑operative feedback...
U of T to Partner with India on Health AI
The University of Toronto and the Indian Institute of Science announced a joint centre of excellence to develop AI‑driven predictive healthcare tools. The partnership, unveiled in Mumbai, is part of a broader Canada‑India Talent and Innovation Strategy and includes a...
Kindly Supports Those Caring for Aging Loved Ones
Kindly, a Canadian‑founded tech firm, has launched a national care‑navigation platform that blends AI with licensed experts to support families caring for aging loved ones. Backed by TD Innovation Partners, Felix Health and Halo Health, the service is being offered...
Ontario Hospitals on Verge of Financial Crisis
Ontario hospitals face a looming financial crisis as operating costs climb 6% yearly while government funding rises only 4%, creating a $1 billion structural deficit. Hospitals have exhausted reserve funds and identified $500 million in cost‑saving opportunities, the limit before patient care...
A Roadmap to Connect Every Ontarian to Care
Ontario’s Primary Care Action Team aims to attach every resident to a primary care provider, but OHTs face a digital infrastructure gap. An executive briefing on March 31 will showcase modular, HALO‑aligned solutions that streamline access through single sign‑on, AI navigation,...
MEDITECH Enhances Ambient Intelligence Solutions
MEDITECH announced at HIMSS26 the expansion of its Expanse AI portfolio with native ambient intelligence integrated into the Expanse Now mobile app for physicians and Expanse Point of Care app for nurses. The solution captures real‑time conversations, automatically generates visit...
Alifor Launches Partnership with Piat, Study in Nigeria
Alifor announced a strategic partnership with Piat Public Health to embed implementation science into its AI‑driven clinical workflow platform. The collaboration will launch a six‑month study at General Hospital Lagos’ trauma centre, evaluating whether the system improves documentation, triage consistency,...
Novari Referral Tech Deployed at Niagara Health
Novari Health, a VitalHub company, is rolling out its Medical Imaging Requisition Management (MIRM) and eRequest referral platforms across all Niagara Health sites. The deployment adds an AI‑driven Document AI layer that auto‑populates data, detects multiple referrals, and verifies patient...
Ontario Invests $250M to Support Medical Isotopes
Ontario announced a $250 million provincial guarantee through the Indigenous Opportunities Financing Program to back Bruce Power’s expansion of medical isotope production. The deal partners the nuclear operator with the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, promising hundreds of well‑paid jobs and a boost...
Montreal Heart Launches Simulation Centre
The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) has opened the Centre for Advanced Simulation in Heart Valve Therapy, the first high‑fidelity valve simulation centre in the Americas. Acquired from Simulands, the platform supports training across transcatheter, repair and emerging minimally invasive procedures....
CHEO’s ThinkRare Algorithm Goes National
The CHEO Research Institute’s pediatric AI tool, ThinkRare, is moving beyond its home site to McMaster Children’s Hospital, Alberta Children’s Hospital and Stollery Children’s Hospital, marking one of Canada’s first national deployments of a real‑time, clinically embedded AI algorithm. ThinkRare...
The Team Behind H.A.L.O. Wins UHN’s Inventor of the Year Award
An interdisciplinary team at University Health Network (UHN) received the Mission of Excellence Team Inventor of the Year Award for creating H.A.L.O., a remote patient monitoring system. Launched as a company in early 2025, H.A.L.O. now operates across 50 inpatient...
Schroeder Ambulatory Centre Aims to Reduce Backlogs
The Schroeder Ambulatory Centre (SAC), a $300 million private non‑profit facility in Richmond Hill, Ontario, has opened its doors with operating rooms, MRI, CT and GI endoscopy capabilities while awaiting full accreditation. It secured $14 million from the provincial government to deliver...
Trillium Health Partners Deploys Clinical AI to Provide Faster, Safer Care
Trillium Health Partners has launched a clinical AI application that automatically detects intracranial hemorrhage on head CT scans, flagging urgent cases in real time. The tool, sourced through Sectra Amplifier Services, also identifies midline shift, mass effect and skull fractures,...
Synthetic Data Breaks Biggest Bottleneck: Access to High-Quality Data
Canadian researchers have built synthetic populations at the health‑region level to simulate pandemic scenarios without exposing personal health data. Synthetic data, generated by machine‑learning models trained on real records, promises faster access for developers and mitigates privacy barriers that traditionally...
North York General Smooths ED Flow Using AI
North York General Hospital has become the first Ontario facility to launch SmartER Zones, an AI‑driven system that reallocates patients to less crowded emergency‑department zones. Developed with Signal 1, the algorithm monitors wait times, triage data and zone capacity, then pushes...
Unity Health Achieves High HIMSS Standings
Unity Health Toronto earned Stage 6 validation on both the HIMSS EMRAM and AMAM maturity models, marking the first time all three of its hospitals reached EMRAM Stage 6 and the first North American organization to achieve AMAM Stage 6 under the latest...
Manitoba Introduces ‘Safety App’ for Healthcare
Manitoba's health ministry announced a provincewide rollout of the SAFE mobile app, extending its use from Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre to Brandon Regional Health Centre, St. Boniface, Victoria and upcoming sites in Thompson. The app provides emergency notifications, direct security...
Danaher to Buy Masimo in $9.9 Billion Deal in Diagnostics Push
Danaher announced a $9.9 billion acquisition of Masimo, a leader in pulse‑oximetry and AI‑enabled patient‑monitoring devices. The deal places Masimo as a standalone operating company within Danaher’s Diagnostics segment alongside Radiometer, Cepheid and Beckman Coulter. By adding non‑invasive sensor technology, Danaher...
Sioux Lookout Uses Modular Design for First MRI
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre received two prefabricated modular buildings for its new MRI suite on Feb 18, after a 1,100‑km transport on a 130‑ft super‑load truck. The 1,650‑sq‑ft, magnet‑shielded facility, built off‑site by SDI Canada, is now positioned...
CPhA Drug Database Now Available for Integration
The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) launched the CPS Content Partner Program, offering API‑based access to its trusted Canadian drug and therapeutic database. The initiative allows EMR vendors, pharmacy management systems, clinical decision support tools, and AI‑enabled health apps to integrate...
UHN’s Medly Now Available Through VITALL
VITALL Intelligence has launched the commercial availability of Medly®, a Health Canada‑approved digital therapeutic for heart failure developed at the University Health Network. The AI‑enhanced smartphone app, already used by more than 3,000 patients, has demonstrated a 50 % reduction in...
NB Releases New Digital Health Strategy
New Brunswick’s government unveiled a comprehensive digital health strategy aimed at creating a modern, connected, and patient‑centred system. The plan expands the “digital front door,” modernizes electronic health records, and introduces AI‑driven tools to streamline provider workflows. It allocates a...
Dennis Giokas Now CPO at Alifor
Dennis Giokas has been appointed chief product officer at Alifor, a Toronto‑based clinical operating system that integrates AI scribes, decision support and workflow tools. Giokas will steer product development, integration strategy and the global rollout of Alifor’s EMR‑agnostic platform. He...
INOVAIT Announces Innovation Award Winners
INOVAIT announced the 2025/26 award winners at its Ottawa meeting, honoring Altis Labs with the Maple Leaf Award for AI imaging collaborations, Nova Scotia Health with the Aurora Borealis Award for industry‑academic synergy, and Profound Medical with the Mount Logan...
NS Trucks Paper Records to Ontario
Nova Scotia Health is sending about 900 boxes of paper health records to Iron Mountain in Toronto for digitization as part of its effort to clear a massive backlog ahead of the One Person One Record rollout. Employees and the...
NWT Looks at Acquiring MRI Scanner
The Northwest Territories is conducting a feasibility study to install an MRI scanner at Yellowknife’s Stanton Territorial Hospital, aiming to end the practice of sending patients to Alberta for scans. Health Minister Lesa Semmler highlighted that the study will assess...
Infoway Pulls the Plug on PrescribeIT
Canada Health Infoway announced that its e‑prescribing platform PrescribeIT will be discontinued on May 29, ending a program that has cost more than $250 million since its 2017 launch. The service never achieved scale, with fewer than 5 percent of prescriptions routed through...
