Google Health Canda? Your Health Records and EMR

I always wondered what would happen if Google Health decided to launch in Canada. Would there be an effect on the Canadian Healthcare system? Or would PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) get in the way?
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About a year ago Google announced that it would launch a service to allow users to store their [...]

Can health care make voice interfaces viable?

One of the big surprises in my career, watching technology develop, has been the failure of voice interfaces. Chalk it up to accents and the complexity of English. Listen to a Southerner or a Scotsman and the problem becomes obvious. Better yet try listening to your kids.
The only way to make it work is to [...]

Enabling Key Data Sharing in Clinical Settings

Intel Corporation today announced Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, software that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks. The product will allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with one another so that each can provide better care while benefiting from reduced integration costs.
Until now, the sharing [...]

Motion Computing Licenses Wi-LAN Wireless Technologies

Motion Computing produces slate tablet PCs for mobile professionals in industries including healthcare, government, and field force automation. Motion is a mobile computing and wireless communications leader, combining world-class innovation and industry experience so individuals can use computing technology in new ways and places.
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Stepping up to improve health care

Engineering techniques can be used to eliminate inefficiencies in Canada’s health care system, as the work by a new Toronto research centre shows. In the modern race to innovate, the health care industry is lagging decades behind manufacturing and other service industries. Michael Carter is ready to launch a game of catch-up.
As head of the [...]

Medical experts support battle cry for PET scanners

They’re considered a vital tool in diagnosing cancer and deciding how to treat it.
But in Ontario, cancer patients don’t have access to PET scanners — imaging technology around for almost 30 years but still considered experimental in this province. “If I was a cancer patient, I would definitely scream for this technology that will [...]

GE Healthcare Spotlights Latest Innovations

GE Healthcare, the global leader in healthcare technology, continually strives to re-invent and re-imagine its product portfolio. Some of its latest innovations are on display this week at the 57th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago.
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