The decades-long push to bring Canadian health care into the information age focused on building giant data repositories. Patients’ demands for electronic connections to their health care providers are not …
Digital health pioneer Eric Topol charts the impacts of genomics, wireless sensors, mobile devices and other digital heath information technologies.
Mention CGI to most people and the first thing that comes to mind—or appears on-screen in a Google search—is computer-generated imagery. But while you may not know about CGI, CGI …
Mismanagement by government e-health agencies and commercial turf battles are preventing researchers and patients from realizing many of the rewards that the “big data” era could deliver.
In the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, which encompasses most of Ontario’s northern land mass, with a total Aboriginal population of around 45 000 in 49 communities, more than 50% of the …
After the SARS disaster killed 44 people in Ontario in 2003, the federal government was advised by an expert panel to bolster a “system that will collect, analyze, and disseminate …
