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INSIDE: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING PAGE 14 Technology fuels burnout In an Ontario Medical Association survey, technology, and specifically issues involving tech usage, were at the top of the list of reasons physicians cited for burnout. Page 6
Improving access to care According to Statistics Canada, roughly 4.6 million Canadians in 2019 didn’t have access to a family healthcare provider, an issue the booming telehealth industry is trying to address. Page 10
Securing health information While we have seen impressive advancements in virtual care and digital health tools during the pandemic, a recent survey found that 74 per cent of Canadians are worried about the privacy and security of their personal health information. Page 12
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VoxNeuro’s data-driven future of brain health VoxNeuro, a Canadian neuroscience and health tech company, has developed a 30-minute, non-invasive Cognitive Health Assessment that records tens of thousands of data-points from a patient’s brain waves while they perform a series of tasks on a computer. The company’s medical software then rapidly analyzes, transforms and compares the patient data to a database of healthy cognitive function. SEE STORY ON PAGE 8.
MGH leverages Connexall to enable SMART expansion
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ORONTO – Michael Garron Hospi-
tal (MGH) is a busy community facility serving over 400,000 people in 22 neighbourhoods across East Toronto. The hospital is currently expanding its site with an eight-floor tower and an additional three-floor extension that will add 500,000 square feet of clinical space to the medical centre. With the opening of their new building (known as the Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre), expected to open sometime in late 2022, the hospital will expand its use of Connexall’s enterprise platform. It’s the largest construction project in the hospital’s history, with an estimated cost of $560 million. At the same time, MGH is engaged in master planning via ‘Project Imagine’, an ef-
fort to re-design healthcare and create an intelligent, “connected” hospital. One of the hospital’s key challenges was to determine how to connect clinicians, staff, patients and equipment in real-time, making it possible to communicate instantly and
It’s the largest construction project in the hospital’s history, with an estimated cost of $560 million. locate people and resources as soon as possible. To achieve this strategically, MGH chose to leverage its existing partnership with Connexall, an industry leader in clinical communication and collaboration. Simplified approach and system architecture: Hospitals utilize a multitude of sys-
tems and associated devices. Connexall integrates its solutions in healthcare facilities without having to make any additional investment to update their current infrastructure or replace their existing vendor relationships. The company’s sophisticated enterprise-grade platform and suite of solutions are vendor and device agnostic, supporting all types of systems and devices that hospitals use now and plan to use in the future. One such solution within Connexall’s portfolio is the MobileConnex application, an extension of its enterprise grade platform. The app will be a standard tool aiding clinical and corporate staff via integrating information from different systems into single mobile device interface from C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2