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Volume 19, Number 20, September 28, 2022

FACTS AND STATS

Is Artificial Intelligence the Pill that Healthcare Needs?

It’s estimated that overall, anywhere from 15 to 35 per cent of healthcare hours could be automated, according to a 2020 report by McKinsey and Co., a consulting firm, in conjunction with EIT Health, a division of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. But where that number ultimately lands will depend on how willing the medical community is to adopt artificial intelligence, say the report’s authors.
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DIGITAL HEALTH

Interoperability in Healthcare: Better Connectivity for Better Patient Care

Improving interoperability in healthcare will enhance the services delivered by clinicians, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes. It delivers secure access and integration of electronic health data so it can be used to optimise health outcomes. By bringing together patient information from multiple trusted sources, healthcare providers and patients will have greater visibility of accurate information that leads to better decisions, which in turn leads to better outcomes.
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Advancing Interoperability to Support Informed Healthcare

The continued adoption of health information technology — namely EHR systems — has laid a foundation for more robust care coordination. However, the reality is many providers still lack the tools to reconcile external health data with what is documented in their local records. As a result, potentially valuable data go underutilized.
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MEDICAL GADGETS

Scientists Invent New Material to Improve Drug Delivery to Patients

Researchers from Western University have developed a material that could eventually improve the way drugs are administered to patients, by allowing doctors to "see" exactly whether drugs are reaching the targets and working properly.
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Face Mask Detects Respiratory Viruses, Alerts User

Scientists at Shanghai Tongji University in China have created a face mask that can alert the wearer to the presence of respiratory viruses in the surrounding environment, including the viruses behind COVID-19 and influenza. The mask sends a message to the wearer’s smartphone within 10 minutes of detecting a virus. The technology could be very valuable for healthcare staff or vulnerable patients who are at high risk of severe disease.
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Soft Robot Biodegrades Inside Body

Researchers at the City University of Hong Kong have developed a magnetic soft millirobot that can grab and release objects, and move around by rolling. The device can be controlled using magnetic fields, and consists of a biodegradable gelatin and iron oxide microparticles.
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GLOBAL WATERCOOLER

Humanizing the Digital Experience in Healthcare

An annual survey conducted by Cedar revealed that 49% of healthcare consumers wish that their digital healthcare experience was smoother and more closely emulated Netflix, Amazon or Uber. Where other industries provide personalized and engaging technology, healthcare falls short, but investing in the right patient engagement tools that tailor experiences will help to combat rising expectations.
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How Digital Improvements Can Aid the NHS Backlog

Since the UK repealed its final COVID-19 laws, many of us have enjoyed a long-awaited, carefree return to relative normality. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for those using, and working in, healthcare. The NHS backlog, caused by the disruption of normal care by urgent treatment for COVID patients, is still growing in size.
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TRENDS

The Future of Healthcare and How Technological Breakthroughs will Impact It

The influence of IOTs on the healthcare industry is enormous. The healthcare sector is evolving globally to become a well-coordinated, user-centric, and more effective system. The advancing technology of IoT is propelling revolutionary and life-improving solutions throughout the healthcare industry. IoT accelerates process automation, and the benefits are unlimited.
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News From Canada

'I Know That it Saved My Life’: Can Virtual Healthcare Ease Canada’s ER Crisis?

Wait times for diagnostic imaging are lengthy across the country, so a patient had to wait at least two months for the scan, but within hours of leaving the CT the appointment, the virtual-care physician was calling him. He had a mass on his cerebellum that needed to come out right away.
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88% of Benefits Plan Sponsors Satisfied with Virtual Healthcare Offerings

A majority (88 per cent) of benefits plan sponsors are very (34 per cent) or somewhat (54 per cent) satisfied with their organization’s virtual health-care offerings, up from nearly three-quarters (74 per cent) in 2021, according to the 2022 Benefits Canada Healthcare Survey.
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Modern Security for Future Healthcare

Security vulnerabilities have increased in the healthcare industry due to the evolution of medical technology and the rapid transition to electronic health records (EHRs). Since the onset of the pandemic, cyber criminals have honed in on this sector and are taking advantage of these modern access points.
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Securing Public Trust in Digital Healthcare

Canada’s Privacy Commissioners and Ombudspersons with responsibility for privacy oversight across the country call on governments, health sector institutions and health providers to show concerted effort, leadership, and resolve in implementing modern, secure and interoperable digital health communication infrastructure.
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A Canadian First: Montreal App is Redefining Accessible At-Home Healthcare

With hospital closures, worsening staffing shortages, and more than 800,000 people on the waiting list for a family doctor in Quebec alone, access to proper healthcare is becoming more and more difficult One local mobile application is hoping to ease some of that tension by bridging the gap between patients and healthcare practitioners.
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Nursing Students in Canada Need More Education about Digital Health: Study

Canada’s nursing school graduates are not as ready as they should be for the digital transformation happening in healthcare, according to a University of Alberta researcher. Nurses need better education to keep up with the fast pace of innovation — from robots at the bedside to virtual care and virtual reality treatments to electronic health records — not to mention research discoveries driven by artificial intelligence.
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New Mobile App Will Improve Access to Health Records

Health Gateway is a new, secure app version of the Health Gateway website that anyone can download from the Apple App Store or Google Play for Android mobile devices for free. Users will need to use their BC Services Card app to register and log in.
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Study Looks at Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Primary Healthcare

For this study, former graduate student Jaky Kueper, Lizotte and co-principal investigator Amanda Terry conducted 14 in-depth interviews with primary healthcare and digital health stakeholders in Ontario. Kueper, now a TechForward Fellow in AI at The College of Family Physicians of Canada, is the first-ever Western student to complete a combined PhD in epidemiology and computer science.
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Understanding Privacy’s Role in Enabling Interoperability

There are many challenges to enabling interoperability in healthcare within and across jurisdictions — there is a plethora of IT systems speaking different languages in a multitude of care settings across several jurisdictions, each with unique needs and requirements. A lot of work needs to be done — and is being done — to enable data to flow across these silos. 
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