| 2011 Healthcare Articles |
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| Bathing In An Electromagnetic Spectrum |
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Back in 1993 Carnegie Mellon University built the first campus-wide wireless Internet network, called Wireless Andrew at its Pittsburgh campus. In 2006 Lakehead University virtually banned Wi-Fi from its campuses in Thunder Bay, Ont., and Orillia, Ont. Last month parents and children from Grades one to five joined a picket line outside the York Region District School Board offices in Aurora to protest the use of WiFi in classrooms.
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 | Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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| Remember Remember The Month of Movember |
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Rules:
1. On October 31st, the complete moustache region, including the entire upper lip and the handlebar zones, must be completely shaved.
2. From November 1st to 30th, no hair shall be allowed to grow in the goatee zone, being any facial area below the bottom lip.
3. There is to be no joining of the moustache to sideburns.
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| Tuesday, November 1, 2011 |
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| IBM's Watson Earns a Doctoral Title |
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Watson is an artificial intelligence computer system, developed by IBM, that uses natural language techniques to process and answer questions. Watson was named after IBM's first president, Thomas J. Watson. According to IBM, Watson technology can process about 200 million pages of content in less than three seconds. Watson competed in a Man vs. Machine competition involving a 55 match series against Tournament of Champions-level contestants, the first round was broadcast February 14, 2011. Notably Watson beat Ken Jennings a Jeopardy champion who once had a 74-game winning streak.
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| Saturday, October 1, 2011 |
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| A Healthy Ontario |
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Canada weathered the most recent recession better than most nations with help from a robust banking sector, over a decade of budget surpluses, tax cuts implemented prior to the slowdown of world economies and later a government stimulus spending package. As October 6, 2011 approaches healthcare professionals and Ontarians alike have expressed that health care should be a key issue in the upcoming Ontario Provincial elections. A website where you can follow and learn about the ontario Provincial Elections can be found at: http://www.electionalmanac.com/canada/ontario
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| Thursday, September 1, 2011 |
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| 72 Million Dollar eHealth Ontario Initiative |
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Building a secure network on which patient data can travel, applications that enable users to record, store, and retrieve patient data and terminals or access points from which users can input and retrieve patient data must take a long time and cost millions of dollars to create. Billions of Dollars?
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| Monday, August 1, 2011 |
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| The Bio.Diaspora Project |
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On May 18th and 19th if you were one of the 2,600 attendees at the Discovery, Ontario Centres of Excellence 11 Tradeshow at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre you may have come across the Bio.Diaspora project one of the more than 330 exhibitors at the tradeshow. Bio.Diaspora is a scientific project dedicated to understanding how the world's population interacts through the global movement of travelers.
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| Friday, July 1, 2011 |
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| 3D Body Visual Search Engine |
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Healthline have partnered with GE to launch 3D Body Maps which is a web based human body visualization tool enabling a deeper understanding of human anatomy.
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| Wednesday, June 1, 2011 |
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| The Local and Social Factor |
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Before the advent of the internet medical information and advice came from friends, family and doctors. With the rise of the internet, search and social media, consumers are able to cast a wider net, gathering information from resources and communities that share a collective knowledge. Information about alternative remedies are also becoming widely available to the masses. When searching online for health topics consumers are seeking answers and deciding whether the sum of symptoms requires seeing a doctor.
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| Sunday, May 1, 2011 |
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| Trimming the Fat of OHIP Excellence |
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The Canadian government is proposing a number of changes to OHIP coverage for a number of healthcare services as well as out of country OHIP funded procedures.
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| Friday, Apr 1, 2011 |
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| North York General Hospital and IBM Improving Patient Healthcare |
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On Thursday January 20th, 2011 North York General Hospital and IBM launched an initiative aimed at improving patient care and hospital efficiency. North York General Hospital is using new analytics software developed by IBM, which gathers patient and hospital data and presents it in real time for doctors, administrators and other hospital staff.
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| Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 |
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| Let's Get Active Toronto |
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Over the past decade the Canadian health budget has doubled and currently stands at $120 billion per year. 46% of the Ontario budget goes to healthcare while Canadians are currently spending more than 20 billion dollars a year on medicine and drugs, which could be better applied to the social factors that result in poor health.
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| Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011 |
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| The Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Qualifications |
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The Government of Canada has been actively involved in improving services to help new Canadians successfully integrate and access citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism services.
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| Saturday, Jan 1, 2011 |
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