“There are surely no better people in this world than locals who find themselves at home.” –(Me) Guess what? I’ve suspected it for a while, but now I know. For me, local is still king. I recently found a stellar blog on pregnancy by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center here in Toronto. And it made [...]

Toronto’s Medicine 2.0 scene is heating up! Hot on the heels of my recent visit to the Center for Global eHealth Innovations in Toronto, the Center released an exciting new (and free!) iPhone app for Type I diabetics to track their blood sugar: Bant. Bant is short for Banting, the Canadian who discovered insulin at [...]

  Just wanted to post about VitalHub, the latest in iPhone + EMR — being developed and implemented in-house at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto! Watch the beautiful video of it in action, courtesy of the Apple website. The essentials: VitalHub allows health care professionals to access records from 66 applications being used at Mount [...]

  I thought it was about time to write a post about the woes of doctor-patient email. Last week, a friend was having some issues with his phone, so his family doctor’s office couldn’t get in touch to inform him of the date of his specialist’s appointment. He didn’t know about the trouble until he [...]

  “Geography is destiny in medicine.” –Jack Lord, MD In my undergrad English lit courses, I heard a lot about “character is destiny”. Which is a fancy way of blowing things out of proportion – e.g., Romeo and Juliet didn’t die via the quality of being “star-crossed”, but because they were super emo. Well, this [...]