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 [...]

  “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 [...]