It’s not a novelty for hospitals to be on Twitter anymore. Yet, when I mention that University Health Network is on Twitter, I still receive understandable looks of disbelief, wondering why would hospitals want to be on Twitter? What would they even tweet about? Isn’t one’s duration of involvement with a hospital inherently transient? [...]

  “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 [...]