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23 Oct 2017
Posted by oculys
Lazaridis Scale-Up company, Oculys Health Informatics, recently won 3rd place in a global healthcare technology competition, the Interface Healthcare Challenge 2017. [Read More…]
The WRHA said it will introduce a new online public reporting system next week, ideally on Oct. 3. While some estimated wait times were already provided on the authority’s website, the WRHA said the new version will offer patients a more realistic timeline. The new system will be provided through Oculys, the province’s electronic bed management system. [Read More…]
Three informatics tools were implemented that let patients know how long they would have to wait in the ED in real time, provide solutions in an accurate and accessible visual format, and address challenges of healthcare leaders, physicians, clinicians and patients. [Read More…]
During his tour, MPP Bailey was thrilled to see the hospital’s new Discharge Planning Board, a large electronic monitoring board that has been in operation since April 17th and tracks various data about patients, including safety and care considerations, along with discharge information. [Read More…]
“By building powerful tools for communication and collaboration between physicians and specialists, we can tackle one of the biggest problems in healthcare and dramatically improve wait times to deliver quality care when it is most important to patients – in real-time! We proudly chose BBM Enterprise as our cross-platform backbone communication technology for security and reliability that is second to none.” [Read More…]
This innovative solution called stayTrack was designed by Oculys Health Informatics, of Waterloo. It was rolled out at St. Mary’s under a demonstration project which received funding from the Ontario Centres of Excellence, as well as in-kind funding from Oculys [Read More…]
Though the end result is a simple-to understand view, the engineering behind the Oculys solution is complex. Formed in 2011 and known for developing a real-time emergency department wait clock in conjunction with St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener, Ont., the company also works closely with academics at the University of Waterloo. [Read More…]
It’s evident from research that information technology can be an enabler in empowering organizational operations and driving improvement, ultimately to the benefit of patients. To this end, the ESC LHIN and Oculys have collaborated to create the first regional LHIN-view tool to provide real-time information for dealing with flow processes in and between hospitals. [Read More…]
The ED Wait Time Clock initiative is part of Sault Area Hospital’s (SAH) Patient Flow
Redesign efforts to improve the patient experience and access to care. The goal of Patient
Flow Redesign is to place patients who need to be admitted into an inpatient bed as soon
as possible so that the appropriate care and treatment are not delayed. The ED Wait Time
Clock will support patient flow efforts by providing patients with information to make informed
decisions about how and when to access Emergency care. [Read More…]
The Lazaridis Institute has selected 10 of Canada’s most promising emerging technology companies to participate in its inaugural Canadian Scale-Up Program. The highly anticipated program will bring these high-potential firms together with an elite group of experts, all of whom have experience in scaling globally competitive enterprises.[Read More…]