| Osler selects Siemens Canada as long-term partner
BRAMPTON, Ont. Siemens is bundling its expertise in the areas of healthcare, building automation, fire and security, and communications in delivering on an unprecedented contract awarded from William Osler Health Centre (WOHC) for the new Brampton Civic Hospital, located in Brampton, Ont. The contract awarded to Siemens will form the cornerstone of the healthcare solutions and clinical patient care services offered by WOHC.
The order includes Siemens Global Solutions, the healthcare consulting arm of the Medical Solutions Group, plus MRI, CT, Angio, MI (Nuclear Medicine), Cathlab, Womens Health, Urology, Radiography, RIS and PACS technologies. Working with WOHC, the Global Solutions group identified the key drivers and criteria that would provide the healthcare facility with a complete technology roadmap.
Web sites stripped of medical-device claims
As news spread of two federal investigations into dubious medical devices used throughout the Northwest, distributors and operators have purged their Web sites of the fraudulent claims that are under scrutiny. Two investigations, one by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the other by a U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, are focusing on two machines detailed in a recent Seattle Times investigation. The three-day series revealed how manufacturers and practitioners profit from treating people with unproven or fraudulent machines, some of them potentially dangerous, others illegal. The report detailed victims of a growing and largely unregulated field called "energy medicine" — alternative therapies based on the belief that the body has energy fields that can be manipulated to improve health.
Snoring? It Could Be Sleep Apnea
Loud snoring doesn't just annoy your spouse. It could signal dangerous sleep apnea, yet millions go undiagnosed. A government move may help change that: Medicare is poised to allow at-home testing for sleep apnea letting people snooze in their own beds instead of spending the night in a sleep laboratory. .
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