Upcoming Digital Media Events in Ontario
Digital media professionals do more than create software and content that entertain the masses. They also play a big part in helping medical professionals work together to improve patient care and save lives. On October 14, Interactive Ontario is hosting Interact: Hacking Healthcare in Toronto. This two-hour event from 6-8 p.m. is for digital media […]
Hacking Health could lead to health-care IT innovations
The Globe and Mail recently profiled a somewhat unorthodox approach, the “hacker way,” to jumpstarting the dinosaur system of Canadian healthcare IT. The “Hacker Way” is a loose model for rapidly solving problems through intense “jam sessions” wherein programmers and developers work on creating solutions in an extended, continuous time period (a weekend, for example). “[A]bout […]