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Information on the health care industry in Canada.
Health care companies of Canada :
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Extendicare
Extendicare Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: EXE.un) is a
Toronto, Ontario based company that operates 440 long-term care facilities
across North America. The company became a REIT and began trading on the TSX on
November 10, 2006 under the symbol EXE.UN.
ParaMed Home Health Care is a division of Extendicare (Canada) Inc. ParaMed was
founded more than 30 years ago. It is currently the largest home care provider
in Ontario. ParaMed also operates in Alberta.
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LASIK MD
LASIK MD is Canada's leading provider of laser vision
correction. As of 2007, LASIK MD performs approximately 40% of the laser vision
correction procedures in Canada.
LASIK MD was founded in 2001 by Dr. Mark Cohen and Dr. Avi Wallerstein with two
initial clinics in Montreal, Canada and Toronto, Canada. As of 2007, there are
18 LASIK MD eye centres located across Canada, and one in the United States. The
clinics serve all major metropolitan areas throughout Canada. LASIK MD is a
provider of laser vision correction, performing LASIK, PRK and Zyoptix
procedures. The LASIK MD centre in Montreal is the largest private eye care
centre in the province of Quebec and also performs cataract surgeries.
LASIK MD Montreal location is a training center for LASIK for Canadian laser eye
surgeons. It is a non-hospital based facility accredited by the College of
Physicians of Quebec for the training of laser vision correction to ophthalmic
surgery residents. This accreditation was obtained via the University of
Sherbrooke.
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Ontario Telemedicine
Network
The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) is an independent,
not-for-profit organization that is funded by the Government of Ontario.
"Telemedicine" (TM) is the delivery of health-related services and information
using telecommunications technologies. Using two-way videoconferencing systems
and tele-diagnostic instruments like digital stethoscopes, otoscopes and patient
examination cameras, OTN helps deliver clinical care and professional education
among health care providers and patients.
OTN is transforming the way patients can receive needed health care by extending
and enhancing access to health care providers and eliminating barriers to care,
all across Ontario.
OTN’s vision is for telemedicine to become a mainstream channel for health care
delivery and education. In other words, conducting visits via telemedicine will
become as normal and everyday as traditional face-to-face office visits or
in-person professional education sessions.
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