The Techna Institute

Techna Leaders Win Edison Award!

Dr. Dante Morra, Techna’s Director of Process Redesign and Director of the Centre for Innovation and Complex Care (CICC), Dr. Peter Rossos, Techna’s clinical lead of the ICT core and member of the CICC, and the Clinical Messageâ„¢ team have won the coveted 2012 Bronze Edison Award in the Science/Medical Category. The…[Read more]

Join us for Techna Rounds! We are excited to welcome Dr. Gabor Fichtinger as our next speaker for Techna Rounds. Dr. Fichtinger is a Professor of Computer Science at Queen’s University and holds multiple adjunct and cross-appointments at Queen’s and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Fichtinger’s research is focused on image…[Read more]

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jonathan Irish, clinical lead in Guided Therapeutics, for his re-appointment as Provincial Head, Surgical Oncology Program at Cancer Care Ontario for a three-year term. This appointment highlights Dr. Irish’s focus on improving standards of care and surgical oncology outcomes throughout the province; a focus t…[Read more]

My apologies to all. Dr. Fernie’s talk is on Thursday March 29th, not the 28th. Please see corrected details below:

Speaker: Dr. Geoff Fernie, Director Rehabilitation Research, Toronto Rehab-UHN

Title: Practical solutions to problems faced by most of us as we age

Where: Banting Institute, 100 College Street, Lecture hall room 131

When:…[Read more]

Mark your calendars! We are excited to have Dr. Geoff Fernie, Director Rehabilitation Research Toronto Rehab-UHN, as our next speaker for Techna Rounds.

Seminar Title: Practical solutions to problems faced by most of us as we age

Where: Banting Institute, 100 College Street, Lecture hall room 131

When: Thursday March 28th, 2012 from 5-6 pm

Head and neck surgurical procedures are technically demanding due the number critical structures in the surrounding areas. Go to our “Feature Technologies” tab and read how Localized Intraoperative Virtual Endoscopy (LIVE) Image Guided Surgery will assist a surgeon by providing a virutal representation of their surgical drill, and the…[Read more]

Dr. Jonathan Irish, Techna’s co-lead in Guided Therapeutics, is on the cover of the current issue of Canadian Healthcare Technology discussing Techna’s new TRIGOR A facility. See how Drs. Irish and Kazuhiro Yasufuku will use TRIGOR A to advance the practice of image-guided surgery…[Read more]

Medicine 2.0 ’12 – the 5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web2.0 in Health and Medicine, Boston, Sept 15-16th, 2012, at Harvard Medical School, is still accepting abstracts until March 7th, 2012. This conference was founded by Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, Techna’s co-Director of Communication and Knowledge Tra…[Read more]

Celebrate with Techna and UHN, in partnership with Precision X-ray Inc., the 10th installation of the pre-clinical Image Guided X-Ray Irradiation System, the X-RAD 225Cx, at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Invented and developed by Drs. David Jaffray and Richard Hill, the X-RAD 225Cx is a platform…[Read more]

What is VIC? The Virtual Interactive Case (VIC) system is software created to simulate patient encounters in clinics. It is completely customizable by educators and will enable users to practice and implement their knowledge in realistic scenarios. Learn more about VIC on our Featured Technology tab.

Please join us for the inaugural Techna round on February 28th, 2012. Dr. Jonathan Irish and the GTx core has invited Dr. Andreas Melzer, the Director of the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT) from the University of Dundee, to present his work on MRI-guided intervention and surgery.

Seminar Title: Integrated Interventional…[Read more]

Construction of TRIGOR A has begun!

Visit the main page of http://technainstitute.com to view a photo.

This week’s featured technology is Image Guided Perfexion (IGP). Learn about IGP and how it will change the way patients requiring stereotactic radiation therapy are treated in our Featured Technologies tab.

Visit our new ”Featured Technology” tab. We will be updating this page perdiodically with novel and emerging technologies in healthcare. In the spotlight today are Porphysomes!