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Universal healthcare has been a point of pride in Canada since the Pearson government jumped on Tommy Douglas’s bandwagon and introduced the Medical Care Act in 1966. When managed well, universal healthcare is a beautiful thing. Unfortunately, governments keep kicking the healthcare can down the road, where it’s been run over by cutbacks and healthcare shortages and knocked into murky sinkholes filled with neglected systems and rapid population expansion.
Fortunately, plenty of people are still working to address these urgent issues, and many are using digital technology to speed up this work without compromising quality.
Patient monitoring simplified
Two of these people are Dr. Michael Gross, an orthopedic surgery professor at Dalhousie University and founder of InkWell Health, and John Matthews, InkWell Health’s CEO. The company produces a cost-effective patient monitoring system that uses temporary tattoos and smartphone cameras to keep tabs on post-op orthopedic patients after they go home.
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