Change with the times, and the tech

New technologies are rocking the field of health care, making inroads and influencing medical approaches and advancements. Whether the innovation is invisible during a clinical visit, or as obvious as the electronics we wear or see in an emergency room, they contribute to the excellence of health care delivery in Canada. Big data comes with a big imprint. Patient data -- from routine checkups, remote and virtual care, and personal health wearables -- is driving medical research. Precision medicine requires even larger data sets and now increasingly specific genomes.