TORONTO – 16 Bit Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a De Novo marketing authorization for Rho, an AI-enabled software device aimed at improving a known care gap in osteoporosis screening. Rho received Breakthrough Device designation by the FDA in March 2021, signifying the first FDA-authorized radiology software for opportunistic evaluation of low bone mineral density (BMD).
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HALIFAX – Densitas, a global leader in artificial intelligence solutions for breast cancer screening, announces the commercial release of intelliMaven, a groundbreaking GPT AI assistant for mammography quality. Together with Densitas’ flagship product intelliMammo, intelliMaven provides scalable and sustainable quality assurance for mammography facilities to meet FDA MQSA EQUIP compliance and ACR accreditation requirements.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra announced that it will provide enterprise imaging in the cloud through its subscription model, Sectra One Cloud, to Halton Healthcare in Canada. The fully managed cloud service will enable Halton Healthcare to streamline operations, consolidate IT systems maintenance, reinforce data security, and scale their use of the solution as needed for improved patient care.
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TORONTO – PocketHealth, a leader in patient-centric medical image exchange, announced it has raised US$33 million ($45 million CAD) in Series B funding. The round was led by Round13 Capital with participation from Deloitte Ventures, Samsung Next, and existing investors Questa Capital and Radical Ventures.
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VANCOUVER – The federal government announced almost $14 million in PacifiCan funding to help seven Vancouver-based businesses and organizations in British Columbia grow even faster. The funding announced today includes over $11.5 million for four companies through PacifiCan’s Business Scale-Up and Productivity program and over $2.4 million for three companies through its Jobs and Growth Fund.
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TORONTO – A team of researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), Unity Health Toronto (Unity), University Health Network (UHN) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) have been awarded a $17.5M grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and partners to build the Diagnostic Horizons Lab (DHL) in Toronto.
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SASKATOON – Local philanthropists Leslie and Irene Dubé have made a major donation to bring a new nuclear imaging scanner to the Royal University Hospital (RUH). The $2 million donation is for the hospital’s first dual-modality Single Proton Emission Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography (SPECT-CT) diagnostic imaging scanner.
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TORONTO – North York General Hospital (NYGH) has introduced a new state-of the-art Endoscopic Ultrasound System (EUS) that will provide patients with a faster diagnosis so they can be treated sooner. The EUS provides the highest standard of care for assessing and diagnosing diseases of the digestive tract including cancer.
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SCARBOROUGH, Ont. – Scarborough Health Network (SHN) Foundation is thrilled to announce a generous donation of $1 million from the Honey & Barry Sherman Legacy Foundation to support exceptional healthcare for Scarborough.
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BARRIE, Ont. – The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH), in Barrie, Ont., is now operating a PET/CT scanner that will benefit patients throughout the Simcoe Muskoka region. It’s the only hospital from Sudbury in the north to Newmarket in the south that is equipped with one.
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