VANCOUVER and TORONTO – WELL Health Technologies Corp., a digital healthcare company, is pleased to announce a strategic global partnership with Orion Health. This alliance, founded on mutual expertise and vision, seeks to set enhanced standards in health integration tools to benefit the broader public health sector.
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MONTREAL – Montreal-based ELNA Medical Group, one of Canada’s largest integrated networks of medical clinics, has announced the acquisition of Neurothérapie Montréal, a leading Canadian multidisciplinary centre specializing in mental health and brain-based disorders.
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BRAMPTON, Ont. – Shoppers Drug Mart opened the doors to its first Pharmacy Care Clinics in Ontario, a significant step on the path to making care more accessible and convenient for Ontarians. The first two clinics, located in Burlington and Mississauga, will offer patients access to a range of pharmacy healthcare services, including the assessment and treatment of injuries and common ailments such as urinary tract infections and pink eye.
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TORONTO – Sun Life Financial Inc. has announced it has entered into an agreement to indirectly acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Dialogue Health Technologies Inc. (other than certain Common Shares currently owned by Sun Life’s affiliates and members of Dialogue executive management), Canada’s leading integrated health platform. Dialogue’s executive management will maintain a minority interest in Dialogue following closing.
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MONTREAL – Intelerad Medical Systems, a leading global provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions, announced the retirement of CEO Mike Lipps, who served the company for nearly three years as part of a 20-plus year software industry career, and is handing the organization’s global team and mission over to Mr. Jordan Bazinsky (pictured) as the new chief executive officer.
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DARTMOUTH, NS – MOBIA Technology Innovations Inc. has announced plans to spin off its healthcare Software as a Service (SaaS) products into a separate company called MOBIA Health Innovations Inc. Growing demand for these products in Canada and the United States is a key driver in the decision to establish this new company and strengthen the competitive position of its solutions, SurgeCon and myCardiacHealth.
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TORONTO – Smile CDR Inc. (Smile Digital Health), a leading FHIR health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider, has raised approximately $30 million in Series B growth capital led by existing investors, including UPMC Enterprises. Smile’s HDF platform uses industry-leading HDF architecture and ONC-compliant, event-driven FHIR APIs to allow healthcare providers, payers and IT vendors to build secure, composable and scalable data infrastructures.
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TORONTO – England’s Cambridge Cognition has acquired Canadian company Winterlight Labs Inc for £7m to help target a $220 million market for speech-based biomarkers. It is making a cash payment of £3m with a £4m shares top-up, according to the British financial publication Businessweekly.co.uk.
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VANCOUVER – Thrive Health has been ranked #1 in Deloitte’s 2022 Technology Fast 50 Companies to Watch list. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the award recognizes emerging companies based on their revenue growth percentage. The category for which Thrive Health is recognized, “Companies-to-Watch,” specifically celebrates 15 start-ups that demonstrate exceptional potential for continued growth and leadership in their industry.
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TORONTO – SeamlessMD, a leading digital platform for hospitals and health systems, announced that the Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network has recognized SeamlessMD as the 2022 Company of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes the CAN Health Network company that has achieved outstanding results throughout the project lifecycle and beyond. Additionally, the selected company demonstrates that the CAN Health Network model succeeds in breaking down barriers and helping Canadian companies scale.
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