August 3, 2022
TORONTO – Connexall, a division of GlobeStar Systems Inc., is pleased to announce that Sandy Saggar (pictured) has been appointed as interim chief executive officer. With this new appointment, Sandy transitions from Connexall’s SVP of innovation, analytics and CIO, to leading all business units and overall corporate strategy. Sandy brings extensive leadership and healthcare experience to this role.
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August 3, 2022
HAMILTON, Ont. – As part of its recent deployment of the Epic digital information system, Hamilton Health doctors and staff have been using Secure Chat to communicate and collaborate, either one-on-one or in groups to exchange messages or discuss patient information. “It functions like text messaging or WhatsApp, but it’s a completely secure way of communicating,” said Dr. Alim Pardhan (pictured on left), an emergency department doctor and site lead at HHS’ Hamilton General Hospital (HGH). Pardhan led the team that introduced Secure Chat to HHS.
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August 3, 2022
ST. PAUL, Minn. – 3M Co. disclosed plans to spin off its healthcare business into a listed company, joining a raft of U.S. manufacturers looking to simplify their business and boost investor returns. The industrial giant also sought bankruptcy protection for its unit that makes earplugs for the U.S. military, hoping to draw a line under litigations that have weighed on its shares this year.
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August 3, 2022
MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Ascom, a healthcare IT and clinical collaboration company, announced that it is expanding its channel partner network in Canada to better serve acute care customers in the areas surrounding Montreal. This channel partner agreement with Services LC Connect expands Ascom’s coverage in Canada to provide full partner coverage to each province for hospital systems nurse call, intelligent software, and handsets.
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August 3, 2022
CALGARY – CardiAI Inc. is pleased to announce the global launch and distribution of their brand new 24-hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure monitoring system. BPAro is a compact, portable, German-manufactured, self-monitoring blood pressure device that uses Bluetooth for wireless data collection, which is uploaded to a secure cloud database. BPAro is clinically validated for accuracy and has received approval from the FDA and Health Canada.
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August 3, 2022
VANCOUVER – University of British Columbia professor Sudip Shekhar (pictured) is the first Canadian to receive the Schmidt Science Polymath award, which will grant his team roughly $3 million over a five-year period to develop an accurate, small and accessible test for various health problems. As a researcher, Shekhar has multiple focuses including communications systems and medical technologies, which requires a lot of collaboration with his colleagues.
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August 3, 2022
EDMONTON – Medo, a Canadian company that applies AI to ultrasound to help improve the diagnosis, is being acquired by Exo, an American health information and medical device company interested in making ultrasound imaging faster and simpler so that a wider range of caregivers can use it.
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August 3, 2022
TORONTO – Michael Garron Hospital has announced that Wolf Klassen (pictured) will step into the role of interim president and chief executive officer (CEO) as of September 3, 2022. Wolf is currently vice president of program support and holds the impressive title of longest-serving Executive Leadership Team member and Vice President at MGH, having joined MGH over two decades ago. During his lengthy service, Wolf has supported and collaborated with six CEOs. He is well-positioned to assume this important leadership role and guide the organization during this transitional period.
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August 3, 2022
TORONTO – Professor Anna Goldenberg (pictured) has begun a joint tenured appointment in Computer Science and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Goldenberg obtained her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in Machine Learning and did her post doctoral training at Penn Centre for Bioinformatics and then the Donnelly Centre.
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July 27, 2022
MONTREAL – American private equity giant TA Associates has invested more than $400 million for a 30-percent stake in Montreal’s Intelerad Medical Systems Inc., one of a handful of medical imaging software companies competing in the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) marketplace with international players like Agfa HealthCare, Philips and GE Healthcare.
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