November 22, 2023
TORONTO – RxFood Co., a leader in AI-driven nutrition assessments and GreenShield, Canada’s only not-for-profit healthcare payer-provider, are partnering to offer personalized nutrition advice to employees to help Canadians manage and prevent chronic disease.
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November 17, 2023
Editor’s note: An article that ran in CHT’s e-Messenger on November 16 suggested a partnership between CGI Group and Google regarding healthcare in Nova Scotia. This article was incorrect and has been deleted. We are pleased to present the correct news on a CGI and Google partnership. Canadian Healthcare Technology apologizes to all parties.
MONTREAL – CGI has announced the expansion of the company’s partnership with Google to drive innovation in the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This partnership will help clients accelerate their time-to-value from new generative AI use cases specific to their industries. As part of the agreement, CGI will leverage Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud) to enhance the capabilities of its CGI PulseAI solution, a hyper-automation and decision engine platform that uses AI and machine learning models to deliver high-performance intelligent process automation.
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October 31, 2023
MONTREAL – ELNA Medical Group, Canada’s largest network of integrated medical clinics, has become the sole Canadian partner of an innovative project in the U.S. that’s creating the world’s first, general-purpose LLM for healthcare. The effort is being organized by Silicon Valley-based Hippocratic AI, which has already tested its AI-driven Large Language Model (LLM) and claims that it outperforms OpenAI’s ChatGPT when it comes to medical tests. Read More
October 18, 2023
VANCOUVER, BC and TORONTO – WELL Health Technologies Corp., a digital health company, and its investee company, HEALWELL AI, are pleased to announce the launch of WELL AI Decision Support, a new service for healthcare providers. This partnership is the first major collaborative initiative between the two companies since the announcement of the Strategic Alliance Agreement earlier this month.
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October 11, 2023
EDMONTON – Alberta Innovates, via its Enabling Better Health through Artificial Intelligence (AI-Better Health) Program, will provide up to $8 million to applicants who can explore how breaking down barriers will help realize the benefits of artificial intelligence within Alberta’s health system.
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October 4, 2023
MONTREAL – SCALE AI took the stage at Canada’s ALL IN event to announce investments of $21 million for nine artificial intelligence (AI) projects selected by SCALE AI as part of its AI for Healthcare Initiative to support hospital projects pioneering the deployment of AI solutions. This latest SCALE AI initiative promotes collaboration between hospitals and AI product and solutions providers across the country to innovate further and accelerate the deployment of AI in the Canadian healthcare network to improve operations, logistics and resource allocation.
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September 27, 2023
TORONTO – Canada’s largest network of research hospitals has appointed a chief artificial intelligence scientist to harness promising technology that has the potential to speed up diagnoses, improve and personalize patient care and shorten recovery times. Bo Wang (pictured), whose expertise at the Toronto-based University Health Network includes machine learning and computational biology, is stepping into the role after the launch of UHN’s AI Hub earlier this year.
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September 6, 2023
TORONTO – Altis Labs, Inc., a computational imaging company accelerating clinical trials with AI, announced that it is leading an international coalition focused on the development and implementation of digital twins in clinical trials. This initiative seeks to transform clinical trial design by speeding up timelines and reducing failure rates associated with bringing novel, efficacious cancer treatments to patients in need.
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August 31, 2023
NEW YORK – Amazon announced the launch of its AWS HealthScribe at a company summit here in July. It introduced an AI-powered system that’s designed to save hours of time for physicians by automatically listening to encounters with patients and turning out full transcripts or summaries containing the most meaningful data. Read More
August 31, 2023
“Finally, technology that works for me and not me for it!” is Dr Devan Reddy’s first thought when asked about Tali, an AI Assistant focused on helping physicians with their administrative tasks and documentation. Read More