Artificial intelligence

MONTREAL – Aifred Health announced that the XPRIZE jury has selected Aifred Health as one of the three finalists for the IBM Watson AI XPrize. The company is competing for the grand prize of US$3 million, to be awarded in June, 2021. Montreal-based Aifred Health was one of more than 700 applicants for this XPRIZE focused on employing AI to solve the world’s grand challenges. Read More

TORONTO – The Michener Institute of Education at UHN is creating new programs in artificial intelligence (AI) to meet the health system’s need for digitally literate healthcare professionals. The new Digital Health and Data Analytics Program will consist of a new full-time program in the School of Applied Health Sciences. Read More

OTTAWA – The Royal, one of Canada’s foremost mental healthcare, teaching and research hospitals, is working in partnership with NuEnergy.ai to design a framework that uses trust as a key principle in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations. As The Royal advances its research and technologies, a governance framework can ensure privacy, awareness of bias, ethics and transparency are upheld to support the mental health needs of clients, families and communities. Read More

BURNABY, BC – LifeScan, a world leader in blood glucose monitoring and maker of the OneTouch brand, has announced a partnership with Shoppers Drug Mart Inc., one of Canada’s leading providers of pharmacy products and services, to pilot the retailer’s first digital diabetes management program. Read More

MONTREAL – Aifred Health announced that it has received a $242,500 grant from MEDTEQ+, an agency that promotes economic development and innovation in medical technologies. Aifred delivers doctor-focused solutions for the treatment of mental health, including electronic access to best practices guidelines. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – Technology developed by engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo has been adopted by a major pathology facility in the United States. The Joint Pathology Center (JPC), which has the world’s largest collection of preserved human tissue samples, will use an artificial intelligence search engine to index and search its digital archive as part of a modernization effort. Read More

TORONTO – International scientists are challenging their colleagues to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) research more open and reproducible to accelerate the impact of their findings for cancer patients. In particular, they’re targeting studies that claim AI systems are better at diagnosing disease than physicians, but which fail to offer enough transparency to test and reproduce the results. Read More

TORONTO – Hospital Intensive Care Units (ICUs) cater to patients with severe illnesses requiring constant monitoring and specialized treatment, including ventilation. Pandemics like COVID-19 significantly increase the risk of ICU overcrowding given the surge in patients, which can negatively impact the quality of care. As a result, an early understanding of a patient’s unique treatment journey, including their ICU requirements, is critical to improved treatment and better management of ICUs. Read More

TORONTO – A team of healthcare professionals, led by Dr. Bo Wang (pictured), artificial intelligence (AI) lead at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, have designed an innovative tool which enables researchers to track changes in the genetic structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Read More