August 23, 2023
PENETANGUISHENE, Ont. – A team at the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, along with colleagues at Ontario Health’s Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence, plan to develop an Early Warning System using AI for mental health patients in hospitals.
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July 26, 2023
NEW YORK – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced AWS HealthScribe, a new HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare software providers to build clinical applications that use speech recognition and generative AI to save clinicians time by generating clinical documentation.
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July 5, 2023
SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), has announced the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, a new program to help customers successfully build and deploy generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. AWS is investing $100 million in the program, which will connect AWS AI and machine learning (ML) experts with customers around the globe to help them envision, design, and launch new generative AI products, services, and processes.
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July 5, 2023
TORONTO – Canada’s only national, multi-lingual 24/7, free, e-mental health service for youth, Kids Help Phone (KHP) and the Vector Institute, a globally-renowned artificial intelligence (AI) institute that empowers researchers to develop and adopt AI responsibly, are partnering to deepen and expand KHP’s evidence-based service delivery for young people across Canada.
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July 5, 2023
CHICAGO – The keynote panel discussion about ChatGPT at HIMSS in April could easily have been titled, “Generative AI, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Read More
June 21, 2023
TORONTO – Altis Labs, Inc., the computational imaging company accelerating clinical trials with artificial intelligence, announced the closing of its US $6 million seed financing. Benchstrength and Debiopharm Innovation Fund co-led the round with participation from strategic angels including Doug Foster, the former CEO of digital health company Verana Health, and Richard Gliklich, MD, the founder and CEO of realworld data company OM1.
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May 31, 2023
TORONTO – When the Ontario government announced an expansion of online mental health supports to help Ontarians navigate the challenges of the pandemic in 2020 – including free access to self-guided, internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) programs – an alarm bell sounded in the mind of bioethics researcher Rachel Katz (pictured).
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May 3, 2023
VANCOUVER and TORONTO – WELL Ventures a subsidiary of WELL Health Technologies Corp., a digital healthcare company, is pleased to announce the launch of a new investment program, the WELL AI Investment Program, focused on artificial intelligence and its applications in helping support healthcare providers with next generation tools.
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May 1, 2023
Why all the fuss about ChatGPT and other forms of ‘generative AI’, which are said to be a new wave of artificial intelligence? Read More
April 26, 2023
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Trillium Health Partners (THP) is set to harness the power of AI technology in healthcare in a new partnership with Toronto-based company Signal 1. The startup’s AI-based platform, called The Discharge Predictor, can forecast changes in patient care needs and help improve hospital flow.
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