Clinical Solutions

HAMILTON, Ont. – With a new, fully robotic approach, thoracic surgeons at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton have changed the way that esophageal cancer surgeries are performed. It’s the most significant advancement in surgery for esophageal cancer in Canada in more than two decades. Read More

HALIFAX – Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health are paving the way to a higher quality of mental healthcare in Nova Scotia by strengthening Measurement-Based Care across outpatient mental health and addiction services. The organizations are deploying a solution from Greenspace Health, of Toronto. Read More

TORONTO – Molli Surgical is now providing its patient-first solution to University Health Network’s (UHN) Sprott Department of Surgery. Molli Surgical’s Canadian-designed, wire-free and radiation-free marker technology for localizing lesions for breast cancer surgery will improve patient and physician comfort and confidence. Read More

TORONTO – Memotext Corporation, provider of a leading platform for digital patient engagement communications, announces a new collaboration with the University of Saskatchewan and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The partners are launching and commercializing a mental health text-messaging-based program that promotes curated mental health resources and provides wellness supports to users. Read More

TORONTO – The Ontario Ministry of Health announced a $5 million “planning grant” to assess the feasibility and plan construction in downtown Toronto of Ontario’s first proton radiation therapy centre. Proton radiation therapy is considered the gold standard for treatment of difficult-to-treat cancers such as brain and soft tissue cancers in children, and head and neck or base-of-skull tumors in adults. Read More

HALIFAX – Togetherall, an online mental health support platform, is now available in French and free to all Nova Scotians aged 16 and up through a partnership between Nova Scotia Health, the Office of Addictions and Mental Health, the Department of Advanced Education and IWK Health. Read More

KITCHENER, Ont. – Intellijoint HIP surgical navigation is now available at Humber River Hospital for orthopaedic surgeons. It’s Intellijoint Surgical’s first sale of its flagship product, Intellijoint HIP, to a public hospital in Canada. Intellijoint Surgical was founded in 2010 and is based in Kitchener, where it develops and commercializes surgical planning and navigation solutions for total hip and knee replacement surgeries. Read More

LONDON, Ont. – Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University had a leading role in a new global study that will change the way surgeons repair leaky valves in the heart. It’s one of the most common heart valve conditions, affecting around two per cent of the population, where many patients don’t even realize they have a leaky valve and are asymptomatic, often presenting to doctors once they are late stage into the disease. Read More

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Medtronic Canada announced it has received a Health Canada licence for the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system for use in urologic and gynecologic laparoscopic surgical procedures, which make up about half of all robotic procedures performed today. Read More