Companies

TORONTO – HEALWELL AI Inc., a data science and AI company focused on preventative care, announced it plans to acquire a majority ownership position in Pentavere Research Group Inc., an innovative AI health-tech company focused on identifying eligible patients for approved medications and interventions. Read More

KIRKLAND, Que. – Pfizer Canada, in partnership with Waterloo, Ont-based Communitech, has announced three innovation startups that are addressing key challenges in Canadian healthcare by enhancing outcomes and the patient experience. Pfizer has committed to investing $1.4 million across this first cohort of “Call for Solutions” winners. Read More

VANCOUVER, BC and TORONTO – WELL Health Technologies Corp., a digital healthcare company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of HEALWELL AI Inc.’s clinical assets in Ontario. HEALWELL AI was formerly known as MCI Onehealth Technologies Inc. The transaction includes a strategic alliance between WELL and HEALWELL, and a conditional call option which would allow WELL to purchase a controlling interest of HEALWELL from the prior MCI founders’ multi-voting shares. Read More

VANCOUVER and TORONTO – WELL Health Technologies Corp., a digital healthcare company, is pleased to announce a strategic global partnership with Orion Health. This alliance, founded on mutual expertise and vision, seeks to set enhanced standards in health integration tools to benefit the broader public health sector. Read More

MONTREAL – Montreal-based ELNA Medical Group, one of Canada’s largest integrated networks of medical clinics, has announced the acquisition of Neurothérapie Montréal, a leading Canadian multidisciplinary centre specializing in mental health and brain-based disorders. Read More

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Shoppers Drug Mart opened the doors to its first Pharmacy Care Clinics in Ontario, a significant step on the path to making care more accessible and convenient for Ontarians. The first two clinics, located in Burlington and Mississauga, will offer patients access to a range of pharmacy healthcare services, including the assessment and treatment of injuries and common ailments such as urinary tract infections and pink eye. Read More

TORONTO – Sun Life Financial Inc. has announced it has entered into an agreement to indirectly acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Dialogue Health Technologies Inc. (other than certain Common Shares currently owned by Sun Life’s affiliates and members of Dialogue executive management), Canada’s leading integrated health platform. Dialogue’s executive management will maintain a minority interest in Dialogue following closing. Read More

MONTREAL – Intelerad Medical Systems, a leading global provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions, announced the retirement of CEO Mike Lipps, who served the company for nearly three years as part of a 20-plus year software industry career, and is handing the organization’s global team and mission over to Mr. Jordan Bazinsky (pictured) as the new chief executive officer. Read More

DARTMOUTH, NS – MOBIA Technology Innovations Inc. has announced plans to spin off its healthcare Software as a Service (SaaS) products into a separate company called MOBIA Health Innovations Inc. Growing demand for these products in Canada and the United States is a key driver in the decision to establish this new company and strengthen the competitive position of its solutions, SurgeCon and myCardiacHealth. Read More

TORONTO – Smile CDR Inc. (Smile Digital Health), a leading FHIR health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider, has raised approximately $30 million in Series B growth capital led by existing investors, including UPMC Enterprises. Smile’s HDF platform uses industry-leading HDF architecture and ONC-compliant, event-driven FHIR APIs to allow healthcare providers, payers and IT vendors to build secure, composable and scalable data infrastructures. Read More