MARKHAM, Ont. – SE Health announced that the The Chrysalis Innovation Challenge 2025 has officially launched. This national pitch competition, hosted by SE Health, invites innovative solutions that address health and well-being. The theme this year, Reimagining Well-being through Innovation, Impact, and Investment, calls for ideas that help Canadians live well, age well, and be cared for well.
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MONTREAL - PhysioBiometrics Inc. has launched Heel2Toe, a wearable therapeutic device designed to assess and train older adults to walk with a proper gait, which is essential to reduce strain on joints and muscles, help prevent falls, and make walking easier to stay active and independent.
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TORONTO – In September 2024, a disruption in the delivery of home care medical supplies left patients without critical supplies, with some not receiving IV pain medication, wound care, and catheter supplies. A Patient Ombudsman investigation found that many factors led to the disruption, and worsened patient experiences, including inadequate training, communication with patients and caregivers, and project oversight, following Ontario Health atHome’s transition to a new medical supplies procurement model.
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TORONTO – Scarborough Health Network (SHN) and Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (SCHC), along with their partners in Scarborough Palliative Care (SPC), have developed a unique solution to delivering more integrated services for the hundreds of patients across the community who receive palliative care.
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MONTREAL – AGE-WELL is pleased to announce three finalists for the 2025 AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge: Implementing Change, a national pitch competition spotlighting startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with technology-based solutions for healthy aging.
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As chronic wounds become more prevalent in Canada, driven by an aging population, rising diabetes rates, and vascular conditions, the pressure on healthcare systems to deliver effective, timely wound care is mounting.
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TORONTO - AlayaCare, a leading provider of cloud-based home and community care solutions, is proud to announce it has been selected as the vendor of record in a collaborative RFP process for 33 Community Support Service (CSS) agencies in the Champlain region of Ontario Health East.
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MONTREAL – McGill University researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients’ use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them. When clinicians review a patient’s file, MedSafer flags potentially inappropriate medications.
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MONTREAL — MEDTEQ+ and AGE-WELL, two leaders in the AgeTech sector, are pleased to announce the second cohort of 20 collaborative projects selected as part of envisAGE, an initiative that enables mature AgeTech innovations to be tested and evaluated in real-world settings across Canada with the aim of accelerating their commercialization.
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TORONTO – AGE-WELL has launched the 2025 AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge: Implementing Change, a national pitch competition that spotlights innovators with technology-based solutions designed to support healthy aging.
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