COVID-19

OTTAWA – Physicians from the University of Ottawa’s Department of Family Medicine and the Institut du Savoir at the Montfort Hospital have partnered with the Eastern Ontario Health Unit to support family physician’s bid to bolster COVID-19 vaccine uptake. The Public Health Agency of Canada is funding this $450,000 project, which will involve 300 family physicians and nurse practitioners. Read More

MONTREAL – Steven Lachance, a Montreal-based digital security analyst and entrepreneur, says he was worried when the Quebec government announced it would impose a vaccine passport system across the province to reduce COVID-19 transmission. Read More

MONTREAL and TORONTO – Dymedso Inc., a Montreal-based medical technology company, is proud to announce that Toronto Grace Health Centre will now be able to rely on 29 new leading-edge acoustic wave machines for the treatment of lung infections and post-COVID-19 rehabilitation. Read More

MILTON, Ont. – An Ontario-based medical start-up has co-developed a smartphone app capable of screening for COVID-19, and its variants in 30 seconds. The initiative is being brought to Canada by VoiceHealth Inc, based in Milton, Ontario. They have partnered with Sonaphi, a California-based medical technology company and are also receiving support from the Innovation Factory, a not-for-profit accelerator located within McMaster University Innovation Park, to garner regulatory compliance and complete clinical trials to get the product to market. Read More

TORONTO – MACH32, an Edmonton company, announced that their Aerosol Containment Tent is now being used by the University Health Network, which includes Toronto General Hospital. The tent-like device goes over a patient’s shoulders and head and removes potentially infectious aerosols in less than nine seconds through a pump and filter. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – Cloud DX, a leading Canadian provider of virtual care and remote patient monitoring solutions, announced it is joining forces with fellow virtual care providers Maple and Curatio to create a new Canada-wide COVID-19 home monitoring program that will allow Canadian healthcare organizations to care for COVID-19 patients in their homes. Read More

OTTAWA – Spartan Bioscience, which developed a rapid COVID-19 testing device that attracted the attention of health officials across Canada, announced that it has filed for creditor protection after discovering a problem with the technology. Read More