June 2, 2021
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.
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May 5, 2021
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.
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April 30, 2021
Canada’s mass COVID-19 immunization program is centred on getting the right dose into the right arm at the right time. Those at the digital front lines of the vaccine rollout would add another critical ‘R’: the right information. Read More
April 28, 2021
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.
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April 28, 2021
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.
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April 14, 2021
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.
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March 29, 2021
VANCOUVER, BC – As Canadian health officials continue to double down on mitigating the spread of COVID-19, a multidisciplinary collaboration has begun between Providence Health Care (PHC), Microsoft Canada and computer vision researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Read More
March 24, 2021
VANCOUVER – The Canadian National Vaccine Safety (CANVAS) Network is seeking hundreds of thousands of participants, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, in a web-based survey to track any potential adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.
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March 3, 2021
TORONTO – BookJane, a technology platform that helps long term care (LTC) and senior living facilities find, schedule and communicate with staff, has partnered with the Region of Peel to support the region’s COVID-19 vaccination program. BookJane is responding to the Region of Peel’s urgent need for healthcare workers by providing its technology platform to quickly mobilize and deploy clinicians to the region’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
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February 26, 2021
In response to the global pandemic, Hôpital Montfort, a 289-bed francophone teaching hospital in Ottawa, was mandated by the Champlain Health Region Incident Command to set up a COVID-19 care clinic to service the east end of the city. Read More