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
February 26, 2021
“It was just an idea. We had no expectations of it becoming real.” Those are the words of Lisa Billone and Sarah Allred, ultrasound technologists in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS). At the start of the pandemic, when much was still unknown about COVID-19, Billone and Allred came up with the idea of an extended face shield to wear during interactions with patients. Read More
February 26, 2021
While the COVID-19 crisis has created immeasurable challenges for the healthcare system, it has also demonstrated that there is no shortage of innovators in the industry who were ready to meet the moment. Reflecting on all that happened in 2020, three important takeaways stand out: virtual care is here to stay; balancing innovation with security, privacy and compliance is critical; and finally, innovation will continue to shape Canada’s healthcare system. Read More
February 24, 2021
TORONTO – The Ontario government is providing Facedrive Inc. with $2.5 million through the Ontario Together Fund to accelerate the deployment of its wearable contact tracing technology, TraceSCAN. The system alerts users within a workplace who have been in close contact with individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19.
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February 10, 2021
REGINA – Providing Point of Care Testing (POCT) for COVID-19 is now in use in both Regina and Saskatoon using Abbott ID NOW machines. Swabbing a patient, running a point-of-care test and obtaining results takes an average of only 22 minutes. This saves significant time and helps patients receive the care they need in the right place.
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January 27, 2021
TORONTO – The federal government is investing $6 million, through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), to establish the Canadian Network of COVID-19 Clinical Trials Networks to support Canada’s research response to the global pandemic. The pan-Canadian network will be led by the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) under the direction of CCCTG Chair, Dr. Rob Fowler (pictured), who is also a principal investigator on the network and a senior scientist and critical care physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
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