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October 16, 2019
BURNABY, B.C. – In an unusual move for a municipality, City council in Burnaby has approved a $1-million grant to the Burnaby Hospital Foundation to partially cover the cost of a second CT scanner. The new machine will enable 10,000 more scans per year, according to a city report.
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October 16, 2019
TORONTO – RetiSpec Inc. announced it has received an award from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to fund the accelerated development of retinal imaging technology for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The award of up to $500,000 (U.S.) includes a direct investment in the company. It is an investment through the ADDF’s Diagnostics Accelerator initiative.
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October 16, 2019
SUDBURY – Health Sciences North officially opened its PET scanner suite. The machine has been operating at Sudbury’s hospital since June, but October 9 was the official celebration of something the community has worked for since 2009.
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October 16, 2019
TORONTO – Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) celebrated the arrival of its research MRI, which will be housed in a soon-to-be built world-class MRI suite. This MRI suite will be the first in Canada to be immersive, customizable, child-friendly and fully accessible, and is poised to accelerate research into child and youth brain function.
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October 16, 2019
TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Bialogics Analytics Inc. and emtelligent™ have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate Bialogics DImax AI Ready Business Intelligence Platform with emtelligent’s emtelliPro™ Natural Language Processing engine. Using emtelliPro to extract structured clinical data from imaging reports, Bialogics will be able to provide radiology departments with richer, deeper, analytics-based insights that maximize both operational efficiencies and clinical effectiveness.
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September 27, 2019
HAMILTON, ONT. – A McMaster University spin-out company, called VoxNeuro, has produced technology that allows clinicians to precisely gauge the level of brain activity in persons who have suffered head injuries – such as concussions – or those who have experienced a cognitive decline, including the elderly. Read More
September 25, 2019
MONTREAL – The McGill University Health Centre has acquired Canada’s most sophisticated cardiac MRI machine to advance research into heart disease, and to provide faster and more accurate diagnoses.
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August 28, 2019
In recent years, Nova Scotia has built a province-wide, integrated system for storing and sharing electrocardiograph (ECG) results – the only jurisdiction in Canada to achieve this milestone. With ECG data available electronically, healthcare providers no longer have to wait for patient data to be entered or faxed. That’s meant the province’s cardiologists, along with other authorized clinicians, can access results anywhere, anytime – enabling them to make faster diagnoses. Read More
August 7, 2019
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – With more than 1.82 million laboratory tests performed at Peterborough Regional Health Centre every year, the work that happens in the lab is crucial in supporting patient diagnosis. As part of this work, laboratory staff were spending upwards of six hours each day manually filing and sorting slides containing tissue and cell samples – a situation common in labs around the world.
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July 10, 2019
OTTAWA – Health Canada has licensed the MAMMOMAT Revelation, a premium mammography platform from Siemens Healthineers with the new InSpect integrated specimen imaging tool and the new HD Breast Biopsy solution for one-click targeting of suspicious areas. These and other features are designed to expand precision medicine and improve the patient experience.
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