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April 1, 2020
GUILFORD, CT – Butterfly Network, the company helping to transform healthcare with its disruptive, Ultrasound-on-Chip technology, announced that after priority review by Health Canada, it has received medical device licensing for its point-of-care ultrasound device.
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April 1, 2020
EDMONTON – Albertans will soon have faster, more convenient access to COVID-19 testing through a new partnership between Alberta Health Services (AHS) and a Canadian technology company. Spartan Bioscience Inc. is in the late stages of developing an innovative handheld, rapid-testing device for COVID-19, which can confirm test results for the virus in less than one hour.
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March 30, 2020
There is increasing evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to make a major impact on the practice of medicine in Canada. GE Healthcare’s Critical Care Suite, for example, an AI application that identifies cases of pneumothorax on X-ray images in real-time, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September and is in the queue for approval by Health Canada. Read More
March 4, 2020
TORONTO – Synaptive Medical, a leader in robotic surgical visualization, announced the company has secured approval from Health Canada for Evry, the company’s superconducting, head MRI. Evry has been designed to provide imaging directly at the point of care in areas outside of diagnostic imaging departments, which was previously unachievable due to the size of conventional MRIs.
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February 27, 2020
HAMILTON, ONT. – Hamilton Health Sciences has inked a $270 million deal with Siemens Healthineers that will see the hospital replace nearly all of its diagnostic imaging gear – about 500 pieces of equipment – over the next five years. The agreement will last 15 years, and includes training and maintenance, as well as procurement services. Read More
January 31, 2020
HALIFAX – The continued growth of the digitalization of healthcare information is critical to the delivery of high-value care. In August 2019, Nova Scotia became the first province in Canada to successfully connect a Laboratory Information System (LIS) to the Panorama Public Health Information System. Read More
January 29, 2020
LONDON, ONT. – Hospitals in London, Ont. have partnered with Siemens Healthineers to refresh and modernize the city’s stock of MRIs and angiography devices. In December, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London announced the signing of a $42 million deal for six new MRI machines and eight new angio suites. Read More
January 22, 2020
VANCOUVER – Vancouver Imaging, a group of over 70 radiologists, has signed on to use Real Time Medical’s smart workload-balancing, physician skills development and error-avoidance platform. Vancouver Imaging, which provides reading services for hospital and out-of-hospital imaging centres, will implement the system in the first half of 2020 at its non-hospital clinics.
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December 11, 2019
CHICAGO – Vendors at the 2019 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) introduced many new systems, both hardware and software. Here’s a round-up of some of the high-profile announcements from the show floor:
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December 11, 2019
LONDON, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers Canada has been selected by London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London to provide imaging systems to serve the community of Southern Ontario. Siemens Healthineers will replace and upgrade the hospitals’ Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Interventional Radiology and Cardiology systems citywide and provide support services for at least ten years.
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