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May 13, 2020
OTTAWA – COVID-19 has emerged as the largest health crisis of our time. To date, millions of individuals have been affected, causing hundreds of thousands of fatalities in nearly 200 countries around the world.
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May 13, 2020
CALGARY – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra will install the radiology and breast imaging modules of its enterprise imaging solution at Mayfair Diagnostics’ facilities in Canada. The solution will support workflow optimization and increased reading efficiency across multiple geographic locations, thereby improving diagnostics and patient care.
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May 6, 2020
TORONTO – Synaptive Medical, a leader in robotic surgical visualization, announced it has secured clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its superconducting, head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, Evry.
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April 29, 2020
TORONTO – PocketHealth, a platform enabling patients to securely access and share medical imaging with doctors, announced it has raised $6.5 million USD (CAD$9.2M) in financing, led by Radical Ventures.
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April 8, 2020
WINNIPEG – Canada’s advanced manufacturing supercluster – called NGen and based in Hamilton, Ont. – has selected a ventilator created by Winnipeg’s Cerebra Health Inc., as a device to be further developed for use combatting the COVID-19 epidemic in Canada.
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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 is designed to identify and help prioritize cases such as pneumothorax, was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September. 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