Diagnostics

KITCHENER, Ont. – In Waterloo Region’s largest lab, the first of two new processing instruments has arrived and will help Grand River Hospital (GRH) greatly increase the number of COVID swabs it processes each day. With the capacity for each machine to test 94 swabs every 2.5 to 3 hours, it means GRH will be able to test up to 1,500 COVID swabs per day for faster results. Read More

EDMONTON – Alberta is providing $15 million to upgrade laboratory equipment in Edmonton and the northern part of the province. New centrifuges, microscopes, analyzers and other pieces of essential equipment will help ensure people living in and around Edmonton and across northern Alberta continue to have access to state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment services. Read More

SURREY, BC – A new instument at Surrey Memorial Hospital’s lab means a big boost for B.C.’s COVID-19 test capacity. The Roche Cobas 6800 analyzer system can do over 1,000 tests daily, meaning B.C. now has capacity for more than 7,700 COVID-19 tests each day and with faster results. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More