Diagnostics

TORONTO – Physicians Alexander Bilbily and Mark Cicero spent years training to be radiologists. But the two believe their biggest impact will be outside their medical offices. Bilbily and Cicero are founders of 16 Bit, a Toronto-based startup that intends to reinvent radiology with GPU-accelerated Deep Learning. Read More

WINNIPEG – Dynacare has taken over all diagnostic labs that do blood and urine work – except for those in hospitals – in the city of Winnipeg. The company bought out labs previously owned by Unicity Laboratory and X-Ray Services and now owns 63 diagnostic labs across the city. Read More

“We’re very enthusiastic about the investors who partnered in the current financing round led by iGan Partners,” Joe Eibl (pictured), CEO and co-founder of FloSonics Medical, said in a release. “It marks a critical step in the commercial development of our proprietary FloPatch technology. Read More

OAKVILLE, Ont. – Health Canada has licensed the Symbia Intevo Bold, a system that combines the company’s proven single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) technologies with new, high-performance CT capabilities to enable a wide range of clinical applications. Read More

VANCOUVER – A system that was supposed to automatically send the results of ultrasound exams at BC Children’s Hospital to referring physician hasn’t been doing this for nearly a year. The system had been disabled at that time, and had never been restored or fixed. Read More

SASKATOON – A gastroenterologist has brought a new form of ultrasound he discovered at a German hospital in the United Arab Emirates to Saskatoon after studying how to use the equipment in Italy. The $200,000 machine will prevent patients with inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, from needing to have invasive colonoscopy procedures. Read More

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – GE Healthcare announced the approval in Canada of DaTscan (Ioflupane I 123 Injection), the first Health Canada approved radiopharmaceutical adjunct imaging agent to help physicians evaluate patients with a suspected parkinsonian syndrome (PS) such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Read More

EDMONTON – Planning is underway on a new Edmonton lab hub, which will bring several clinical labs together on 5.8 hectares of provincially owned land near the University of Alberta’s south campus. Read More

CHICAGO – Thales has unveiled the latest Pixium Portable 3543 DR, said to be the first-ever truly standalone device with Embedded Patient Identification working in auto-detection mode, without connection to any external device. Read More