Diagnostics

TORONTO – The Ontario government is investing $18 million to increase production of life-saving medical isotopes at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor in Hamilton. Read More

NEWMARKET, Ont. – Southlake Health announced that it has selected Philips’ Ambition X MR with BlueSeal technology, which the company says is the first high-performance and eco-friendly helium-free 1.5T scanner. Read More

HAMILTON, Ont. - Moonrise Medical, a Canadian medical device startup developing next-generation ultrasound technology for vascular assessment, announced it has secured a $500,000 investment from the Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) through the Life Sciences Innovation Fund (LSIF). Read More

VICTORIA, BC – Not many college students can say they designed and built a functioning piece of hospital equipment, but a few soon-to-be grads on Vancouver Island have done just that. Read More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - International medical imaging company Sectra will enable six of the Canadian ENHANCE Ontario’s (Enabling Healthcare Across Networks of Central East Ontario) member hospitals to consolidate their imaging across 13 hospital sites with its cloud-based enterprise imaging solution, Sectra One Cloud. Read More

MONTREAL - A new medical device at the Jewish General Hospital, the first of its kind to be used in Canada, is boosting the safety of capturing images of the blood vessels of certain patients during vascular surgery. Read More

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI – Prince Edward Island has expanded privileges for chiropractors so they can now diagnose and treat biomechanical disorders, according to a news release from the P.E.I. government. Read More

ORANGEVILLE, Ont. – SDI Canada, a national leader in medical infrastructure innovation, has delivered a fully prefabricated Modular MRI Cassette to Headwaters Health Care Centre, marking a major milestone in the future of healthcare delivery. This cutting-edge unit will house the hospital’s new GE Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Read More

KINGSTON, Ont. – A groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool used to diagnose coronary artery disease on CT scans is about to transform cardiac care at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) – and it’s all thanks to the generosity of local donor Stephen Sorensen. Read More

VANCOUVER - Through British Columbia’s Integrated Marketplace program, delivered by Innovate BC, $2.83 million in funding has been awarded to four projects to continue testing digital pathology tools and expanding a provincial digital pathology cloud solution to support improved access to timely diagnostic services for British Columbians living with diseases like cancer. Read More