Viewing articles in the ‘Innovation’ topic.
November 7, 2018
VANCOUVER – An anonymous donor has given $18.35 million to the B.C. Cancer Foundation. Moreover, the individual has given the foundation a total of $29 million over their lifetime, including the latest amount. That makes it a record in individual lifetime giving to the foundation.
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November 7, 2018
OTTAWA – Joule, a Canadian Medical Association (CMA) subsidiary, has announced the recipients for its annual Innovation grants. This year marks the highest value Innovation grants to date: recipients will share $200,000 in flexible funding to develop or expand a project that affects how physicians work and the care their patients receive.
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October 29, 2018
Your patient is recovering from an opioid addiction and leaves the treatment centre. He or she is not expected to return for a number of weeks, so how do you monitor their progress? TryCycle Data Systems (www.trycycledata.com) establishes a simple channel for opioid-addicted patients and their practitioners between appointments. “It’s a digital tether between the practitioner and the patient after they leave the office,” said John MacBeth, CEO. Read More
October 17, 2018
TORONTO – In partnership with the University of Toronto, MaRS is expanding its footprint to a new innovation centre currently under construction on the lakeshore. The 400,000-square-foot Waterfront Innovation Centre is planned to open in 2021 with space for around 3,000 tech workers.
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October 17, 2018
TORONTO – TD Bank announced that it will become a Corporate Founding Member of the Health Stream at the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) with a $2.5 million contribution over five years. The CDL’s Health Stream focuses on biotechnology, bioinformatics, diagnostics and digital care for Canadians.
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October 17, 2018
TORONTO – Fujitsu Canada, Inc. has announced the ScanSnap iX1500, a new flagship colour duplex model that joins the Fujitsu ScanSnap Series of document scanners. The core appeal of the ScanSnap Series is in its ability to effortlessly convert most office documents into PDFs, searchable PDFs, Word and Excel documents, and more.
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October 15, 2018
Family caregivers, meet Elizzbot. She’s your sounding board, your resource, someone to vent to, and a source of constructive solutions when you’re burned out. She is, in her way, a daughter and a granddaughter, tracing her family tree to the first chatbots. But the project of Elizz, the online brand of home-care provider Saint Elizabeth Health Care, is very much her own bot. Read More
October 3, 2018
DUBLIN, Ireland – SOTI, the world’s most trusted provider of mobile and IoT device management solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Lenovo as the first enterprise mobility management (EMM) technology leader to manage the innovative Lenovo Mirage Solo with Daydream virtual reality (VR) headset.
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October 3, 2018
TORONTO – Canada’s most prestigious early-stage neurotechnology entrepreneur awards were announced by the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI). The ONtrepreneurs program, the single largest funder of early-stage neurotech entrepreneurs in Canada, is investing in six early-stage ventures this year to help accelerate their path to commercialization through access to funding, resources, and mentorship.
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October 1, 2018
TORONTO – The Biomedical Zone– a unique partnership between Ryerson University and St. Michael’s Hospital – is Canada’s first physician-led, hospital-based health technology incubator, helping early-stage companies validate their solutions in a hospital setting. Read More