Innovation

SUDBURY, ON – Vale, an international mining company headquartered in Brazil, and with large-scale activities in Canada, has announced the winners of its US$1 million COVID-19 innovators challenge. Two of the winners are Ontario companies offering solutions that can be used to combat the pandemic. Read More

MONTREAL – The Montreal General Hospital Foundation and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre have announced the three finalist teams for the Code Life Ventilator Challenge. Launched on March 19th, this two-week sprint to design a low-cost, simple, easy-to-use and easy-to-build ventilator that can serve patients suffering from COVID-19, received more than 2,600 registrations, representing over 1,000 teams from 94 countries. Read More

HAMILTON, ON – With the support of national innovation organization Mitacs, Hamilton-based AVL Manufacturing – which engineers enclosures for power generators – has transformed its core business into producing first-of-their-kind mobile medical modules for hospitals to help in the fight against COVID-19. Read More

MISSISSAUGA, ON - Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada) is pleased to announce the launch of the Roche Data Science Coalition, a group of like-minded public and private organizations committed to working with the global community to develop solutions to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Collaborators in the Coalition include: Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), doc.ai, NVIDIA, Self Care Catalysts, ThinkData Works Inc. and Vector Institute. Read More

TORONTO – A group of researchers at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health have developed an interactive online tool that helps hospitals and other healthcare providers estimate their capacity to manage new cases of COVID-19. Read More

TORONTO – Vale is joining the fight against COVID-19 by launching the Vale COVID-19 Challenge, offering up to USD $1 million to propel innovative COVID-19 solutions into the marketplace. The challenge is open in Canada and Brazil with each selected solution eligible to receive up to USD $200,000. Read More

VANCOUVER – WELL Health Technologies Corp. (“WELL” or the “Company”) has launched its Automated COVID-19 Triage Tool, also known as “ACTT.” ACTT is a scalable and multi-factor COVID-19 triage tool that includes an automated phone, SMS and web capabilities that enable government and healthcare organizations on the front lines to effectively communicate and triage symptoms with Canadian citizens. Read More

PHILADELPHIA – Wolters Kluwer, Health is supporting clinicians on the front lines fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with additional evidence-based resources in UpToDate and a new interactive COVID-19 search intensity map. The map helps clinicians and public health agencies track the virus and may support clinicians in gaining predictive insights on reported cases based on clinical search activity from 1.9 million clinicians at the point-of-care. Read More