Joule boosts funding to further innovation support
February 19, 2020
OTTAWA – Joule boosted its annual Innovation grant offering to $500,000 to mark the program’s fifth anniversary. The program supports physicians, residents and medical students developing or advancing initiatives that provide direct, positive impacts to patients and physicians. This year’s grant categories have also been expanded to support the CMA’s two priority areas – access to care and physician health and wellness.
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BRAMPTON, ON – Bell Let’s Talk announced a donation of $420,000 to William Osler Health System (Osler) to support a new repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Clinic at Osler’s Brampton Civic Hospital. The clinic is part of Osler’s innovative Stepped Care Program that provides leading-edge, high-intensity treatment for patients with mental illness.
Montreal – The Industrial Consortium for Innovation in Medical Technologies, MEDTEQ (Canada and Quebec) is proud to announce the expansion of its Beachhead network. The Beachhead program is a partnership between centres of excellence and industry to accelerate the adoption of value-based innovations.
SURREY, BC – The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), powered by Baycrest, and the Health and Technology District announced a new partnership to advance Canadian digital healthcare solutions for seniors.
TORONTO – Baycrest Health Sciences and Sunnybrook Health Sciences are piloting a study of a novel therapy for Alzheimer’s dementia that uses low doses of ionizing radiation, such as X-rays, to stimulate brain functioning. A CT scanner is employed to provide the treatments, using normal diagnostic exposures.
TORONTO – Four healthcare organizations were among the winners of the 2019 ITAC Ingenious Awards, which are given annually by the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC), a national technology association.
MONTREAL – The team behind McGill University Health Centre’s Opal patient empowerment app needs to make more room in their trophy case. In November, the team was awarded the Grand Prix de l’année at Le Gala des Prix TI en Santé et Services Sociaux.
BOSTON – XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, a leader in extended reality and therapeutic applications, and Sheba Medical Center, ranked by Newsweek as the 10th best hospital in the world, announced that they are partnering to create the first fully VR-based hospital, utilizing XRHealth’s technology throughout each department. The integration of virtual reality technology is part of the medical center’s innovation efforts and commitment to digital health.
TORONTO – The Biomedical Zone, a partnership between Ryerson University and St. Michael’s Hospital, is pleased to announce a collaboration with Shoppers Drug Mart for its third annual Healthbound Start Up Challenge competition.