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June 27, 2025
TORONTO – Start-ups in the healthcare sector often find that no company is an island – it takes partnerships and collaboration to launch and grow. That’s been the experience of many participants working with the Toyota Mobility Foundation and the MaRS Discovery District. Read More
June 11, 2025
VANCOUVER – In a landmark announcement, the Dilawri Foundation has made a record-setting $60 million philanthropic gift to VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation to establish the Dilawri Cardiovascular Institute (DCI) on the Vancouver General Hospital campus.
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June 4, 2025
TORONTO – Canada Health Infoway has announced the launch of the 2025 Connected Care Innovation Grant. Infoway is investing in clinical leaders across Canada to advance grassroots clinical initiatives that drive innovation in digital health interoperability and strengthen Connected Care for patients and providers. Successful applicants can receive up to $40,000 per project.
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May 28, 2025
CALGARY – The province of Alberta will cut funding to Alberta Innovates by nearly 30 percent over the next two years — a roughly $60-million annual reduction that CEO Michael Mahon called “fairly significant.”
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May 14, 2025
TORONTO – MaRS Discovery District and the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) are proud to announce the launch of the Rural & Remote Community Cancer Screening Challenge – a nationwide initiative to identify and support community-designed solutions that increase participation in cancer screening across rural and remote communities in Canada. This initiative will award a total of $175,000 across two phases.
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May 7, 2025
TORONTO – Canada Health Infoway has announced eight recipients of the 2025 Vendor Innovation Program (VIP), recognizing integrated, forward-looking solutions that will help advance connected care, improve patient access to their health information, and enhance care coordination across the Canadian health system.
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May 7, 2025
OTTAWA – The Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network is excited to announce its partnership with CHEO, a leading pediatric healthcare and research centre in Ottawa. This new collaboration will spark even more transformative innovation projects at CHEO to improve healthcare delivery and access to care across the region.
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May 1, 2025
OTTAWA – For researchers leading clinical trials, recruiting enough participants can be a challenge. When recruitment targets for clinical trials are not met, due to cuts in funding, studies being shut down, or difficulty finding eligible patients, the trial can be abandoned altogether or redesigned to accommodate the smaller data sets, resulting in less impactful conclusions than originally intended. Read More
May 1, 2025
Every day, millions of nurses and other frontline healthcare professionals work long, tireless hours serving both the basic and complex needs of multiple patients. It’s a mentally, physically and emotionally demanding job. It also requires a high level of specialized expertise to perform their duties calmly and efficiently in an otherwise bustling, unpredictable, and sometimes chaotic environment. Read More
April 23, 2025
WINNIPEG - Winnipeg’s St. Boniface Hospital is the first acute-care hospital in Canada to have a vending machine to help save lives. Our Healthbox enables people who need harm reduction and health supplies to get them discreetly, and free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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