Innovation

MONTREAL – A Montreal start-up is disrupting the way life-saving drugs are administered to sick children by being the first to automate the process with the help of a smart arm bracelet. The novel device takes the guesswork out of the current manual and time-consuming process of weight-based pediatric medication dosing, avoiding costly mistakes and significantly improving patient outcomes. Read More

TORONTO – Digital Health Canada has announced the winners of the 2021 Digital Health Canada Awards. Following is a list of the winners in each of the following six award categories. 1. Digital Health Executive of the Year recognizes up to three individual executives (representing director level and up) whose outstanding contributions as a leader have helped advance digital health or virtual health in Canada. Read More

KINGSTON, Ont. – In just a few short years, surgical teams in Kingston have become the highest volume robotic colorectal surgery program in the country. Officially launched in 2018, the A.B. Smith QC Robotics program at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) now regularly completes between 80-110 robotic cases a year for individuals with rectal cancer, double the number performed in larger cities across Canada. Read More

MONTREAL – Paperplane Therapeutics, a Quebec-based start-up that develops therapeutic virtual reality games, will be involved in the vaccination campaign for 5- to 11-year-olds with its DREAM solution. This innovation, which aims to help better manage pain and reduce the anxiety of young patients during medical procedures, comes at the right time with the start of the vaccination campaign for young people. Read More

VANCOUVER – PrecisionOS^® has received a 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market InVisionOS™, a patient specific planning tool using Virtual Reality (VR). The patented software, to be available in early 2022, lets surgeons use an Oculus Quest 2 device to do preoperative planning. InVisionOS is a next generation patient specific planning tool. Read More

TORONTO – On Thursday, November 18th, Canadians are invited to tune into St. Michael’s Foundation’s bigger and bolder Angels Den competition streaming online at angelsden.ca. During the hour-long episode, six teams of Canadian scientists will pitch their groundbreaking research ideas to a panel of celebrity judges and compete for almost $500,000 in research prize money. Read More

TORONTO – The CAN Health Network recently held its second annual AGM where it announced five prestigious awards recognizing Canada’s leading healthcare organizations and companies in the following categories; Network, Edge of the Year, Company of the Year, Disruptor, and Procurement Awards. The virtual AGM was hosted and sponsored by Deloitte Canada. Read More

VANCOUVER – Canada can lead the Digital world. Canada’s Digital Supercluster was created to make this vision a reality by accelerating Canada’s development and adoption of world-class digital technologies. “Three years ago, our model of collaborative innovation did not exist in Canada,” said Sue Paish (pictured), CEO of the Digital Supercluster. Read More

HAMILTON, Ont. – Mohawk College’s mHealth & eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC) has received a renewal grant of $1.75 million for its nationally recognized Technology Access Centre in Digital Health. Over the next five years, funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) will be used to support hundreds of applied research projects and partnerships with Canadian companies, driving innovation in digital health, virtual care, interoperability and software development. Read More

TORONTO – University Health Network’s surgeon-in-chief, Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, was full of nerves as he scanned for a drone heading toward the downtown rooftop he was standing on. The drone was only making a short journey, from Toronto Western Hospital to Toronto General Hospital, but he knew its cargo would make the trip historic and time was of the essence. Read More