Viewing articles in the ‘Innovation’ topic.
June 12, 2019
TORONTO – Fifteen Canadian startups have been selected to compete in the AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge: Startup Edition. The competition is for startups whose technologies or services can improve quality of life for older adults or their caregivers.
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May 22, 2019
OTTAWA – Joule, a Canadian Medical Association company, is pleased to announce the launch of Boldly, a physician-focused content hub that delivers information and thought leadership on the advances in medicine, healthcare delivery and medical practice, for physicians and medical learners.
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May 22, 2019
EDMONTON – Health City is pleased to announce a collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to better predict frailty and its impact on chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
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April 29, 2019
Don Tapscott is in. At a recent pitch session for innovation projects at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) – modeled after popular CBC TV series Dragon’s Den, where entrepreneurs compete for investment cash from financiers – Tapscott the Dragon offered up his own cash for one proposal. Read More
April 24, 2019
HALIFAX – The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is providing a $2.99 million loan to Alentic Microscience Inc., which has devised a pocket-sized diagnostic device that can generate test results in under five minutes, from any location, using only a drop of blood from a pinprick.
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April 24, 2019
TORONTO – iGan Partners has announced the closing of its first fund at $100 million with the help of family offices and high net-worth individuals. The fund is focused on the health technology sector, including: digital health, medical devices, healthcare IT and artificial intelligence (AI). The fund provides investors with diversified exposure to early-stage health technologies.
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April 10, 2019
CALEDON, Ont. – To improve patient outcomes when cardiac arrest occurs in the community, the Region of Peel will take part in a pilot project in which Automated External Defibrillators (AED) will be delivered by drones.
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March 29, 2019
A health-technology accelerator at the biggest hospital in Israel is now striking up co-development agreements with Canadian hospitals to mutually devise and test innovations. Read More
March 29, 2019
A Los Angeles-area start-up called Deep 6 AI is shaking up the clinical trials marketplace by applying a new brand of AI to the mix. Company founder and CEO Wout Brusselaers explained in a meeting at HIMSS, in Orlando, that traditionally, drug companies have found it very hard to recruit patients for the clinical trials needed to test their new medications. Read More
March 27, 2019
TORONTO – The University of Toronto has received its largest-ever donation, a $100-million gift to further the school’s research on artificial intelligence, biomedicine and how new technologies can disrupt and enrich lives.
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