TORONTO – The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) has announced the 2016 winners of its ONtrepreneurs Program, which is designed to help Ontario neurotech entrepreneurs take their ideas “from the lab to the marketplace.” With the continued success of the entrepreneurs program, it was recently renamed the ONtrepreneurs (Ontario Neurotech Entrepreneurs) Program to better reflect its contributions to growing the NeuroTech Ontario cluster.
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ARMONK, N.Y. and BEIJING – IBM and Hangzhou CognitiveCare have announced that 21 hospitals across China plan to adopt Watson for Oncology, trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering. The system is a cognitive computing platform for physicians to help them deliver personalized, evidence-based cancer treatment options.
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TORONTO – A new technology that analyzes a person’s natural speech to detect and monitor Alzheimer’s disease, and other cognitive disorders, has won the AGE-WELL Pitch Competition: Technology to Support People with Dementia.
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NEWMARKET, Ont. – FedDev Ontario is supporting the development of new technologies for managing patients with chronic diseases through a $15 million contribution to York University and its partners, Southlake Regional Health Centre and the University Health Network.
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A tiny polymer heart the size of an adult ear, with an even tinier patch stitched on to it, provides deep insights to the surgeon preparing to operate at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. But this is no ordinary model of a typical baby’s heart.
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MARKHAM, Ont. – ventureLAB, a not-for-profit Regional Innovation Centre and Saint Elizabeth, a national healthcare provider and not-for-profit charitable organization, have announced a new partnership with the goal of developing a vibrant health innovation cluster in York Region.
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MONTREAL – Innovative Imaging Technologies Inc. (IIT), which develops Reacts – an interactive, integrated and secure video-collaboration platform designed for the healthcare sector, among other industries – has just received $4 million in funding from 10 new investors.
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KITCHENER, Ont. – The Grand River Hospital, in partnership with the University of Waterloo, is planning to create an innovation incubator at one of its sites – the Freeport Health Centre. And to help get the initiative off the ground, the hospital is planning a contribution from the Ontario Ministry of Health’s new innovation fund.
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WINDSOR, Ont. – Hacking Health Windsor Detroit, a cross-border hackathon, hosted teams that pitched 38 different ideas earlier this month. Eight winning projects were announced, including OnSite, a service that provides real-time video streaming for use in emergency management.
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