CMA’s Joule aims to spur physician innovation
May 4, 2016
OTTAWA – The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has announced the formation of Joule – an entrepreneurial company that will help CMA members shape healthcare innovation in Canada. Read More
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May 4, 2016
OTTAWA – The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has announced the formation of Joule – an entrepreneurial company that will help CMA members shape healthcare innovation in Canada. Read More
April 20, 2016
VANCOUVER – Cossette, a marketing and communications company, has opened a branch of Cossette Labs, an incubator, in Vancouver. Since launching in Montreal in 2012 and expanding to Toronto in 2014, Cossette Labs has worked with 12 different Canadian tech-related startups, offering everything from office space, to expert advice and services. Read More
April 20, 2016
STAMFORD, Conn. – Gartner Group’s list of Cool Vendors in Healthcare for 2016 includes Toronto-based ThoughtWire, the developer of an intelligent “Internet of Things” platform that integrates and orchestrates workflows for medical devices, alerts and notifications, building systems, and other electronic assets. It is the only Canadian company in Gartner’s group of five Cool Vendors. Read More
By Jerry Zeidenberg
April 1, 2016
HAMILTON, ONT. – Hamilton Health Sciences and IBM Canada are partnering to launch a healthcare innovation centre in the downtown core of the city – a move that will help with Hamilton’s transformation from Steel City into a high-tech hub. Teams from both organizations will soon move into what used to be a Stelco office building that’s located in the downtown core. Read More
March 9, 2016
LAS VEGAS – At the latest HIMSS conference, IBM's Watson Health showed the work it is doing on several projects. One of them, code-named Iaso, is looking through the medical records of patients to discover which conditions were unreported. When the unreported pieces are put together, they can paint a picture of a serious condition – like an aneurysm. Read More
March 9, 2016
HAMILTON, Ont. – IBM and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) are joining forces to help hospital clinicians, researchers, academics and entrepreneurs accelerate the development and commercialization of new healthcare innovations. Read More
By Jonathan Lapointe
February 29, 2016
A new, updated deployment of technology for Wound Care Teleassistance (WCT) service is now under way at the Centre de Coordination de la Télésanté (CCT) of the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l’Estrie-CHUS (CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS), located in the Eastern Townships, in Quebec. Read More
February 3, 2016
MARKHAM, Ont. – LEO Pharma, Denmark’s oldest healthcare company, announced the launch of its first innovation lab in North America. Backed by $100 million in funding, LEO Innovation Lab will develop new, non-pharmaceutical solutions for people living with psoriasis and partner with the startup community to foster innovation in apps, web platforms, wearables, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, tele-medicine and other advanced technologies. Read More
February 3, 2016
TORONTO – St. Michael’s Hospital and Ryerson University celebrated the formal launch of a 20-year partnership to research and develop innovative healthcare solutions and to support start-up biomedical companies seeking to improve patient care. Read More
By Jerry Zeidenberg
February 3, 2016
TORONTO – When planning what has become North America’s most automated hospital, the management team at Humber River Regional Hospital would have been quite happy to emulate another hospital that had put all the pieces together. That would have saved a lot of time and effort, but it turned out that nobody had done it yet – so they decided to create the world’s first ‘digital hospital’. Read More
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