OTTAWA – The Government of Canada’s 2015 Budget includes a federal investment of $42 million over five years for the creation of the Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CC-ABHI). The centre will be led by Baycrest Health Sciences, in Toronto, and will be aimed at optimizing the cognitive, emotional and physical well-being of older adults – across the country and around the globe.
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OTTAWA – The Ottawa Hospital, a three-campus medical centre with over 1,100 beds, will go live in late April with a Real-Time Location System (RTLS) that will track equipment, patients and staff.
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TORONTO – The second annual InnovationEX was held at the North York General Hospital earlier this month, an event that showcased innovations produced by the Joint Centres for Transformative Healthcare Innovation. The ‘Joint Centres’ is a partnership of six large community hospitals to share innovations that improve quality and reduce costs.
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TORONTO – Older adults currently account for almost 60 percent of hospital days even though they only represent about 15 percent of the population. But most hospitals were designed in previous eras to care for younger populations.
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TORONTO – A new, streamlined approach for the ethical review and oversight of multi-centre clinical trials in Ontario was launched by Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO).
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TORONTO – Newtopia announced that it has signed a commercial agreement with Aetna to begin offering its enterprise health engagement platform to Aetna’s largest employer customers and their employees. Newtopia is a leading personalized health company that uses genetic testing and behavioral science to build highly personalized disease prevention plans.
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The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize competition, an international quest to develop a portable device that can diagnose 15 ailments in a package weighing less than 5 lbs., will announce a winner in January 2016 – and a Canadian company is one of the 10 companies in the running.
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BRAMPTON, ONT. – William Osler Health System in January announced that a team of four grad students from the University of Toronto has won its second annual National Student App Contest. Victor Chen, Haley Liu, Jerry Tang and Cory Blumenfeld won for their app, called Outpatient, which focuses on lowering the number of patient re-admissions to hospital.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Siemens Healthcare, in collaboration with Marvel Custom Solutions, is raising awareness about the importance of diabetes diagnosis and monitoring through a new educational initiative, “Become a Diabetes Hero.”
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TORONTO – Trillium Health Partners (THP) and Women’s College Hospital (WCH) have announced an innovation partnership that delivers on a shared commitment to improve quality of patient care, equitable access, and value across the Ontario healthcare landscape.
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