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June 18, 2014
TORONTO – The Funding Portal Inc. reported today that it has entered into a Joint Venture with the University Health Network (UHN), Canada’s leading academic research hospital, to improve access to capital and commercialization opportunities for businesses and inventors in the Canadian healthcare sector.
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June 16, 2014
TORONTO – SELA Canada announced it has won the 2014 Microsoft Humanitarian Response Citizenship Award. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft Corp. partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Read More
June 4, 2014
TORONTO – If you are in the 50 to 79 age bracket, worried about your memory changes and whether you need to see a doctor, there is a free online brain health test developed by the memory experts at Baycrest Health Sciences that will help you with that decision. Read More
June 4, 2014
OTTAWA – Pediatric surgeon and entrepreneur Dr. Matthew Bromwich (pictured) accepted the “TELUS Award for mHealth Innovation” at the 29th Annual CATAAlliance Innovation Awards Gala. He accepted the award on behalf of a team effort to develop and successfully implement a new approach to test hearing impairment worldwide, called ShoeBOX Audiometry. Read More
June 4, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has launched an initiative aimed at directing the resources and innovation of the global technology industry toward empowering individuals to better manage their own health and wellness. The Samsung Digital Health Initiative is based on open hardware and software platforms that will accelerate the development of advanced sensors, algorithms, and data collection and analysis. Read More
June 4, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO – Apple announced that it will jump into the health information business with the upcoming launch of a new health app and a cloud-based health information platform. The new app, called simply “Health,” will collect a number of body metrics including blood pressure, heart rate, and stats on diet and exercise.
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May 21, 2014
NEWMARKET, Ont. – Dr. Atul Verma, cardiologist at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ont., recently became the first doctor in Canada to implant the world’s smallest implantable cardiac monitoring device available – the Medtronic Reveal LINQ Insertable Cardiac Monitor System – in an adult patient.
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May 7, 2014
HALIFAX – The Rounds, a leader in physician-to-physician collaboration, announced it has completed a $1 million seed capital fundraising effort. The fundraising effort closed with a $250,000 investment from Innovacorp. The financing will help The Rounds accelerate growth across Canada and drive product development. Read More
April 30, 2014
Toronto-based GestSure, which only a few years ago launched a world-leading innovation that enables surgeons to use computers in the OR without touching a keyboard or mouse, has now released a major improvement. Instead of needing two hands to make the gestures that operate computers by remote control, surgeons will be able to perform these tasks using just one hand. Read More
April 16, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO – Start-up Ineda Systems said it received $17 million in funding from investors, including major semiconductor industry players Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics, as it designs low-power chips for smart watches and other wearable computing gadgets. Read More