Viewing articles in the ‘Innovation’ topic.
September 17, 2014
CALGARY – SnapDx, a Calgary-based company, was named the most innovative and transformative health startup in this year’s World Innovation Day, Innovation for Health (WIDI4H) competition. The biannual competition was held on August 28-29 in Geneva, Switzerland and involved top health startups from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Read More
September 3, 2014
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google has announced Google Fit: an open platform for developers to more easily build fitness apps. According to the official blog post, Google Fit provides a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales). Read More
September 3, 2014
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Though Apple is expected to unveil its hotly anticipated “iWatch” at a forthcoming Sept. 9 event, the device won’t actually ship to consumers for some time, potentially missing the holiday season entirely and arriving in stores in early 2015, according to a new report. Read More
September 3, 2014
RICHMOND HILL, ONT. – Mackenzie Health, a 500-bed community hospital, has transformed a 34-bed ward into an ‘Innovation Unit’, a living laboratory that will test evidence-based practices and technologies to produce the most effective ways of treating patients. Read More
September 3, 2014
TORONTO – At the new George Brown College campus, which specializes in health sciences, a new generation of nurses and personal support workers are being educated with the help of myriad high-tech tools. They include computerized manikins that can have heart attacks, bleed and even have babies. Read More
August 20, 2014
MONTREAL – Researchers at St. Mary’s Hospital (SMHC) Research Centre have developed a new technology that can be used in exploration-class space missions and to improve access to healthcare here on Earth.
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August 6, 2014
TORONTO – Canada lags behind most G7 countries when it comes to the use of Interventional Radiology procedures, and is dead last in several important IR procedures, despite evidence that IR results in lower costs to the healthcare system, faster recoveries for patients and lower complication rates. Read More
August 6, 2014
MONTREAL – CHU Sainte-Justine’s Marie Enfant Rehabilitation Centre (EMRC) has announced the acquisition of a LOKOMAT, the first robot-assisted walking therapy device in Quebec. Read More
July 23, 2014
QUEBEC CITY – The province of Quebec has outfitted a Challenger jet to become a high-tech ambulance for transporting patients. What looks like a corporate jet on the outside houses an intensive care unit and mini-maternity suite where babies can be delivered at 35,000 feet in the air. Read More
July 23, 2014
MARKHAM, Ont. – Philips North America has launched the second annual Philips Innovation Fellows competition, and released the findings from its 2014 North America Innovation Report. According to the survey, three in five Canadians (60 percent) consider themselves innovators, and 66 percent believe their innovation idea could be “the next big thing,” if only they had enough money and know-how to develop it.
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