TORONTO – The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, through its Weston Brain Institute, has made a landmark $16.7-million philanthropic grant to establish the Weston Family Focused Ultrasound Initiative at Sunnybrook.
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EDMONTON – Turning to virtual assistants for medical emergency information can be useless, shows new research from the University of Alberta. “We were hoping to find that the devices would have a better response rate, especially to statements like ‘someone is dying’ and ‘I want to die,’ versus things like ‘I have a sunburn or a sliver,’” said lead author Christopher Picard (pictured), a master’s student in the Faculty of Nursing and a clinical educator at Edmonton’s Misericordia Community Hospital emergency department.
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MONTREAL – Montreal’s innovation professionals have launched a research collaboration called Continuum that will focus on heart diseases, and related issues like diabetes. The project seeks to understand how advanced digital technology can help health professionals and patients suffering from multiple serious medical conditions to jointly manage their treatment plan at home to reduce hospital readmissions.
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WHITBY, Ont. – A new partnership between Ontario Tech University and Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences will create a Clinical Demonstration Unit (CDU) at Ontario Shores to explore a wide range of innovative treatment options for patients with dementia.
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MONTREAL – The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), powered by Baycrest, in collaboration with four academic centres in Quebec, announced support for the validation testing of two new healthcare innovations for older adults, specifically for those living with dementia.
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VANCOUVER – Amazon announced that that its Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) subsidiary will launch a Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) at the University of British Columbia in early 2020. The UBC centre will focus on community health and wellbeing.
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NEW ORLEANS – The annual American Telehealth Association meeting, held here in April, was used by several vendors to announce the launch or imminent launch of new or upgraded platforms. As telehealth pivots from being proprietary hardware-based to hardware agnostic, the future battleground for vendors will be platforms.
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TORONTO – Thanks to a $25-million gift, the University of Toronto is creating the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, which will develop innovative approaches to improving child health.
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TORONTO – The Joint Centres for Transformative Healthcare Innovation is pleased to welcome Humber River Hospital as a new member. Humber River Hospital will join the six founding members – Mackenzie Health, Markham Stouffville Hospital, Michael Garron Hospital, North York General Hospital, Southlake Regional Health Centre, and St. Joseph’s Health Centre in their ongoing commitment to fostering a culture of innovation in healthcare.
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HALIFAX – A PhD student at Dalhousie University has earned the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – PhD, awarded by Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that fosters growth and innovation in Canada for business and academia. Lyna Kamintsky (pictured) applied machine learning and analysis of MRI images to demonstrate the direct correlation between blood vessel leakage in the brain and symptoms reported by patients.
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