WATERLOO, Ont. – Imagine the possibility of detecting Alzheimer's disease up to 15 years before the onset of symptoms. By using retinal imaging available through a telehealth model, University of Waterloo physics professor Dr. Melanie Campbell (pictured) and her company LumeNeuro are looking to change the game in the early detection of Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases for those who might not otherwise have access to life-changing care.
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VANCOUVER – Patients are benefiting from convenient, safe and timely acute-level care from the comfort of their own home as the Hospital at Home (HaH) program launches in several hospitals in Vancouver. HaH is an internationally recognized model that is both safe and effective, and is designed to improve patient comfort, privacy and independence.
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SUDBURY, Ont. – The Sudbury Catalyst Fund is providing $250,000 to WaiveTheWait, a medical technology startup whose software helps busy medical clinics manage administrative tasks and communication with patients.
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QUEBEC CITY – Dr. Rick Fleet (pictured), the research and innovation chair in emergency medicine at Laval University, believes local innovations can help improve access for patients and support healthcare workers. At Living Lab Charlevoix he’s working with two hospitals in small-town Quebec to introduce medical students and residents to the realities of rural healthcare – and train them in “design thinking” to prioritize and prototype solutions.
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LONDON, UK – A London hospital is using technology to help patients with progressive neurological conditions to store their voice for when they lose it in future. Voice banking allows people to record phrases using a dedicated computer program. Speech sounds are then converted into a personal synthetic voice that can be used when they are no longer able to use their own.
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LONDON, Ont. – Western University launched its first annual “President’s Challenge” this year, a competition that asks students to solve pressing healthcare problems. This year’s problem is how to reduce the pressure on stressed hospitals, which are often trying to care for too many patients at one time. Tomorrow, in Toronto, five finalist teams will present their solutions, and one will be the winner.
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HAMILTON, Ont. – Two leading innovation centres, Innovation Factory and Haltech, have announced their amalgamation and a renewed commitment to fostering technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable economic growth in southwestern Ontario.
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VANCOUVER – The architect’s rendering of the future research and support centre at the new St. Paul’s Hospital on the Jim Pattison Medical Campus – expected to open in 2028 – shows a sleek tower connected by a skyway to the hospital. That link will operate like an artery carrying people and ideas back and forth between the two centres.
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BRAMPTON, ONT. – The marriage of old and new technologies at William Osler Health System (Osler) is not only yielding impressive results in the care of stroke patients, the organization’s new Stroke Dashboard is also among the first in Canada to deliver real-time stroke care data in a visually friendly digital format.
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HALIFAX – MIMOSA Diagnostics, the Halifax- and Toronto-based maker of a medical device for non-invasively measuring tissue damage, emerged as winner of the medtech finals at the Atlantic Canada Healthtech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, earning $100,000 in the process.
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