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Dialogue’s ‘human-in-the-loop’ safety software wins CE marking

December 13, 2019
By David Godkin
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TORONTO – Montreal’s Dialogue Technologies Inc. has received class 1 CE marking for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software that enables the company’s existing telehealth platform to reduce the time required to triage patients in emergencies. The new AI-driven Dialogue Intake software also has “human-in-the-loop” capability ensuring real-time medical intervention to verify the accuracy of information provided physicians during telehealth consultation.
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Synaptive Medical announces close of $25M preferred share financing to expand global footprint

December 10, 2019
By David Godkin
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TORONTO – Synaptive Medical Inc. has completed the first round of a new preferred equity investment totaling $25 million led by Guelph-Ontario-based Linamar Corp., which also entered into a manufacturing agreement with Synaptive, and Calgary’s Audible Capital Corp.
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Clarius cuts portable ultrasound in half, makes it cheaper, more powerful

November 27, 2019
By David Godkin
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TORONTO – Burnaby, British Columbia-based Clarius Mobile Health Inc. has launched a second-generation series of wireless ultrasound scanners aimed at expanding its foothold in the North American and European imaging markets. More portable and powerful than its predecessors – the Clarius C3 and L7 launched in 2016 – the L15 hand-held ultrasound scanner series also may find markets in cardiac and sports medicine, as well as anesthesiology.
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AI the future of collapsed lung diagnosis, says Ontario lab

November 8, 2019
By David Godkin
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TORONTO – On average, radiology specialists diagnose fewer than 50% of cases of collapsed lung or pneumothorax using chest X-rays, said systems design engineer Hamid Tizhoosh. The Insignio system developed at Tizhoosh's Kitchener, Ontario-based Kimia Lab has gone further by identifying 75% of cases of collapsed lungs using artificial intelligence (AI) to search a database of 550,000 patients and compare 30,000 cases of pneumothorax there to X-rays of new patients with unknown conditions.
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Study shows readmission rate for HF patients slashed using lung fluid measuring device

October 25, 2019
By David Godkin
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TORONTO – Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Medicure Inc. said results of a study released last week could nudge the door open wider in the U.S. for a device adapted from the military to normalize lung fluid content in patients suffering from heart failure.
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Canadian Itclamp blood control device of choice for Defense Department

October 18, 2019
By David Godkin
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TORONTO – Developed by Edmonton, Alberta-based Itraumacare Inc., the Itclamp has undergone multiple independent and peer-reviewed studies demonstrating its efficacy controlling blood flow from wounds to the head and neck during military combat in the Middle East. That's been enough for the U.S. Department of Defense's Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care to officially recommend its acquisition for use on battlefields.
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Cryoablation system to expand Boston Sci's global profile in interventional oncology

September 18, 2019
By David Godkin
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Thornhill's Clearmate device a breath of fresh air for victims of CO poisoning

September 16, 2019
By David Godkin
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Companies partner for AI-based approach to ID of colorectal polyps

September 10, 2019
By David Godkin
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