The expanding landscape of digital health accelerators will require an expanding landscape of administrators and leaders to help—hand in hand—drive this movement forward.
A Shark Tank-style competition in Toronto in May will see health care start-ups vying for $20K from wealthy venture capitalists at HealthClick 2015.
Canada is a lot more connected when it comes to digital health than I first realized. Adoption rates are skyrocketing in some areas, including the far North.
Until North America has the right technology with the right regulations in place, digital health drones may not be cleared for takeoff just yet.
Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have moved one step closer towards building a prosthetic hand that can actually feel.
A collaboration between Breathometer, Inc., a developer of breath analysis technology, and Uber, a mobile app connecting professional drivers to those who need rides, hopes to enable more informed decision making.
Research and development in universities generate a majority of the evidence-based global health innovations that are introduced in the developing world.
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Drone ambulances on both sides of the Atlantic could speed up treatment for victims of motor vehicle accidents, potentially saving millions of lives worldwide.
US military negotiating with University of Nevada surgeons to 3D print the bones and limbs of injured soldiers.
CarVi, an interior camera and smartphone app updates older vehicles' safety features—but will the device be too distracting to drivers?
In the land of universal health care, the idea of telemedicine is as much about cultural change as it is about innovation and cost savings. Are Canadians ready to break new ground?
2015 Connected Patient report finds serious gaps in the use of technology for connected health care. Millennials have a solution—get with the program.
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Talking "Epi-Pen" gives patients and caregivers "out loud" instructions for injecting life-saving epinephrine into those with life-threatening allergies.
#Bell Let’s Talk Day ranks #1 worldwide on Twitter, raising more than CA $6.1 million for Canadian mental health services and helping to reduce stigma.
International study reveals that investments in health information system capacity can reduce barriers to global public health data sharing.
New edutainment app, Look at Me, builds social skills in children with autism and gives families an opportunity to connect.
As part of a larger effort to improve vaccination rates, Alberta Canada’s health agency has contracted with U.S.-based Scientific Technologies Corporation for the implementation of a vaccine management system to reduce waste and ease the disease burden.
Project Artemis, a Big Data analytics platform developed jointly by IBM and the University of Ontario’s Institute of Technology, can detect nosocomial infections in premature babies 24 hours before the symptoms appear.
Doctors aren’t the only ones uses telehealth to support remote care, nurses are also making use of these increasingly vital tools to care for patients around the world.
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