Restoring Independence After Stroke with IRegained Inc.
Read the Hamilton Health Innovation Checkup recap with IRegained to learn about their journey and how they leveraged the Hamilton ecosystem.
Innovating Treatment for Fungal Nail Infections with ToeFX
Read the Hamilton Health Innovation Checkup recap with ToeFX to learn about their journey and milestones as an innovator from the Hamilton ecosystem.
Made-in-Hamilton app speeds up lifesaving treatment for heart attacks
The Ontario Centre of Innovation recently announced $500,000 in provincial funding to expand a made-in-Hamilton smartphone app into the Ottawa region.
Able Innovations announces $7.5 million to take the pain out of patient transfer
The Toronto-based robotic medical device startup (and Innovation Factory HEALTHI program participant) focuses on the problem of patient transfer—a run-of-the-mill, labour-intensive procedure that usually involves some combination of porters, nurses, and orderlies lifting a patient from point a to point b, sometimes using bed sheets or a slider board. The typical patient transfer process as […]
Bay Area Health Trust supplies Ontario with McMaster Molecular Medium for COVID-19 PCR test kits
Bay Area Health Trust will be supplying Ontario’s provincial labs with its McMaster Molecular Medium (MMM), a molecular transport medium that is a critical component of COVID-19 PCR testing. This is a repeat order of the made-in-Ontario product by the procurement authority representing the Province of Ontario. MMM is on Public Health Ontario’s approved list […]
FendX (out of McMaster) pathogen-repelling wrap earns top prize in global innovation competition
The McMaster engineers who invented a plastic surface that repels bacteria and viruses have earned top prize in a design competition that drew 750 entries from 60 countries around the world. Leyla Soleymani and Tohid Didar, founders of FendX Technologies, led the team that created RepelWrap, have been named grand prize winners in the 2020 […]
VoxNeuro receives Health Canada Class II Medical Device designation
VoxNeuro has received Health Canada Class II Medical Device designation for its proprietary Cognitive Health Assessment Management Platform™ (CHAMP). VoxNeuro will begin rolling out the software as a medical device across its Canadian Test Centers. This news comes hot on the heels of VoxNeuro’s FDA registration for the distribution of CHAMP as a Class II […]
Hamilton Health Sciences develops smartphone app to help concussion patients
A Hamilton Health Sciences team has developed an innovative smartphone application that will soon help patients manage the effects of concussions on their daily lives. The MyHeadHealth mobile app will provide concussion patients with a personalized treatment plan, instructional videos, educational tools and a way for them to input information on their health and symptoms. […]