The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton represents a collaborative community of researchers that strive to improve the quality of life of patients in Hamilton and around the world. With $26 million in funding – of which a quarter comes from corporate sources – St. Joseph’s 176 researchers produced 531 publications. Highlights of 2016 included […]
Feb-2017
The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) is releasing Health Transformation: An Action Plan for Ontario, which outlines three strategic recommendations to improve Ontario’s health care system. Despite other growing concerns surrounding topics like electricity pricing and climate change, health care sustainability still remains the most important issue for […]
Dr. David Kroff talks about the improving access to new tools and application that can impact care before, during and after imaging. In particular, he focuses on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a next-generation means to make electronic health records more easily available, combining the best features of HL7 vs2, v3, and CDA. For the […]
Jan-2017
On January 13th, the Globe and Mail published an info-graphic outlining the Toronto-Waterloo high-tech corridor, which encompasses 4 urban clusters including Hamilton and represents 15,000 companies employing over a quarter million workers. To see the full graphic in the Globe and Mail, click here
Mariner Endosurgery, an innovative Canadian medical device company announced today the recent completion of an investment round led by several prominent medical device investors and leading laparoscopic surgeons from the Toronto – Hamilton area. “We are very pleased with the strategic investors now on board with Mariner Endosurgery,” said Mitch Wilson, President & COO of […]
Two cutting-edge McMaster-based institutes have received a combined $10 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy is getting $3.75 million over five years, to maintain its state-of-the-art equipment. The Canadian Research Data Centre Network, which has 27 research data centres across the country, will get $5.9 million for the operations and central management of the network at McMaster.
A generous act of health-care philanthropy has allowed St. Joseph’s Healthcare to purchase state-of-the-art ultrasound and angiography machines as well as an air-handling unit that supplies surgical-grade quality air to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. More than 4,000 radiology procedures are expected to be performed at the facility this year. The imaging technology in […]
St. Josehp’s Healthcare experimental project, named TryCycle, has been highlighted in CTV News.
Campbell Clark writes about how through the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, the government will encourage the creation of consortiums of companies, academic institutions and other organizations to put forward proposals for clusters. In the last budget, $800-million was set aside, and in the next few months Ottawa will ask for proposals – […]
Health research is improving lives today and for the future: Too often, we view research as something that happens behind closed doors in laboratories, or as something that takes decades to improve patients’ lives. This perception needs to change. Research is not only about unlocking new possibilities for tomorrow’s patients; it is also about improving the health of our patients today, helping them live longer, healthier lives.