Datify wins Manulife Smart Tech Challenge and a RED Lab residency
Formerly known as Lifestyle Insurance, Datify took home top honours at the Manulife Smart tech Challenge in Kitchener this…
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Team Raisins wins SportsHack 2014, Toronto’s first sports wearables hackathon
“Hardware is just a case around the software today,” said Bruce Croxon, notable early-stage investor and former Dragon,…
Healthcare Startup Self Care Catalysts Receives $100,000 from Rick Hanson Institute
Patient intelligence health solution provider Self Care Catalysts has received $100,000 in funding from the Rick Hanson Institute…
Markham EHR Tech Startup Nightingale Receives $3.5M Secured Loan
Markham’s Nightingale Informatix Corporation, a technology company on the TSX-V that provides Electronic Health Record…
The Funding Portal Wants to Make It Easier for HealthTech Companies to Get Money
The Funding Portal, a Toronto-based government grants consultancy service that also offers a searchable database of over 7,000…
Vancouver’s Medeo Teams Up with PwC to Help Get Its Virtual Solution Across Canada
Vancouver healthtech startup Medeo is teaming up with PwC Canada, the Canadian arm of the big multinational professional services…
Healthcare Access App iamsick.Ca Expands Nationwide
Iamsick.ca, the app that helps Canadians access healthcare, is extending its reach beyond Ontario with support from its crowdfunding…
Canadian Student Wins $10,000 “Kiss My App” Contest
To see one of Canada’s busiest labour and delivery hospital networks facilitate a national app contest that benefits…
Sunnybrook and Ryerson Brains Get $100,000 for New Chemo Research
Two heads of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Ryerson University have received $100,000 for their clinical technique that…
From Machine Code to the Code of Life: Chatting With Genome BC’s Dr. Alan Winter
“The issue in genomics is that we’re at about 1983 on the IT side. The applications in genomics today are much like spreadsheets…
Seamless Mobile Health, Learning Bird Among Winners at TiEQuest 2014
Canada’s largest business venture competition announced its winners late last week, when TiEQuest 2014 crowned Seamless…
Surrey, BC: “We’ll be like a Silicon Valley for Health Care in Canada”
It’s been barely a year since it’s launch and Ryan D’Arcy said “it’s been moving like a bullet train: a lot has…
Not a Silver Bullet, But Close: PHEMI’s Prescription for Fixing the Health Care System
Technology is not the health care system’s silver bullet, but individuals choosing to live healthier is. Believing in…
Mobile Apps in Healthcare and #BeAnOrganDonor Twitter Campaigns: HealthAchieve2013 Takes a Deeper Look This Week
HealthAchieve2013, the largest health care conference of its kind in North America, kicks off today at the Metro Toronto…
Will the AIRO Health-Monitoring Wristband Kill the Activity Tracker?
The fitness bracelet is back. It hasn’t been since 2004 that I’ve seen so many people sporting a rubber band on their wrist…