Healthtech

Canadian AI Healthtech
Aug 20, 2019 ● Isabelle Kirkwood League Partners with Vector Institute to Improve Platform’s AI Capabilities

Together, the two will work to improve personalization of League's Healthcare Benefits Experience (HBX) platform

Canadian AI Healthtech
Jul 16, 2019 ● Katie Willis Alberta Researchers Use AI to Detect Depression in Voices

The researchers built on past studies suggesting the timbre of our voice contains information about our mood

Canadian AI Healthtech Funding
Jul 15, 2019 ● Aisha Malik Trudeau Liberals Pledge $150 Million Toward Big Data Cancer Research Initiative

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor made the announcement in Moncton on Thursday

Canadian AI Healthtech Funding
Jul 04, 2019 ● Isabelle Kirkwood BenchSci’s Total Funding Reaches $27 Million as Gradient Ups Investment

Toronto-based BenchSci has built a database which helps researchers find antibody usage data

Canadian AI Healthtech Education
Jun 26, 2019 ● Isabelle Kirkwood UWaterloo, Microsoft Partner to Use AI for Socially-Driven Projects

Early projects focus on autistic individuals, aging populations, climate change, and natural disaster response

Canadian AI Healthtech Funding
Jun 21, 2019 ● Sean Silcoff Montreal Telemedicine Startup Dialogue Raises $40-million in Financing Led by Caisse

The Caisse makes the investment from a $250-million fund earmarked for AI startups

Canadian AI Healthtech
Jun 17, 2019 ● Liam Casey CAMH to Use AI, Data Science to Better Understand Mental Health

The newly opened Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics hopes to leverage machine learning to solve neuroscience problems

Canadian AI Healthtech
May 28, 2019 ● Jasmine Pennic Canadian Government Awards $49M Grant to Establish Canada-wide AI Health Data Platform

Researchers and doctors will use the platform to accelerate development of new and personalized treatments