The Mayo Clinic Platform’s Accelerate Program announces the 7 AI startups in the second cohort of its Artificial Intelligence accelerator

The world renowned Mayo Clinic has announced the second cohort of 7 digital health artificial intelligence focused startups into its MAYO CLINIC PLATFORM_ACCELERATE Program. The program is designed to help digital health startups develop and validate their artificial intelligence-driven health care solutions and advance their business plans. The Mayo Clinic The Mayo Clinic is one […]

Machine learning algorithm developed at John Hopkins University helps identify the early signs of Sepsis in real time

Through our BML Health Blog in addition to informing our clients, partners and other stakeholders of the latest happenings at BML Technology, we also seek to inform the community about some of the latest interesting ways in which innovative companies, research centers, universities and other organizations are creating the future of healthcare by integrating the […]

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Three interesting use cases of AI in Healthcare

For several years now, we have been hearing daily pronouncements that artificial intelligence is revolutionizing healthcare.  Like it or not, hype or veritas, artificial intelligence in its many forms is penetraitng several segments of the health technology field already, and practically overwhleming the digital health industry. This is clearly a persistent industry trend, elements of […]

Join our own Marc Saab discussing ‘Connected Medical Devices and the challenges they pose’ with Martin Poulin as part of the ACCE Educational Webinar Series

UPDATE: This Webinar took place on January 13th, 2022. A recording of the Webinar is not yet available. As soon as it becomes available we will make it accessible from this article. Thank You. Join our Founder and Managing Director, Marc Saab and Martin Poulin, Director of Biomedical Engineering at Island Health and a Member […]

Aifred Health: Digital Health Company Spotlight

The Montréal digital health ecosystem is experiencing explosive growth in value creation, innovation and success. This edition of the BML Digital Health Company Spotlight features one of our favourite Montréal medical technology startups that we believe has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of mental health conditions, starting with depression. The company in question is […]

BML Technology Managing Director Marc Saab to present on Connected Medical Devices and Data at the IVADO JQVD Oct. 25, 2021

The Montreal based IVADO institute is a Québec-wide collaborative institute in the field of digital intelligence, dedicated to transforming new scientific discoveries into concrete applications and benefits for all of society. IVADO, (Institute for Data Valorization) seeks to accelerate Québec’s digital transformation by being a catalyst for progress in research into the harnessing of big data for decision-making.  […]

Congratulations to Montreal’s Aifred Health on finishing 2nd in the IBM Watson AI XPrize competition and winning the $1 Million Prize

Huge congratulations go out to Aifred Health Co-Founders David Benrimoh MD, Kelly Perlman, Sonia Israel, Robert Fratila as well as CEO Marina Massingham and the whole team at Aifred Health on winning the $1 Million Second Place prize in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition! The prestigious $5M IBM Watson AI XPRIZE challenged teams to […]

Congratulations to the team at Ditch Labs on completing a $1.3 Million Seed Round to Solve Nicotine Addiction and Tobacco use

Congratulations go out to Laurent Laferrière, Olivier Bourbonnais, Christelle Luce and the whole team at Montreal based startup Ditch Labs on the closing of a $1.3 Million Seed investment round. The capital injection will allow the company to pursue preclinical studies, advance its global regulatory plan and further product and algorithm development. Founded in 2019 Ditch […]

Google’s new Dermatology Assist Tool is Using AI to help find answers to common skin conditions

At its recent I|O Developer conference Google announced the launch of a new Artificial Intelligence powered Dermatology Assistant Tool to help individuals find answers to questions relating to issues with their skin, hair and nails through a simple web based application. Consistent with the belief that AI has the potential to assist clinicians in caring […]

The Google Fit App will allow users to measure their heart rate and respiratory rate using the phone’s camera

Google has announced that starting in March 2021 their Google Fit App will allow users to measure their heart rate and respiratory rate using only their Pixel phone’s camera, with plans to expand the service to more Android devices in the future. This move by Google comprises a foray into a next level of fitness […]

View an interesting data driven look at healthcare in the ‘State Of Healthcare’ Report from CB Insights

Continuing with the strong growth and record pace we’ve observed in investments across all sectors of health care and digital health in particular, CB Insights has come out with their ‘State of Health Care Report’ for 2020, which states that this trend is global in nature and quite strong, with global healthcare funding hitting an […]