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 […]
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 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, which stands for, Institute for Data Valorization, is unique in its approach and seeks to accelerate Québec’s digital transformation by being a catalyst […]
There are myriad exciting new wearable technology firms tackling health challenges to help people lead better and healthier lives. They are all facing significant challenges in all aspects of the business – technical development, clinical validation, regulatory affairs, productization and user adoption. Only a select few are getting enough of these right to have a […]
As recently reported in the BML Technology Blog, MEDTEQ+ is one of the leading players in the Canadian health technology ecosystem. Their comprehensive suite of program offerings designed to help startups and emerging medical technology companies accelerate innovation and scale their products and services makes them an indispensable participant in the industry, and a principal […]
Developments in the digital health technology industry continued in Q1 of 2021 at the same torrid pace established in 2020 across all areas, including development and launch of new medical technologies, private investments and mergers and acquisitions activity. The persistent COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a catalyst for the rapid adoption of telemedicine initiatives and […]
In our position at the intersection of medical technology, clinical research and patient-centric healthcare, BML Technology is fortunate to work backstage with companies carrying out some of the most innovative and exciting work in digital health today. Carebook Technologies, a dynamic Montreal-based company in the field of digital health technology, is one of these companies. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The year 2020 saw an explosion in all activities related to digital health. Presently we are in what can only be described as a boom period for the health technology industry in terms of the quantity and scale of research efforts. The same can be said of products, tools and digital health technologies launched into […]
CES is the premiere event where new consumer technology and innovation are revealed to the world. It is a proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators and showcases companies in consumer technology hardware, content, technology delivery and more. One of the sectors demonstrating the greatest innovation and growth in tools and technologies empowering consumers […]
This Friday December 4th, don’t miss the last episode of Season 3 of the Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT) Frequency series, in collaboration with the Government of Quebec and the CHUM – Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. Every 2 weeks, Michael Levy, President, Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT), and Kathy Malas, Associate […]
