There is an excellent “Women in Health Technology” virtual conference event showcasing women founders and entrepreneurs in health technology to be held on December 10th, 2020 at 5PM. The National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada, Hacking Health Global and Prompt will be hosting Josette-Renee Landry of Streamline Genomics, Jade Doucet-Martineau of […]
<MTL> connect brings together digital minds, digitally. It looks across the board at the main questions related to digital development, focusing on their economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts. <MTL> HEALTH | MedTech. The recent digital revolution, accompanied by the current pandemic, is accelerating the digital transformation of the health sector. MedTech (Medical Technology) is […]
We’ve been talking a lot over the past few months about symptoms tracking as a way to reduce the lag that plagues contact tracing. If it works, it would be a critical tool in social distancing and social isolation strategies used by different levels of government. The important thing is to understand how it can […]
Certainly exciting news from the point of view of investment in wearables and health tracking, as now three of the four biggest tech companies in the world, the FAANG companies, are significantly vested in this crossover space. We expect to have a lot more to say about Halo once we understand it better, as the […]
Incredible live demo by Neuralink this evening. Lots to unpack here, but while everyone scrambles to make sense of this, Elon Musk has changed the conversation. Again. And most are missing the key detail. This is no Fitbit. They have been granted breakthrough device designation by the FDA. Which means they will be held to […]
Why the wearables movement desperately needs to take 10,000 steps. There are numbers that mean something to us viscerally. They elicit an image or a feeling without engaging our rational minds. 20 cms of snow. 714 home runs. 92 goals. 12 parsecs. And 10,000 steps. Mahatma Gandhi did a lot of walking in his lifetime. He […]
