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 […]

Brain implant device allows paralyzed individual to communicate using his thoughts

At BML Technology we continuously monitor the healthcare technology and digital health space to stay on top of the latest trends and discoveries taking place to improve patient outcomes. In some cases these affect our consultancy clients and the digital health ecosystem where we operate. For the most part we are simply passionate about medtech […]

Fully autonomous surgical robot successfully performs complex laparoscopic procedure

For the first time in the field a self directed and fully autonomous surgical robot has performed a laparoscopic surgery without the guiding hands of a human. The surgery was carried out by researchers at John Hopkins University and their STAR robotic system, which stands for Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot. This groundbreaking procedure moves the […]

Digital Health Company Spotlight: Ditch Labs

BML Technology is privileged to work backstage with some of the most exciting and innovative companies in the Montréal digital health ecosystem and beyond. We strive to help these firms, many of them startups, navigate complex regulatory environments and manage the stakeholder interactions necessary to get their digital health solutions to market. In these activities […]

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 […]

Will AI inherit our mental disorders?

Will AI suffer from the things our real brains suffer from? Will it be as faulty and as vulnerable as real I? I certainly hope not. But it stands to reason, if the human brain is creating a faster, stronger version of itself, how will our flawed brains ensure its flaws are left out of the new design?  […]