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HealthPRO Canada is pleased to announce that Silverlon, a leader in advanced wound care technology, continues to innovate with our Innovation Accelerator Program! This new pricing agreement brings Silverlon’s Antimicrobial Silver-Plated IV Disc Dressings to our members, empowering them with innovative solutions that elevate patient care. 🔗 Click here to learn more: bit.ly/3ZpIdY1 #Healthcare #HealthcareInnovation #PatientCare

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#OptimumTV welcomes back one of its first interviewees, Eliane Schutte of Xeltis, to talk about its plans for aXess, its vascular access conduit for dialysis patients that over time becomes a part of their own living tissue. Watch Eliane talk about the progress Xeltis has made since last May, how they are pushing forward with pivotal trials in Europe and the US, and the company’s plans to commercialise the product. #RegenerativeMedicine #Dialysis #KidneyDisease

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📣 PRESS RELEASE - COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT 🗞️ Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 – May 29, 2024 – UpCare Partners & Associates Inc., a Toronto-based neuroscience 🧠 company founded by Olivier Poitier and Benoit S. in 2019, proudly announces the establishment of UpCare Europe SAS, based in Nice, France 🇫🇷 . This strategic move marks a significant milestone in the company's journey to expand its reach into the European 🇪🇺 market and cater to French-speaking countries. UpCare Europe SAS recently achieved a significant milestone by obtaining its EUDAMED license, enabling the organization to address all markets within the European Union. This achievement further solidifies UpCare's position as a leader in the field of neuroscience and underscores its dedication to meeting regulatory standards and delivering safe, effective solutions to patients. Read to full press release attached ⤵️ #Canada #France #medtech #neuroscience #Europe #expansion

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🔉Avoid the Pitfalls: How to Secure Your MDEL and Enter the Canadian Market! Navigating the regulatory landscape of the Canadian MedTech industry can be challenging, especially for newcomers. One of the essential steps to ensuring compliance and accessing this lucrative market is obtaining a Medical Device Establishment License (MDEL). Whether you're a manufacturer, importer, or distributor, understanding the MDEL requirements is crucial to avoiding costly delays and legal pitfalls. In our latest guide, we provide a clear roadmap to help you secure your MDEL and maintain compliance with Health Canada’s regulations. From setting up a robust Quality Management System (QMS) to managing documentation and post-approval audits, we cover everything you need to know to succeed in the Canadian market. Read on to learn how to simplify the MDEL process and ensure your medical devices meet the highest standards of safety and efficacy. 👉https://hubs.ly/Q02Nw2l10 #MedicalDevices #MedTech #HealthTech #MedicalDeviceRegulations #MDEL #HealthCanada #RegulatoryCompliance #QualityManagement #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalDeviceIndustry #HealthcareCompliance

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"The approval of ZORYVE® foam by Health Canada is a significant development in the management of seborrheic dermatitis." – Dr. Melinda Gooderham Arcutis Canada just made a major breakthrough with the approval of ZORYVE® foam, the first topical treatment for seborrheic dermatitis in over 20 years! This steroid-free, once-daily foam offers rapid relief from symptoms like itching and redness, with nearly 80% of patients seeing results in just 8 weeks. 🙌 At the Toronto Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology (TIPT), we’re always inspired by cutting-edge innovations like these that elevate patient care and health outcomes. As we train the next generation of pharmaceutical professionals, staying ahead of such advances is what empowers our students to lead in a fast-evolving industry. 💊 Learn More: https://lnkd.in/gcNeRuvZ #TIPT #PharmaceuticalInnovation #HealthCanada #SeborrheicDermatitis #ZORYVE #TorontoInstituteofPharmaceuticalTechnology

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🚀 Transforming Healthcare Training: The Power of Virtual Reality in MedTech Innovation 🚀 The landscape of healthcare delivery is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the rapid evolution of digital solutions. Technology is revolutionizing how healthcare services are provided, making them more accessible, efficient, and personalized. However, this rapid pace of technological advancement presents a significant challenge: the need for healthcare professionals to continuously update their skills and knowledge to keep up with these innovations. Enter Virtual Reality (VR) as a transformative tool in this context. VR offers a promising solution to bridge the gap between the rapid evolution of healthcare technology and the training demands it imposes. By providing immersive, interactive learning environments, VR can simulate complex medical procedures, new technologies, and patient interactions in a way that traditional methods cannot. Join me on September 20th at the MedTech-NB Summit where I'll be presenting on how VR is poised to revolutionize healthcare training by addressing the growing burden of keeping up with the evolving healthcare landscape. We will examine its potential to enhance learning, improve skill acquisition, and ultimately bridge the gap between the rapid pace of technological change and the ongoing needs of healthcare professionals. #Healthcare #VR #Innovation #HealthcareTraining #FutureOfHealthcare #Dräger

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Socialized medicine in Canada: free ? Well, yes and no, especially if you are a cancer patient. Choosing to delay or deny treatments. Missing work, or having to quit in light of the limited unemployment support in Canada, either for patients or supportive family members. Transportation or having to spend time near a hospital and away from home. Overall, 33,000$ are spent by a patient to be treated for cancer. But let`s be honest here: in the USA, such a cost could be 10-100 times higher. Still, we do need to do better in Canada. Maybe the first step would be to extend UI benefit beyond the actual 15 weeks... https://lnkd.in/eBikCPt4

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What’s an amazing first day in Toronto! Can’t say a big enough THANK YOU to our incredible friends at Théa Pharma Canada for arranging another super fun interview with Claudine Courey, OD MSc FAAO FSLS for #The2020Podcast. Here are a few topics we covered during the interview: 👉🏼 Setting boundaries to achieve personal and professionally success 👉🏼 Neuropathic pain 👉🏼 PRGF (platelet rich in growth factor) 👉🏼 Entrepreneurship and personal growth Excited to share this interview with you soon!! #optometry #seerelief #leadership

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Over the past couple of years, advancing environmentally sustainable kidney care has become a key focus of BC Renal as we strive to implement planetary health strategies across our provincial network. Two new studies have substantiated these positive developments among kidney health professionals: a survey of over 500 care providers, in which the majority reported high levels of concern about climate change and unnecessary waste; and a study identifying various strategies for dialysis nurses to further environmental sustainability in the workplace. To learn more, check out our article, originally published in our BC Kidney Research in Focus newsletter: https://ow.ly/AZQY50UsivZ #KidneyCare #KidneyHealth #KidneyDisease #EnvironmentalSustainability #PlanetaryHealth

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Another great example of Connected Care in action in Canada! True story… A commercial truck driver with diabetes is on the road and has a sudden serious drop in his blood glucose (hypoglycemia)...an immediate unexpected health & safety risk. He's wearing a Dexcom real-time CGM. His phone alerts of the low glucose risk but for whatever reason he doesn't realize it. The good news...he's a participant in the TH@CLINIC real-world study, designed to assess the impact of connected virtual care on truckers' health. And as a participant, his Dexcom rtCGM is connected to a remote virtual monitoring system, enabling a nurse to track his glucose data & alerts from any location. With these remote insights in the moment, the nurse calls the trucker, tells him to pull over and supports him in treating his low glucose. As the story goes, "it saved his life". Read more about TH@CLINIC at https://lnkd.in/eTWqybfV Dexcom Canada is pleased to be an initial supporting partner of TH@CLINIC, along with Routinify (Well Assist) and Valley Healthcare. The project is proving the impact of connected care, through the integration of digital health technologies and virtual services. Congratulations to Dr. Jalila Jbilou and the entire TH@CLINIC team! Looking forward to continued success and expansion. Accelerating the introduction of connected care models like TH@CLINIC is now vital to efficient, sustainable delivery and democratization of care for Canadians with chronic conditions in particular diabetes. Digital solutions augment "traditional care", with continuous on-demand assistance with the 24/7 demands of diabetes, and drive health equity by enabling broader access to care for deprived populations.

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Let's Ask PTS is back with a new episode on Business Continuity. This time, Robin covers the question of remote access to your pharmacy. #LetsAskPTS #McKessonCanada #PharmacyTechnologySolutions #PharmacyAutomation

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Looking forward to the #OTA meeting next week. When it's in Canada, you can't help but to think about the debate around socialized medicine if you are from the US. It's no panacea, but Canada's healthcare costs are at $8K+ per person, while the US is $13K+ per person with comparable outcomes. How's that for a Halloween scare? Come to booth 335 to chat about how to fix this terrible metric together! #valuebasedcare #orthopaedics #orthopedics #orthosurgery

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This study aimed to create a Patient-Reported Experience Measure (PREM) to compare care experiences in emergency departments, walk-in clinics, and primary care practices. Developed through a rigorous 5-phase mixed-methods approach, the Ambulatory Patient EXperience (APEX) questionnaire showed high clarity and usefulness, while pilot testing revealed significantly better access, cleanliness, and respectful treatment in clinics compared to EDs. This tool promises to enhance patient experience evaluation across diverse clinical settings. You can read more about the APEX questionnaire and the its promising impact on enhancing patient experiences and shaping the future of healthcare here: https://lnkd.in/eGy-hzJM #Healthcare #PatientExperience #QualityCare Laura Cooley, PhD Sage

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⭐ 🗣️ Mark your calendars! Join us on August 28th, 2024, at the Laurie Hendren Symposium on Patient-in-the-Loop Data! It was Laurie Hendren’s vision that all patients in Quebec will have immediate access to all of their health data. The Opal Health Informatics Group and the Quebec SmartCare Consortium have been working on achieving this vision but there is much work still to be done. This symposium will bring together international and local experts on sharing data with patients to discuss how we can achieve Laurie’s vision. We will explore the concept of “patient-in-the-loop” data, which we define as clinical data that are shared with the patient just as they are with the other members of the patient’s care team. More details coming soon #PatientInTheLoopData #HealthDataAccess #PatientCare #LauriesVision

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Great news! Our FreeO2 device is featured in a CTV News Montreal article! 📣 This recognition confirms our mission to improve care and facilitate the work of caregivers. The FreeO₂ is a step towards better management of respiratory insufficiency. It has the potential to transform oxygen administration in the hospital environment, automatically adjusting flow to meet individual patient needs. Discover the article ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eBV2PXVS

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Are you a heath care professional in BC? Your voice matters in shaping the future of healthcare! Take 5-10 min to complete our survey on Pharmacogenomics (PGx) education and awareness among healthcare providers. Your insights will guide us in developing crucial resources for personalized medicine. https://bit.ly/BCPGxSurvey Let’s elevate personalized medicine and improve patient care. #Healthcare #PersonalizedMedicine #Pharmacogenomics

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