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Karen Schulman Dupuis

Peter Adams Talks Canadian Healthcare IT - rdigitaLife - 0 views

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    It's time for a checkup. And the patient is the Canadian healthcare system. According to Peter Adams, the healthcare system is having problems.
Assunta Krehl

Mensante named one of Top 10 Healthcare Companies to Watch | Markets | CNW GROUP | Cana... - 0 views

  • Market research leader IDC Canada has featured MaRS client Mensante as one of its "Ten Canadian Health Companies to Watch" in 2009.
  • Leading international psychiatrists, family physicians, psychologists, work place mental health experts and mental health economists developed an innovative web-based mental healthcare system called FeelingBetterNow(R).
  • Dr. Ozersky, Mensante's CEO, was selected by the Canadian Association of Health Informatics as recipient of the 2008 Community Physician Leader and Innovator of the Year Award.
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  • About Mensante Corporation Mensante Corporation (www.feelingbetternow.com) is a privately owned Canadian corporation, founded in 2003. The Toronto-based company developed FeelingBetterNow(R) with the assistance of leading Canadian and American psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, a mental health economist, and work place mental health-care experts. FeelingBetterNow(R) is a valuable benefit for many, including insurance companies, employers, government agencies, professional associations, family physicians, patients and their families.
  • About MaRS MaRS (www.marsdd.com) is a non-profit innovation centre connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills, networks and capital to stimulate innovation and accelerate the creation and growth of successful Canadian enterprises.
  • Mensante named one of Top 10 Healthcare Companies to Watch
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    As stated in MaRS Press release "IDC Canada has featured MaRS client Mensante as one of its "Ten Canadian Health Companies to Watch" in 2009. Leading international psychiatrists, family physicians, psychologists, work place mental health experts and mental health economists developed an innovative web-based mental healthcare system called FeelingBetterNow(R).The College of Family Physicians of Canada has reviewed and approved FeelingBetterNow(R) as a practice management tool available to assist family physicians in patient care. The Ontario Medical Association approved the program for its members' personal use."
George Botos

Healthcare Reform Delivers a Rosy Outlook For... . The Changing Life Sciences Value Cha... - 0 views

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    With Healthcare legislation well on its way to ultimate approval and implementation, the winds are now calming and its becoming clearer what the tornado has left behind for the pharmaceutical industry. Many had feared it would result in permanent widespread damage, but it appears the storm may actually have carved a path toward greener pastures for the industry.
Assunta Krehl

Healthcare Efficiency and Technology - Business News Network - Headline - February 1, ... - 0 views

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    "How can new technologies make Canada's healthcare system more efficient? BNN asks Joseph Cafazzo, Lead, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation and Peter Adams, Senior Health IT Advisor, MaRS Discovery District."
Assunta Krehl

Cure may be right under our noses - Star Business Club - May 27, 2012 - 1 views

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    CHALLENGE: It's got potential and is ready to be built, but is the science sound? And can a fringe medical treatment have mass appeal?
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    Lew Lim founder of Mediclights is a MaRS client and is bringing intranasal light therapy to Canada. Peter Adams, a MaRS Life Science and Healthcare IT advisor is working with Lim to commercializing this innovation. They would like to see Toronto as the new hub for interanasal laser research.
Assunta Krehl

Wirelessly enabling the long-distance house call - The Globe and Mail - January 20, 2012 - 0 views

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    Dr John Semple helped to created an app that is being in the healthcare industry in Canada for diagnoses. Peter Adams, senior health-care IT adviser, MaRS Discovery District, describs "Dr. Semple's app as the "tip of the iceberg," ... technology and others like it are capable of saving the health-care system millions in unnecessary hospital readmissions, needless suffering and potential deaths."
Assunta Krehl

What's wrong with Ontario - and how to make it right - The Globe and Mail - February 18... - 1 views

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    Adam Radwanski, Tim Kiladze and Tara Perkins, reports of the Globe and Mail state "Don Drummond's report caused a stir with its cost cuts and gloomy forecasts. But one positive result was that it spurred a serious examination of how to reinvent the economy." Ilse Treurnict, CEO, MaRS Discovery District,  states that the "health care sector is growing."
Assunta Krehl

FDA clears Segasist Prostate Auto-Contouring Software - PR Newswire - October 20, 2011 - 0 views

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    Segasist Technologies, a MaRS Discovery District Client, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Prostate Auto-Contouring software 'Segasist P-AC'.
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Innovation selects umbilical cord stem cell technology from Samuel Lunenfeld Resea... - 0 views

  • MaRS Innovation and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaboratively initiate commercialization of an umbilical cord stem cell technology for potential treatment in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and neurological disorders.
  • With the Toronto area identified as a world-leading cluster in stem cell research, we are extremely excited to have identified this technology as our first commercialization opportunity,” said Dr. Rafi Hofstein, President and CEO of MaRS Innovation.
  • MaRS Innovation, along with the inventors and Mount Sinai, will initially focus on the diabetes application for the technology, as research has demonstrated that these cells uniquely secrete insulin in response to glucose, thereby mimicking the “normal” physiological state.
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  • The technology – invented by Mount Sinai scientists Dr. Ian Rogers and Dr. Robert Casper – offers a proprietary method to create multi-potent stem cells (MPSCs) from human umbilical cord blood.
  • With MaRS Innovation's participation, we are optimistic we will succeed."
  • Our partnership with MaRS Innovation on developing methods for using stem cells for diseases such as diabetes will allow us to work towards advancing care for these critical conditions." With the launch of this first exciting opportunity, MaRS Innovation has embarked on a journey to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into a successful commercialization cluster.
  • MaRS Innovation is building its own internal infrastructure to support intellectual property and market due diligence to identify the most promising commercial opportunities. MaRS Innovation is dedicated to converting the outstanding science of its member institutions into products and services, making a significant contribution to Canada’s future economic outlook and the quality of life for Canadians and others around the world
  • “We are deeply committed to creating a powerful engine for commercialization that brings together an experienced team to identify and validate market opportunities, develop technologies to market requirements and build the linkages that will advance the exceptional research of all of our institutional members,” added Dr. Hofstein. “We look forward to announcing additional technologies to add to our pipeline over the next several weeks.”
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    MaRS Innovation and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital are announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaboratively initiate commercialization of an umbilical cord stem cell technology for potential treatment in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and neurological disorders.
Assunta Krehl

The Next Frontier in Mental Health: Moving Science to Patients - The Wall Street Journa... - 0 views

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    "The Graham Boeckh Foundation will be hosting its' first symposium, The Next Frontier in Mental Health: From Research to Patients, to discuss and provide insights on the translation of research into improved patient care and how we can move forward towards greatly improving community mental health practice in this country." The event will be held at the MaRS Centre on April 24, 2012.
Assunta Krehl

Breast cancer evolves years before detected, two scientific studies find - The Star - M... - 0 views

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    According to Theresa Boyle, Health Report of The Star, states that scientists have discovered the process that underlies in the development of cancer cell mutations in breast cancer. Mike Stratton who is part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium at the MaRS Centre states these "findings will go a long way in helping the consortium achieve its goal of mapping the genetic mutations in 50 different types of cancer by 2018."
Assunta Krehl

Baycrest builds cloud portal with SharePoint online - IT in Canada - January 6, 2012 - 0 views

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    Baycrest is a provides healthcare for elderly patients and is the research centre for the development of innovation on aging and brain health. Mary Allen, report from IT in Canada states "Baycrest places a good deal of emphasis on collaboration - with the University of Toronto to meet research goals, with the MaRS Discovery District for commercialization of products to maintain healthy cognitive functioning."
Sarah Hickman

The Business of Healthcare Innovation: Amazon.ca: Lawton Robert Burns: Books - 0 views

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    Robert Lawton Burns focuses on the key role of the 'producers' as the main source of innovation in this wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing branch of the health care industry. Written by industry academics and executives, the book provides a detailed overview of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, genomics/proteomics, medical device and information technology sectors. Most importantly, it describes the growing convergence between these sectors and the need for executives in one sector to increasingly draw upon trends in the others.
Assunta Krehl

Encycle Therapeutics Launches Ground-Breaking Chemistry Platform - Canada Newswire - Ju... - 0 views

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    "Encycle Therapeutics, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, has created a ground-breaking chemistry platform for cyclizing peptides that promises to increase the efficiency of the early-stage drug discovery process."
Assunta Krehl

Fox vows to boost all Parkinson's groups - The Star - 0 views

  • Introducing his powerful Parkinson's disease foundation into his native Canada today, actor Michael J. Fox pledged that the research-based charity would help boost all groups working in the field.
  • Michael J. Fox introduced his Parkinson's disease foundation at the MaRS Centre in Toronto today.
  • Fox's group has poured $150 million (U.S.) into international stem cell research and cutting edge neuroscience since it was formed in 2000.
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    Michael J Fox introduced his Parkinson's disease foundation at the MaRS Centre in Toronto Sept 24, 2009.
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