At MedCity INVEST on the Ritz Carlton in Chicago this week, Canadian healthcare startups offered their applied sciences and the way they plan to handle ache factors in healthcare throughout well being tech, medtech and biopharma.
The Consulate Common of Canada in Chicago is presently celebrating the seventy fifth anniversary of its diplomatic presence within the Midwest.
Introduced by the Consulate Common of Canada, the Canadian healthcare startup showcase included 5 corporations. Entrepreneurs from every firm offered their companies plans in a session moderated by Kelsey Tsai, vp, The Blue Enterprise Fund.
OPTT Well being CEO Mohsen Omrani offered its screening and triage device geared toward sufferers to evaluate psychological well being wants and can be utilized to watch and observe affected person remedy.
“Predicting drop off and bettering affected person engagement to retain sufferers are among the many largest challenges in psychological well being,” Omrani stated after his pitch.
Array Well being and PursueCare are amongst its current collaboration companions, Omrani famous.
Hyivy Well being offered its Floora pelvic rehab system to assist girls strengthen their pelvic flooring by bodily remedy residence workout routines that may be tracked by a companion app utilized by sufferers and a software program program for clinicians. Hyivy Well being. Extra broadly, the corporate helps sufferers with endometriosis, pelvic cancers and vaginismus. Its targets are to cut back muscle rigidity, pelvic ache and nerve harm whereas bettering intercourse, bowel and bladder perform, and pure lubrication. For clinicians Hyiv Well being seeks to cut back price per affected person, referrals and ER visits.
True Angle Medical developed a digital device to assist individuals who have issue swallowing meals or liquid known as dysphagia. The causes may be ailments akin to Parkinson’s Illness, stroke, medicine or most cancers remedy, and accidents akin to traumatic mind harm. The corporate developed a tool embedded with a sensor utilizing electromyography that matches beneath the affected person’s chin. It tracks sufferers doing residence workout routines to enhance their situation. The sensor detects and tracks the workout routines and transmits biofeedback to the consumer’s companion app on an iPhone or iPad. The corporate additionally permits the train information to be shared with clinicians to allow them to observe their sufferers’ progress and make changes as wanted. Wanting forward, the corporate seeks so as to add different product verticals.
Careteam Applied sciences presents scientific choice assist instruments together with customized dynamic care plans, affected person engagement, inhabitants well being administration. It helps clinicians work with sufferers to handle persistent circumstances akin to coronary heart illness and diabetes. The corporate helps clinicians to combination customized care plans for sufferers with complicated and persistent well being points. Sufferers and their caregivers can share these aggregated plans with the affected person’s care groups. Healthcare organizations can observe the care plans and verify whether or not they’re adopted, supporting intervention if essential. The objective is to cut back healthcare prices by lowering avoidable hospitalizations.
In a position Improvements seeks to enhance lateral affected person switch in healthcare settings and cut back the bodily pressure on healthcare employees, significantly nurses. A few of the accidents nurses incur by lifting sufferers may be profession ending and contribute to fatigue and burnout. In a position’s ALTA system seeks to maneuver sufferers in a approach that’s dignified for sufferers and reduces the necessity for multiple nurse to maneuver sufferers.
The winner of the Canadian showcase, chosen by the viewers, was Hyivy Well being.
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