SK’s Digital Properly Being Hub Joins CAN Properly Being Neighborhood

SASKATOON – The Digital Properly being Hub (VHH) and the CAN Properly being Neighborhood are proud to announce a model new strategic partnership and the launch of two commercialization duties with Canadian-made utilized sciences.

VHH objectives to remodel entry to healthcare in Saskatchewan’s distant, rural, and northern communities. It’s a partnership of the Whitecap Dakota Nation, the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Utilized sciences and the Digital Care and Distant Presence Robotic Program led by Dr. Ivar Mendez (pictured) and supported by the federal authorities of Canada and the province of Saskatchewan.

“Digital Properly being Hub is establishing a model of healthcare provide that makes use of superior digital care and artificial intelligence utilized sciences, all rooted in important partnerships with Indigenous communities,” acknowledged Dr. Mendez, director of the Digital Properly being Hub. “The best way ahead for healthcare desires Canadian-made choices that prioritize underserved and marginalized populations.”

VHH is able to be completely operational by February 2027 in a novel, state-of-the-art digital care facility on Whitecap Dakota Nation land, located 26 kilometres south of Saskatoon. The centre will perform a nationwide hub for digital care, leveraging telehealth, artificial intelligence, robotics, and completely different rising devices to ship high-quality suppliers on to communities which have prolonged confronted systemic boundaries to care.

“The province is completely satisfied regarding the new partnership between Digital Properly being Hub and CAN Properly being Neighborhood to help additional innovation in Saskatchewan’s rural, distant and northern communities,” acknowledged authorities of Saskatchewan Minister of Properly being Jeremy Cockrill. “Digital choices that leverage AI utilized sciences are a part of the way in which ahead for healthcare in Canada and investments and partnerships like this are making the long run a actuality in Saskatchewan.”

This partnership between VHH and CAN Properly being Neighborhood marks a critical milestone for every organizations, solidifying a shared dedication to enhancing entry, equity, and nicely being outcomes for northern and Indigenous populations by the use of know-how and collaboration.

“This collaboration ensures that Canadian-made know-how helps improve entry to care in rural and distant communities,” acknowledged Dr. Dante Morra, chair and founding father of the CAN Properly being Neighborhood. “We’re not merely fixing challenges — we’re establishing a additional associated and inclusive nicely being system that basically shows the desires of Canadians.”

As part of the partnership, two new duties are being launched by the use of the CAN Properly being Neighborhood and VHH:

Luxsonic (Saskatchewan): The patented Digital Imaging Platform (VIP) is full stack radiology workflow software program program in-built digital actuality to maximise portability and powered by artificial intelligence to boost productiveness. It permits radiologists to remotely view and interpret diagnostic pictures, supporting faster diagnoses in distant areas, the place entry to imaging specialists is usually delayed or unavailable.

“We’re proud to produce software program program for the VHH which will ship precise change to healthcare in rural and distant communities,” acknowledged Dr. Mike Wesolowski, CEO and Founding father of Luxsonic. “With help from CAN Properly being, Luxsonic VIP will help power the provision of vital diagnostic expertise to any group, no matter how distant.”

Digital Hallway (Nova Scotia): A simple, secure digital platform that allows family physicians to connect quickly with specialists for advice — guaranteeing victims get the right care faster, with out pointless referrals or delays. In the meanwhile in early-stage implementation, this enterprise has sturdy potential to help additional coordinated care all through big areas.

“This partnership is about larger than know-how, it’s about guaranteeing no affected individual is left prepared merely because of the place they dwell,” acknowledged Justin Hartlen, CEO of Digital Hallway. “We’re excited to work with the CAN Properly being Neighborhood and Digital Properly being Hub to ship nicely timed, specialist-informed care to the doorway traces of additional communities in Canada.”

By supporting the blending and scale of made-in-Canada utilized sciences, the partnership may be creating new alternate options for Indigenous administration in digital nicely being provide, whereas serving to to assemble a additional self-sufficient, cost-effective, and inclusive nicely being system.

“The CAN Properly being Neighborhood continues to ship new Canadian nicely being enhancements to market,” acknowledged Mélanie Joly, minister of enterprise and minister liable for Canada Monetary Enchancment for Quebec Areas. “The partnership with Digital Properly being Hub is one different occasion not solely of serving to small and medium-sized firms ship their fashionable healthcare choices to life however as well as of serving to victims in Indigenous communities revenue from these groundbreaking utilized sciences. Congratulations to every organizations on coming collectively.”

“The CAN Properly being Neighborhood helps to make sure that Canadians residing in rural, distant and Indigenous communities revenue from new enhancements in Canadian healthcare,” acknowledged Buckley Belanger, secretary of state (Rural Enchancment). “These two duties are proof that whatever the place you reside, you might get right of entry to top-quality medical care — and digital enhancements are making that potential.”

Through this collaboration, the CAN Properly being Neighborhood and Digital Properly being Hub are setting a model new commonplace for a method know-how, innovation, and partnership can ship tangible outcomes — notably for people who need it most.