Read stories about Providence’s impactful innovation initiatives.
2024-09-09 | Innovarium
Providence Health Care Ventures to advance AI-driven medical innovations as part of DIGITAL’s $53M investment
Our strategic partnerships with FluidAI and Medtronic are set to transform patient care by enhancing pressure injury management and revolutionizing postoperative care.
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2024-09-05 | Innovarium
Health Data Innovation: How Providence Health Care Ventures is Helping Shape Vancouver’s Economic Future
From breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to strategic initiatives fueling growth, the report offers an insightful look into how technology is shaping Vancouver's future.
Video: 2024 Innovarium Mission Award - St. Paul’s Hospital Advanced Endoscopic Resection Centre Team
This year marked the inaugural Innovarium Mission Award, a new initiative established in collaboration with PHC Mission and Innovarium teams. This award highlights exceptional individuals or teams…
2024-08-28 | BC Business
How do you mend a broken heart? There’s an algorithm for that, and B.C. innovators are on the case
Cardiologists are recruiting AI to save lives and money and to clear waitlists in our beleaguered health-care system.
2024-07-30 | Aggie Black
The Research Challenge Advisory Committee is delighted to announce funding for four amazing teams in the 2024 Practice-based Research Challenge!
Learn more about the project teams selected and the team leaders.
2024-07-02 | Christine Lyon
Canada's first public long-term care home based on the concepts of a dementia village opens its doors to BC seniors
Canada’s first ever public long-term care home based on the concepts of a dementia village opened its doors today in Comox on Vancouver Island.
2024-06-24 | Fiona Dalton
Brian Simmers appointed President of PHC Ventures
This appointment formalizes the leadership role that Brian has played for PHC Ventures for the past several years.
2024-06-19 | Ann Gibbon
Phiring up better long-term care with an app
An innovation arm of Providence Health Care has teamed up with the Centre for Digital Media (CDM) to create an app designed to enhance care and family engagement in Canadian long-term care homes.
2024-05-06 | Innovarium team
New SPH Immunotherapy in Neurology (SPIN Centre) brings value-based health care to patients
People living with autoimmune neuromuscular disorders are now able to access critical treatments from home, rather than hospital.
2024-01-26 | Christine Lyon
Innovative technology developed and distributed by PHC-lead team empowers rural physicians
With handheld ultrasounds, physicians can scan multiple parts of the body with one device, instead of having to go through a longer process of scanning a particular area with traditional imaging.
2023-12-14 | Ann Gibbon
Defining the future of medicine: CSRC advances
The British Columbia government has approved the business plan and funding for the construction of a state-of-the-art Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC) at the new St. Paul’s Hospital.
2023-11-02 | Grace Jenkins
Free access to the Integrated Health Informatics Datalab (IHID) for a limited time
Did you know? Providence Research is partnering with PHC Ventures to give Providence-affiliated researchers free access to IHID for a limited time.
