DELTA, BC – November 17, 2024 – Tochtech is pleased to be accepted into Innovation Factory’s HEALTHI (Hamilton Ecosystem to Accelerate and Leverage Trials of Health Innovation) program, delivered in partnership with the Synapse Life Science Consortium. HEALTHI supports Canadian-based life science companies to work with world-class clinicians and hospital facilities to create pre-trial protocols and documents required to undertake a commercialization project or clinical trial. HEALTHI services are supported in part by funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP).
As part of the HEALTHI program, Tochtech is working with the Innovation and Partnerships Team at The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton to assess a use case for Tochtech in an Ontario healthcare organization. Outcomes from the HEALTHI project may lead to downstream innovation evaluation opportunities and may help St. Joe’s Hamilton gain insight into challenges faced with sleep monitoring of its patients.
“Tochtech is thrilled to be accepted into Innovation Factory’s HEALTHI program and to be working in partnership with St. Joe’s Hamilton,” said Jessica Yang, CEO of Tochtech Technologies. “I am confident that through this program we will be able to demonstrate the value ‘Sleepsense’ will bring to improving patient and quality of care outcomes. To date, Sleepsense is being used to support thousands of seniors and care staff in Long Term Care by offering critical insights and filling gaps in the provision of care. This partnership is important to Tochtech as we expand our reach into the healthcare sector.”
David Carter, Innovation Factory’s CEO, commented, “HEALTHI provides support and resources to disruptive health technology innovators, like Tochtech. These businesses are not only actively enhancing healthcare and its management but also spurring economic development as they scale their successful start-ups.”
About Tochtech
Tochtech Technologies is a digital healthcare company whose mission is to build smart, cost-effective senior care solutions that offer caregivers peace-of-mind while enabling seniors to live healthier and safer lives. Tochtech’s philosophy centres around the use of technology to eliminate the risk and sense of disconnect for seniors, especially those living independently. Tochtech has developed first-in-class and award-winning solutions for stove safety, sleep monitoring and improvement, emotional connection and support and a risk-predictive smart care platform. Using voice integration, AI and proprietary algorithms, these innovative solutions enable caregivers to provide proactive and personalized care to extend older adults’ ability to live healthy and longer lives.
www.tochtech.com
About Innovation Factory
Innovation Factory is a not-for-profit business accelerator, serving as the catalyst for technology innovation in the Brant, Halton, Hamilton and Norfolk regions since 2010. Innovation Factory provides business services, training, mentorship, and strategic connections to drive market adoption, leverage intellectual property, and increase revenues, investment, and jobs. Innovators can also access sector-specific resources including exclusive smart transportation test environments and data; and a formal life science and health innovation ecosystem.
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About The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton
The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton oversees the work of over 700 investigators, staff members, learners, and fellows conducting research at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton – a premier academic and health sciences centre located in Hamilton, Ontario. We lead disruptive innovation to create, test, and spread novel solutions that radically improve patient, caregiver, and provider experiences and outcomes. Our unique ecosystem enables industry-sponsored research, clinical trials, and innovative evaluations with world class researchers, clinicians, and learners, which are further supported by a diverse patient population. Learn more at stjoes.ca/innovation.
