May 2023 AltumView is proud to be selected as one of only five Canadian companies for the UK Canada AgeTech Innovation Exchange Programme, and will visit UK in June 2023, and prepare for entering the UK market. Over 60 companies applied for a place in the coveted programme, with a total of eight UK companies and five Canadian companies invited Read more…
June 13, 2022 Dr. Jie Liang, President of AltumView, and a Professor of the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University (SFU), is elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). “The CAE Fellows have been selected for their outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and around the world and for their service as role models in Read more…
May 26, 2022: AltumView proudly received a grant from AGE-WELL’s AgeTech Implementation Response (AIR) Program, which helps get innovations implemented in the real world to make a difference in the lives of older Canadians and caregivers. AGE-WELL NCE is Canada’s technology and aging network dedicated to improving the quality of lives of older adults and caregivers. AGE-WELL’s AgeTech Implementation Response Read more…
Feb. 2022. The SAM3 Lab is a collaboration between the Bruyère Research Institute and Carleton University in partnership with the AGE-WELL Network Centres of Excellence. Dr. Bruce Wallace (Professor of Carleton, Researcher of Bruyère, and Executive Director of SAM3) and his team is using AltumView’s smart activity sensor to help seniors age in place. Click here to see an article and video Read more…
The world is aging quickly, and goverments around the world are increasing investments to tackle the aging population challenges. Recently, the Johns Hopkins University received a $20 million grant from the National Institute on Aging that will develop artificial intelligence (AI) devices to improve the health of older adults and help them live independently for longer — a relatively untapped Read more…
June 10, 2021 AltumView is selected by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service in Poland and The Heart as one of eight speakers at the Canadian Technology Day, to be held on June 17, 2021, showcasing leading digital health scaleups to corporations in Poland and Europe. The meeting is dedicated to the health industry as well as banks, insurers and other companies that Read more…
TOKYO, May 31, 2021 AltumView is among the top startup companies around the world selected by Plug and Play Japan into the IoT program of its Summer/Fall 2021 Batch, which will be carried out from June to September 2021, during which the selected startups will have full access to various events and seminars that assist their business development such as business matching Read more…
May 6, 2021 The President of AltumView, Prof. Jie Liang, will be invited to present at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), on May 12, 2021. The recent coronavirus pandemic has rendered our healthcare system on the verge of collapse, which pushes us to think seriously about the sustainable future of healthcare. The rapid advancements in artificial Read more…
From Mangar Health: A third of people aged over 65 (a statistic which rises to 50% in people aged over 80) will fall at least once a year. 20% of senior living community residents admitted to hospital after such a fall will have been on the floor for over an hour, and perhaps most shocking is that of those, 50% will Read more…
This New York Times article explains why falling and lying on the floor for several hours could become life threating for seniors. Creatine phosphokinase, or CPK, is an enzyme found in muscle cells in the body. If a muscle is injured or inflamed, the level will rise. That injury, called rhabdomyolysis, was first described in survivors of the London blitz Read more…