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Cision Canada
11 hours ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
Major Investment from Genome Canada to Help Advance ClarityDX Prostate Adoption Across Canada
Funding to Propel Widespread Adoption and Integration of Innovative Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Test into Canadian Healthcare EDMONTON, AB, June 26, 2025 /CNW/ - Nanostics Inc., a precision health company developing diagnostic tests with its ClarityDX® platform technology, announced today significant financial support from Genome Canada and Genome Alberta through the Canadian Biotechnology Innovation and Commercialization Initiative (CBIC) to accelerate the integration of ClarityDX Prostate into the standard of care for prostate cancer screening across Canada. This project is propelled by academic, clinical, and economic collaborations with leadership from Dr. John Lewis, Bird Dogs Chair in Translational Oncology at the University of Alberta, Partnerships and Innovation at Acute Care Alberta (formerly Alberta Health Services), and Nanostics. ClarityDX Prostate is a laboratory-developed test that uses machine learning to combine clinical and blood-based biomarker data to predict the risk of aggressive, clinically significant prostate cancer and is currently offered as a patient-pay test. This pivotal funding will further support the adoption of ClarityDX Prostate into the standard of care for prostate cancer screening, first in Alberta, then across Canada. The anticipated outcome of this project is a stronger, more responsive, and cost-effective healthcare system for Canadians facing the challenge of prostate cancer. The project's primary objective is to assemble a comprehensive evidence package demonstrating the clinical efficacy and economic value of incorporating ClarityDX Prostate into Canada's prostate cancer diagnostic pathway. This evidence will help pave the way for reimbursement and increased public accessibility. The evidence package will include results from a clinical utility study, a health impact feasibility study, and a health system integration study. "We are very grateful for Genome Canada's support of this project," said Dr. John Lewis, Bird Dogs Chair of Translational Oncology. "This unique opportunity to collaborate directly with Acute Care Alberta will accelerate adoption of ClarityDX Prostate, and more importantly, help improve the outcomes of men in their journey of screening and diagnosis for prostate cancer." "This project is an example of how Acute Care Alberta is collaborating with academia, industry, and care providers to ensure that Albertans have access to the best quality healthcare," said Tara Klassen Ph.D., Innovation Lead - Surgical Care Alberta "The results from this real-world study will be used to quantify the impact of adopting ClarityDX Prostate into the Alberta and Canadian healthcare systems using in system, on system, for systems science." About ClarityDX Prostate ® and How to Order the Test ClarityDX Prostate uses biological data, clinical information, and AI-powered learning models to generate a risk score for aggressive prostate cancer, marking a significant advancement in prostate cancer screening. It provides critical support to men and their healthcare providers in making more informed decisions about whether to proceed with a biopsy following a high prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test result or an abnormal digital rectal exam (DRE).
Calgary Herald
18-06-2025
- Health
- Calgary Herald
Alberta to move to hospital-based leadership structure and eliminated AHS zones in latest health care restructuring
Alberta's refocusing of the health-care system continues with new plans to eliminate the 'bureaucratic vortex' which it says is hindering patient care. Article content In a video posted to X on Tuesday, Premier Danielle Smith announced the government's latest plans in the health-care reshuffling, which includes eliminating all five Alberta Health Services (AHS) zones and moving to a 'hospital-based leadership structure.' Article content Article content Article content 'This is what the current structure has created — distance from the problem and delays in the solution. It's costing us time. It's costing patients time, and it's costing Albertans the care they deserve,' Smith said. Article content Article content 'We're moving away from a heavy corporate administrative structure with more local decision making through hospital-based leadership.' Article content Under the new changes, hospitals will each have different leadership teams responsible for hiring, managing resources and troubleshooting. Smith said sites will be able to direct funding as they see fit to areas within the facilities with the most need. Article content The change would include eliminating all five AHS health zones and acute-care sites will be integrated into seven regional corridors which will have to report to Acute Care Alberta. According to a Tuesday press release, the sites will operate under the new leadership model and site operations will be managed by AHS through a hospital-based management framework. Article content Article content In a statement to Postmedia from the Ministry of Hospitals and Surgical Health Services, it said moving away from 'zone-based leadership' is expected to streamline decision-making and improve efficacy. Article content Article content 'AHS health zones are being replaced with health corridors to support an evidence-based approach to planning services, workforce, and infrastructure across Alberta's four new provincial health agencies,' the statement said. Article content 'These regional corridors reflect where Albertans access care and are informed by data on travel patterns, service utilization, and public feedback gathered during health-care refocusing engagement sessions. This new structure will help identify gaps in the health-care system and guide future investments in both operations and capital projects.' Article content The changes will be fully implemented by summer 2026, according to the province. The Ministry of Hospital and Surgical Health Services, AHS and Acute Care Alberta will be designing and establishing a new leadership and management model with an interim model to be established by November 2025.
CBC
10-03-2025
- Health
- CBC
Alberta government moving EMS under new organization in health overhaul
Social Sharing As part of the provincial government's move to restructure the health-care system, changes are coming for EMS in Alberta. Emergency health services in the province — including ambulances and paramedic care — will be transferred from Alberta Health Services to a new organization that will become fully operational on April 1: Acute Care Alberta. "These changes will allow emergency health services to focus on improving efficiency, patient safety and response times in all parts of the province, while also being responsible for meeting performance targets and its own workforce development and well-being," said Health Minister Adriana LaGrange in her announcement Monday. So far, the province has established two provincial health agencies: Recovery Alberta and Primary Care Alberta. The last remaining organization, Assisted Living Alberta, will become a legal entity on April 1. As the organizations roll out, LaGrange said the government is creating a centralized shared services model that will be responsible for human resources and information technology services across the entire health-care system. In addition, the Alberta government has allocated $60 million over three years in its latest budget to its EMS vehicles capital program. The funding from that program is used to replace and upgrade old ambulances, vehicles and other equipment. "By strengthening the EMS system, we reduce strain on our hospitals. Fewer delays and transportation also means patients are getting to the right care faster," said LaGrange. In a statement, Mike Parker, president of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA), said EMS workers need additional backup more than they need new equipment. "No one calling 911 is worried about whether it's EMS or AHS or Acute Care. They're worried about who is arriving and how long it's going to take," said Parker. Dr. Paul Parks, an emergency physician and past president of the Alberta Medical Association, agrees that more staff is needed — not just with EMS, but across the entire health system. He said if the intention of this move is to improve integration of the system, then he wants to see Acute Care Alberta operating immediately. "If they're just shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, that's not a good thing. The ship is still going down," said Parks. "If they're going to move the emergency health services into a new agency and allow it to co-ordinate better so it can plan workforce, it can plan how many ambulances we need and it can co-ordinate with Covenant Health and with Alberta Health Services, then that would be a better thing. But we need to do that ASAP." LaGrange said she's expecting to receive a followup report with recommendations to improve EMS by the end of March. The first report, released in 2023, recommended stepping toward privatization, which received pushback from unions like the HSAA.
