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At our annual Peerscale CEO retreat this past June; we had one keynote speaker whose talk I continue to reflect. Shawn Kanungo, spoke to us on the disruption that has become so evident in our world – his talk was titled “0 to 100 Digital Transformation”.

 

Southwestern Ontario’s regional health care administrator says a mobile app that connects nurses with in-home personal support workers in real time has cut emergency room visits by half – and the agency is looking for other patient populations to use the software.

New data from the South West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) – the provincial super-agency that allocates health care dollars in much of Southwestern Ontario from Lake Erie to Tobermory – said the iPhone app has reduced emergency room visits by 50 per cent and hospital re-admission rates by 42 per cent among home care patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Recently I was asked to participate on a leadership panel at the monthly meeting of the West Toronto chapter of the Human Resources Professionals Association.

The panel discussion followed dinner and a keynote from Lisa Mitchell, Principal of Green Apple Consulting: "HR as Coach: Influencing in a Sea of Change" and hosted by the Weston Golf & Country Club.

We were in a celebratory mood this morning as we gathered for our second last Investor Meeting of 2018. The snow and cold temperatures certainly set the tone for the upcoming holiday season. But so does the performance of our members' portfolio companies. Notably, last week VanRX was listed #1 on the 2018 Deloitte Canadian Technology Fast 50 list. We also recapped an active year of investing, with more than $3.7 million invested in 7 companies, and a few financings still left to close before the end of the year.

 

 

VANCOUVER, CANADA — November 15, 2018 — Deloitte, an international financial advisory firm, has named Vanrx Pharmasystems as the fastest growing technology company in Canada on its 2018 Technology Fast 50™ list.

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