
Healthcare to Homecare
Using advanced devices, wearables, and data to help assess, prevent and treat causes of frailty amongst seniors.
Project Overview
Updated March 31, 2023.
The Problem
More than 1.5 million Canadians are living with frailty, with that number expected to grow by 33 per cent over the next five years.
As older patients grow increasingly frail, they are unable to handle many daily tasks, leading to a need for elevated care, admission to long-term care homes or hospitalization. The centralization of healthcare delivery within acute care facilities is increasingly costly, amounting to $125B in Canada.
In response, digital health company XCO is partnering with the Ontario Brain Institute, the University of Victoria and other diverse organizations from across Canada on the Healthcare to Homecare project. The team is developing a frailty care system (FCS) to help frail individuals remain safely in their homes and provide them with essential support.
How We Are Solving It
The Result
Read our impact story on Healthcare to Homecare here
Project Lead
Project Partners
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“Partnership with the Digital Technology Supercluster has allowed XCO to navigate the complexity of the healthcare market and to progress the commercialization of our digital technologies into a comprehensive solution to transform how doctors and physical therapists deliver precise and personalized care. As a consortium of Canadian SMEs, it would have been extremely difficult to have achieved these big objectives without the support of the Digital Technology Supercluster.”