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Skinopathy HealthTech App focused on Skin Cancer

Canadian healthcare tech gets a shot in the arm; featuring Aurora-based Skinopathy

While it’s typically Canadian to not toot our own horn, the country is packed with health-care companies — big and small — with smart solutions to help us live healthier lives. By leveraging technology, including AI, we’re able to better access (and understand) our medical scans, keep a digital eye on our aging loved ones living alone at home, use our smartphone’s camera to detect skin cancer and access trustworthy medical videos rather than Googling symptoms across random sites (and panicking at the misdiagnosis).
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Skinopathy HealthTech App focused on Skin Cancer

At last week’s Collision Conference in Toronto, Skinopathy — a York Region-based company, headquartered just north of Toronto — CEO Keith Loo explained the AI works accurately for those with darker skin, which can be harder to detect with the naked eye, and thus a potentially dangerous condition could go undiagnosed until it’s at a later stage.

Full Article: nationalpost.com