Improving patient care by putting medical imaging in the hands of clinicians worldwide
Timely access to medical imaging is an important part of delivering quality care. Clarius Mobile Health is on a mission to make medical imaging accessible everywhere by delivering high-performance, affordable and easy‑to‑use solutions with the power of artificial intelligence.
Based in British Columbia, Clarius was founded in 2014 by experienced innovators who developed the first PC‑based platform for ultrasound research and the first touchscreen ultrasound system with a simplified user interface.
How they’re changing the game
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Narration: Canadian businesses are the building blocks of our economy and communities across Canada. So how do we help them go further, faster?
[A number of purple hexagons, of all different sizes, appear on screen. The hexagons come together to form a map of Canada.]
Text on screen: Global Hypergrowth Project
Narration: The Global Hypergrowth Project is a scale-up initiative that’s going to take eight of Canada’s most promising home-grown companies and help put their global growth into hyperdrive, while also creating new and innovative pathways for other emerging Canadian companies.
[Larger, purple-outlined white hexagons appear and disappear, moving from left to right across the screen. Each time a hexagon appears, it contains a symbol, different from the last, representing a Canadian industry, such as pharmacare, healthcare, AI, and manufacturing.]
[The camera zooms out and purple hexagons now form a map of the world. Eight large hexagons appear on top of the map, each containing the logo of a Canadian company participating in the Global Hypergrowth Project: Clio, Ada, Duchesnay Pharmaceutical Group, AlayaCare, Lightspeed, CellCarta, Vive Crop Protection, and Clarius.]
Narration: Now let’s meet one of these game-changing Canadian businesses.
[A hexagon with the Clarius Mobile Health logo –three concentric semi-circles oriented like the letter “C” and mimicking sound waves – comes to the foreground, while all the other hexagons containing logos disappear.]
Narration: Timely access to medical imaging is an important part of delivering quality care.
[Aerial footage of a rural, seaside town with a rocky shoreline, a cluster of houses, small boats and docks along an inlet, and a lighthouse in the distance.]
Narration: Clarius Mobile Health is on a mission to make medical ultrasound imaging accessible everywhere by delivering high-performance, affordable and easy-to-use solutions with the power of artificial intelligence.
[A clinician is using a wireless, handheld scanner on the chest of a patient who is lying in a hospital bed. The clinician is holding a cell phone in their other hand as the real-time ultrasound data displays on the phone’s screen.]
[A clinician is using a wireless, handheld scanner on a patient’s abdomen, while viewing the real-time ultrasound data on a cell phone screen.]
Narration: We develop handheld ultrasound. This is our product actually. It’s small, it’s portable, it’s wireless, and it’s all powered by artificial intelligence…
Text on screen: Ohad Arazi, Board Observer and Strategic Advisor, Clarius Mobile Health
[Ohad Arazi appears on screen, holding up the Clarius mobile scanner in his hand. He is standing next to a floor-to-ceiling glass window. An office building and shrubbery are visible through the glass.]
Narration: So this really enables us to bring the power of medical imaging to many new care settings and put it in the hands of many more practitioners that may not have been trained as a doctor or a specialist.
[In a clinical setting, a clinician is using the Clarius handheld scanner on a child, while viewing real-time ultrasound data on the screen of a tablet held in their other hand.]
Text on screen: How does Clarius benefit Canada?
[A diverse group of people are seated in a large waiting room with floor-to-ceiling windows. Most of them are filling out paperwork or holding clipboards. One woman walks slowly across the room and sits down in a chair.]
[Ohad Arazi reappears on screen.]
Narration: I really feel we were made for Canada. If you think about the health care challenges of this country, a lot of it has to do with access to care, remote care.
Narration: And so we really allow us to democratize care, to make it much more accessible, make it much more available where you live in your community, and to avoid a lot of the travel that’s often required to come to major urban centers to receive medical imaging.
Text on screen: How can the Global Hypergrowth Project help?
Narration: Today we have the majority of our sales in North America and Western Europe. We see huge expansion opportunities in the Asia Pacific region, which is right on point with the Government of Canada strategy…
[A number of small purple hexagons make up a map of North America. We see movement across the continent in the form of animated blue swooshes. The camera zooms out, and we see the map expand to show the entire world, with bluel swooshes crossing over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.]
Narration: …and also just in terms of access to health care providers here in Canada, the visibility of our company through GHP is really opening a lot of doors for us to work with local providers.
[A clinician enters an exam room and speaks briefly with a waiting patient. Next, we see that the patient is lying down on the table, and the clinician examines him using a handheld mobile scanner while looking at the real-time data on her phone.]
[Ohad Arazi reappears on screen.]
Text on screen: Clarius
Enhancing patient care anywhere, with portable medical imaging
Narration: GHP is helping Clarius take their growth to the next level. Because when Canadian businesses like Clarius succeed, we all benefit.
[The hexagon with the Clarius Mobile Health logo –three concentric semi-circles oriented like the letter “C” and mimicking sound waves – appears on the right side of the screen over top of the map of Canada made up of small faded-purple hexagons.]
[An animated purple line appears, forming the outline of a maple leaf. Once the outline is complete, the maple leaf turns purple and zooms towards the screen until the entire screen is purple.]
Narration: Follow their journey at canada.ca/hypergrowth
Text on screen: canada.ca/hypergrowth
As pioneers in miniaturizing ultrasound, the company is creating high-definition, point-of-care wireless systems for clinicians to use in a broad range of specialities. This can help improve patient care, expand clinical services, and differentiate medical practices with real-time imaging.
With the introduction of our third-generation handheld ultrasound scanners, we took a big leap forward in our mission to enable medical imaging in every setting. By fusing innovations from the digital health and medical device domains, handheld ultrasound can play a tremendous role in transforming patient outcomes, decreasing healthcare costs, and enhancing collaboration.
– Ohad Arazi, President and CEO
Since Clarius began selling their ultrasound devices in 2016, more than 20,000 clinicians have used them for more than 3.8 million scans.