Sentinelle's Technology Helps Position KGH as the Eastern Ontario Hub for MR-Guided Breast Biopsy
Dr. Morris (Mickey) Milner, President and CEO of The Health Technology Exchange (HTX), announced the successful adoption of Sentinelle Medical's new breast imaging system by Kingston General Hospital (KGH), through the HTX's Health Technology Assessment and Implementation Program (HTAIP), a program funded by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. This program supports the uptake of innovative medical technologies in Ontario through partnering companies with local hospitals. Program funding directly supports the assessment and implementation of a novel medical technology in an Ontario hospital.
"Ontario has been proud to watch Sentinelle Medical - a Premier's Innovation Award winner - thrive and grow from 25 to more than 100 employees in just two years," said Minister of Research and Innovation John Milloy. "Now, the validation that Kingston General Hospital will provide by adopting Sentinelle's innovative imaging system will help open new doors for the company while bringing leading-edge medical care to the region. Ontario is pleased to support this success by funding programs like the one provided by HTX."
"The program has provided Kingston General Hospital with access to a leading-edge imaging technology at a low cost." Director of Imaging at KGH, Karen Pearson further states, "Without programs like this, and with the budget constraints hospitals face, there is a good chance we would not have been able to get our hands on this new technology and assess its implementation in our hospital."
Sentinelle's new breast imaging system, the Vanguard(R) System for Siemens' magnetic resonance (MR) units, allows a cancer clinic to use innovative MR imaging technology to do breast scans, and to simultaneously guide and do breast biopsies. This is a new approach to diagnose and manage breast cancer.