Company Description

Tele-Monitoring Inc. (HALO) is a Toronto based and has its headquarters in the MaRS Discovery District.

HALO was originally invented and developed within University Health Network to solve a growing and costly challenge of ensuring continuous observation of the hospital network’s most acutely ill patients. A nurse practitioner (HALO’s Co-founder and COO) and thoracic surgeon (HALO’s CMO) invented and proliferated HALO across the network in response to this challenge. Today, HALO is deployed across 60 in-patient units at UHN and is used on 50% of all patients requiring continuous observation.

The HALO Total Solution comprises of (1) a bedside device placed in the patient’s room, (2) purpose-built software and and (3) a workforce of 25 'virtual safety observers'. From our patient observation centre in Toronto, HALO’s virtual observer monitors 6-12 patients at once for at-risk behaviours.

HALO is now trusted by Canada’s largest...