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Ventripoint Partners with First Light Health to Bring AI-Powered Cardiac Diagnostics to Indigenous and Remote Communities
(TheNewswire) Landmark partnership deploys hub-and-spoke model to close the cardiac care gap ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Ventripoint Partners with First Light Health to Bring AI-Powered Cardiac Diagnostics to Indigenous and Remote Communities\n(TheNewswire)\n\n\nLandmark partnership deploys\nhub-and-spoke model to close the cardiac care gap for Indigenous and\nunderserved populations in British Columbia — with national and\nglobal expansion planned.\n\n\nToronto, Ontario – TheNewswire - March 17, 2026 -\nVentripoint Diagnostics Ltd. (\"Ventripoint\",\n“VPT” or the \"Company\"), (TSXV:VPT; OTC:VPTDF) a leader\nin AI-assisted cardiac imaging, today announced a partnership with\nFirst Light Health (“FLH”) to extend life-saving heart diagnostics\nto Indigenous and remote communities that have long faced barriers to\nspecialist cardiac care. The collaboration marks a pivotal milestone\nin Ventripoint’s mission to make advanced, accurate cardiac imaging\nuniversally accessible - regardless of geography.\n\n\nThe partnership operates on a “hub-and-spoke”\nmodel: a central hub with advanced cardiac capabilities supports a\nnetwork of connected sites in smaller, remote, and Indigenous\ncommunities. Using Ventripoint’s VMS+™ system, local healthcare\nproviders can capture and enhance ultrasound scans on-site, then\ntransmit them digitally to hub specialists for rapid interpretation\nand consultation - eliminating the need for patients to travel\nhundreds of kilometres for basic cardiac assessments.\n\n\nFLH will be a key delivery partner within this\nexpanding network, anchored by operations in Vancouver. From there,\nFLH will extend services to remote communities across British\nColumbia, Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba, and New Brunswick. The impact of\nthe model is straightforward: Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients\nalike receive advanced cardiac imaging in their own communities -\nwithout long-distance travel, prohibitive costs, or months-long wait\ntimes. For communities where cardiovascular disease disproportionately\naffects outcomes, timely access to accurate diagnostics can be the\ndifference between early intervention and preventable harm.\n\n\nCentral to this model is Ventripoint’s VMS+™\nsystem, which achieves MRI-level cardiac measurement accuracy by\nconverting standard 2D echocardiograms into precise 3D volumetric\nimages - at a fraction of the cost and t...