Bringing intelligent healthtech everywhere
Epionica is a Canadian healthtech company developing medical solutions that combine breakthrough innovations, advanced interfaces, and versatile ergonomics to improve the quality of healthcare and experiences for patients, health professionals, and caregivers in any kind of environment.
About Epionica
In the spring of 2020, the shortage of ventilators caused by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic prompted people from different horizons to look at the ventilator market to see if they could find solutions. Ryan Janzen, a Canadian inventor, was one of them. In two weeks time, he and his team of experts in electronics, mechatronics and vehicle air supply systems, built a first functional prototype of a transport ventilator.
Humanity will have to face other health crisis, the WHO is already preparing for future pandemics. Extreme weather events due to Climate Change will impact crucial transportation and communication links. The need for mobile intensive care units will increase, and they will need to be equipped with best in class material.
Epionica’s mission is to enable health professionals to provide the highest level of care everywhere by developing transportable medical devices which integrate the best technologies as well as breakthrough innovations.
Who is Epione?
Epione was the wife of Asclepius, god of medicine in Greek mythology. Her name derives from the term epios which means soothing. She had five daughters, Hygieia (Good Health), Panacaea (Universal remedy), Iaso (Healing), Aglaea (Glow of good health), and Aceso (Curing).
Versatile crisis ventilator
Transportable
Light, compact, robust, rapidly deployable
Versatile
Designed for the field, ambulatory services, repatriations, hospital transfers
Air delivery
Invasive and non-invasive ventilation
Mobile air supply
Blower and compatible with oxygen tank or hospital air input
Modes
Controlled, supported and combined ventilation (pressure and volume)
Armies
Specific filters and functionalities (CBRN defense)
Veillance Flux
Signal processing used to map and visualize medical sensors data
Machine learning
Highlights potential conditions and allows advanced interpretation
Composite Dynamic Range (CDR)
Non-invasive acoustic sensing to detect issues in a patient’s breath
Why are we different?
Our ventilation solution uses innovations in the areas of physics, signal processing, and new fields of research like extramissive sensing / veillance flux and extreme dynamic-range sensing (CDR). Those new technologies enable doctors with enhanced diagnosis and monitoring and are made available in a compact mobile ventilator that is fully ICU-featured and can treat patients everywhere, including in remote environments.
Our ventilator has also been designed based on the user experience and field observation to provide innovation of use with a novel form factor, a user friendly interface and extra features to operate in the most extreme conditions.
Research papers
Read more about our innovations.
Extreme-Dynamic-Range Sensing: Real-Time Adaptation to Extreme Signals
Veillance Flux, Vixels, Veillons: An information-bearing extramissive formulation of sensing, to measure surveillance and sousveillance
The Physical-Fourier-Amplitude Domain, and Application to Sensing Sensors
Real-time hybrid machine learning
2027
$10.3BUSD
Estimated global ventilator market size.
10%, the market share of versatile crisis ventilators
Today the ventilator market consists of roughly 60% ICU ventilators and 40% transport ventilators. At the end of this decade, with the growing need for fully featured mobile ICUs, our model forecasts a 10% market share for the next-generation of ventilators, the versatile crisis ventilators.
April 2020
First functional prototype built
July 2020
Secured funding for CA$400,000 from IRAP
April 2021
Formalization of partnership with Scaleo Medical
July 2021
Evolution of design for military medical applications
April 2022
Incorporation of Epionica Inc.
Sustainability
Leadership team
Sebastien Gendron
Chairman & CEO
20 years of industrial experience
Master’s degree in aerospace engineering
Ryan Janzen
Creator of TransPod
ultra-high-speed system
Inventor of Epionica ventilator
Ph.D. from the University of Toronto
Our advisors
Philippe Burgard
CEO
John Walmsley
Medical advisors
"As a former Paris firefighter, I have used transitional ventilators in ambulances on several occasions. There is still room for improvement over ICU ventilators. For example, it is difficult for us to ventilate at high flow with our current systems or to aerosolize while ventilating."
Anne-Lise Souberbielle
Former Paris firefighter, Emergency physician (Washington D.C., USA)
“In our lab at St. Micheal’s Hospital we study the interaction between the patient and the ventilator to find the best way to optimize mechanical ventilation at all stages. Mechanical ventilation still present clinical challenges and even though ventilators have improved a lot, new technologies are always interesting to explore.”
Keenan research center for biomedical research,
Critical care Department, Unity Health Toronto (Canada)
Partners
