About Tactile Health
An artificial intelligence and medical device company, focused on pain and touch diagnostics. Developers of “the woodpecker” a new programmable robotic device for testing pain and tactile disorders.
OUR MISSION: Our mission is to be the leader in providing diagnostic and monitoring products and services for Fibromyalgia and tactile sensation disorders. We believe that our research team has made a breakthrough in Fibromyalgia diagnosis by its application of machine learning/artificial intelligence techniques. This has enabled us to extract meaningful and important brain signals for pain that were hitherto impossible to find.
OUR VISION: Our vision is to leverage our understanding of the electrical activity of the brain and translate it into a full range of diagnostics and monitoring products and services for Fibromyalgia and Neuropathy.
OUR GOALS: Our main goal is to improve the ease, accuracy and speed of diagnosis, and in so doing to improve the clinical outcomes for Fibromyalgia and Neuropathy patients.
Key People
Dr. Mark Doidge, MD, Founder and CEO
Dr. Doidge is a medical doctor based in Toronto, Ontario. He is a former National Practice of Excellence award winner for physicians in Canada, given in recognition for starting an international relief organization: Canadian Physicians for Aid Relief. This organization brought assistance to 2.5 million people in 7 countries during his tenure. His many years of front line experience with patients convinced him of the necessity to design a new product that was affordable, non-invasive, and could objectively measure brain activity.
Mr. Mario Garingo, MA.Sc. – Lead Researcher and Programmer
Mr. Garingo is an electrical engineer with an BEng in Electrical Engineering and is working towards his Masters of Science degree from Ryerson University, for Biomedical Signal Processing. He is the lead developer for the Audio-Visual Project and The Tactile Health data Acquisition and Reporting Software.