Health Canada licenses Rho as a Class II medical device
Ottawa. Health Canada issued medical device licence 107916 for Rho, 16 Bit's opportunistic screen for low bone mineral density from standard X-rays, allowing its sale and clinical use in Canada.
Rho analyzes frontal X-rays of the chest, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, pelvis, hand or wrist, and knee taken for other reasons in patients aged 50 and older, and sends a report to PACS when a patient is likely to have low bone mineral density. The licence followed a proof-of-concept study with the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study and a development program supported by INOVAIT.
Canada was Rho’s first market. Deployments in community imaging and hospitals followed in 2023.