Okaki Health Intelligence Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Calgary|Calgary, AB · grants and contributions register · Calgary Confederation

Okaki Health Intelligence Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 12 agreements; $2.0M value; 2 departments; 5 programs.

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12agreements
$2.0Mvalue
2departments
5programs

Largest agreements

Public Health Surveillance from Pharmacy Medication Sales$960Kvalue2022start2023end

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Rapid Response: Real-time Insights for Pandemic Decision Making Challenge. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in collaboration with Canada’s defence, security and public safety communities is looking for innovative epidemiological and healthcare solutions involving data gathering and data analytics technologies to support the early detection and community-based surveillance of outbreaks of contagious diseases. The goal is to provide actionable insights and to permit rapid decision-making with

NLP Engine for Gait, Balance and Cognitive Assessments$243Kvalue2023start2025end

OKAKI is developing a healthcare product - Gaitly - to use mobile device cameras and state of the art deep learning (vision/NLP) to administer gait, balance and cognitive assessments. These types of assessments are important to assess risk and monitor treatment/disease progression in many common conditions (e.g., falls, concussions, Parkinson's). Gaitly will disrupt the market, and become a new standard of practice, as it will enable any healthcare provider or consumer to administer, track and share more accurate and objective, evidence-based, normative assessments. All competing products t

PRescribing Outcomes Modeled through Intelligent Systems Engineering (PROMISE)$212Kvalue2021start2022end

Develop and test a machine learning model to predict the 30-day risk of hospitalization, emergency department visit (ED), or death after a person in Alberta receives an opioid or benzodiazepine prescription and develop/validate an end-to-end platform to simulate the use of this ML model as part of Alberta's prescription monitoring program for controlled drugs (Alberta TPP).

Syndromic Surveillance from Pharmacy Medication Sales$195Kvalue2021start2021end

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Rapid Response: Real-time Insights for Pandemic Decision Making Challenge. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in collaboration with Canada’s defence, security and public safety communities is looking for innovative epidemiological and healthcare solutions involving data gathering and data analytics technologies to support the early detection and community-based surveillance of outbreaks of contagious diseases. The goal is to provide actionable insights and to permit rapid decision-making with

Experimentation to optimize business processes in electronic health records or new digital health products.$105Kvalue2025start2026end

This project will test hypotheses and experiment with new mechanisms to design (or optimize) a repeatable and scalable business process, which may result in new business methods for electronic health records or new digital health products.

RetinalAI$98.0Kvalue2025start2026end

This project focuses on creating an advanced automated retinal image analysis platform for Canada’s healthcare system. Using cutting-edge deep learning techniques and multimodal large language models, the platform will analyze 3D OCT scans to detect retinal diseases and conditions. By incorporating a robust human-in-the-loop validation process, the system ensures highly accurate and reliable insights for clinicians. This innovation aims to reduce diagnostic delays, improve patient outcomes, and enhance the efficiency of retinal disease management in clinical practice.

Speech Driven Workflow for Immunization Services$50.0Kvalue2020start2021end

OKAKI is the developer of immunization software used by public health, pharmacy, occupational and other community immunizers. OKAKI is urgently enhancing its software products to improve the safety of mass immunization programs in the context of COVID19, in accordance with national guidelines. Features are being implemented to improve the speed and efficiency of services, reducing face time and contact with commonly touched surfaces. This project aims to develop an automated speech recognition system for immunization workflow, for hands free services. The models would need to be deployed on

COVID19 Immunization Services for Vulnerable Populations$40.0Kvalue2021start2021end

OKAKI is a public health services and health technology social enterprise. has partnered with a number of organizations to deliver COVID19 Immunization services, in a trusted setting, to vulnerable, hard to reach populations with significant barriers to accessing mainstream services and/or a history of systemic racism in the healthcare system. Services are delivered through established clinics and mobile outreach. Populations include Indigenous peoples, vulnerable newcomers (including sponsored refugees and refugee claimants), undocumented individuals, migrant workers and those at risk of hom

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Computer Vision and NLP Development for Measuring Gait, Balance, and Cognitive Assessments$30.0Kvalue2025start2025end

OKAKI is currently working with several clinical research laboratories to achieve Health Canada and FDA regulatory approval for Gaitly, a computer vision and NLP driven software-as-a-medical-device application. The project requires a graduate with skills related to computer vision, natural language processing, digital signals processing, and machine learning to assist the project manager and research laboratories to develop new and refine existing algorithms for measuring Gait, Balance, and Cognitive assessments. The expected outcomes for this project includes the development and publication o

Prescription Drug Claims Monitoring BI Solution$24.0Kvalue2019start2020end

The candidate will create an end-to-end analytic and reporting system for a health insurance customer's prescription drug claims. The project will involve learning of prescription drug subject matter, data cleaning and preparation, data integration of multiple data sets required for analysis, data modeling, definition of analytic dimensions and measures, development of visualizations and other analytic outputs, automating processes for daily data extracts, and ensuring complete documentation and ease of maintenance. The project will be carried out using Azure cloud services and Power BI.

Application Suite Platform Migration and Upgrade$20.0Kvalue2019start2019end

Migration and enhancement of existing plug-in based web applications to a thick-client platform while providing the same GUI behavior and look and feel as existing customer health applications.

Junior QA developer$20.0Kvalue2020start2021end

To be apart of a team to implement DevOps into the organization. A majority of the time will be spent testing business functionallity in a variety of applications and experimenting with different testing tools to automate UI testing for in three different platforms (WPF, HTML5, mobile).

Departments

National Defence2agreements$1.2Mvalue2programs
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and and Security

All grants from National Defence

National Research Council Canada10agreements$842Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20253agreements$233Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20231agreements$243Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20221agreements$960Kvalue1programs
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
20213agreements$447Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and and Security
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20202agreements$70.0Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
20192agreements$44.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.