Alberta Cancer Board
Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, the Alberta Cancer Board coordinates cancer research prevention and treatment with nine Regional Health Authorities, two cancer treatment facilities, four associate cancer centres and 11 community cancer centres across the province. Lacking a centralized, secure location to retrieve information, and collaborate on documents, the Board saw a decrease in information utilization among employees. To provide doctors and researchers with easy access to information they can manipulate, examine and share, the Board decided to implement Microsoft Office System software.
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alberta wellnet
alberta wellnet in collaboration with Microsoft Canada Co. adopted an application service provider-based model for the delivery of business and clinical applications, including electronic clinical charting, billing and scheduling software and training. By removing technological barriers in healthcare, the solution enables physicians to do what they do best - provide patient care. By building its knowledge management solution on the Microsoft software platform, alberta wellnet is on its way to fulfilling its mission: to enable better decisions using integrated system-wide health information to improve the health of Albertans and the management of the health system.
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Fraser Health Authority
The Fraser Health Authority (FHA) was created in 2001 through the merger of three healthcare organizations. With three times as many IT departments and managers, the development of clear project initiation processes for new information management projects became critical. Together with the Habañero Consulting Group, FHA is developing an Information Management Project Proposal Solution using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 electronic forms and a Windows SharePoint Services site to administer each new proposal.
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Interior Health Authority
Headquartered out of Kelowna, British Columbia, Interior Health Authority is a central healthcare administration. It employs close to 17,000 nurses and health care staff, integrated with 1,200 physicians many of whom work remotely in the field. The organization was struggling with the poor performance and heavy support requirements of its existing remote access system and decided to create a new remote access system based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system.
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Isotechnika Inc.
Edmonton-based Isotechnika Inc. is an international biopharmaceutical company focused on developing organ transplant anti-rejection drugs and auto-immune system disease treatments. The organization wanted to improve its approval process by automating its paper-based document management system and decided to introduce a solution based on Microsoft® Office System and Windows Server System™ integrated server software. The document management system has helped the organization improve access to information for its staff, reduce the amount of time spent on data entry and administrative tasks and cut down time spent on preparing for FDA audits.
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Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (CHUQ)
Le Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) was formed after the merger of main hospitals in Quebec. To improve IT security throughout the organization and reduce the complexity, the CHUQ decided to upgrade from its existing Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system platform to Windows Server 2003 operating system. The organization is now able to consolidate servers and reduce hardware by 20 per cent.
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Niagara Health System
The Niagara Health System, a faced the momentous task of implementing a common operating system across all of its facilities. After looking at several competitive solutions, the company chose Microsoft Windows Server System for its intuitive functionality, range of integrated applications, and cost effectiveness.
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Novopharm Limited
Novopharm Limited's senior executives, sales managers and sales representatives were spending an inordinate amount of time querying a multitude of backend systems to gain a deeper understanding of customers and products. Thanks to a business intelligence solution based on Microsoft software technology, Novopharm is now approaching customers in a much more educated fashion, developing new selling strategies, and increasing market share along the way.
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Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres (NSHSC) provides speech-language and hearing services to residents of Nova Scotia. Working in partnership with its clients and community groups, NSHSC is committed to providing effective, efficient, comprehensive and quality speech/language and hearing services that encompass hearing loss prevention, as well as the promotion, identification, intervention and education of hearing and speech therapy issues.
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Purdue
Within the pharmaceutical industry, Purdue Pharma is leading the battle against the inadequate treatment of pain by developing sustained-release medications to manage pain and provide meaningful benefits for patients. Within the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, the ability to track business indicators, sales data and market trends was critical to Purdue's success.
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Purkinje
To meet its customers' demanding data management requirements, Purkinje selected Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as the standard database platform to support its applications. SQL Server brings a number of benefits such as reliable and more secure access to patient information; significant time and cost- savings on database maintenance; and scalability to meet future data requirements. Healthcare organizations are able to operate more efficiently and healthcare professionals can focus more on patient care and less on administrative tasks.
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Retirement Concepts
Vancouver-based Retirement Concepts provides housing, care, respite services and adult day centres for senior citizens. With the segment of Canadians over the age of 65 rapidly growing, Retirement Concepts recognized it needed an IT environment that could support current needs and expand with the business. Working with Microsoft business partner and managed service provider Dyrand Systems, Retirement Concepts upgraded its desktop environments from a mix of Windows® 95, Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000 to Windows® XP with Security Pack 2 (SP2), to increase the stability and reliability of its IT systems.
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The Credit Valley Hospital
The Credit Valley Hospital decided to upgrade its desktop operating systems to assist in the management and performance of 1,069 personal computers across the hospital campus. Focused on creating a reliable, more secure and cost-effective computing environment, the hospital decided that Windows XP best met the organization's technical, practical and financial needs. The move to Windows XP made Credit Valley Hospital staff more efficient and productive, by creating a stronger computing environment.
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The Credit Valley Hospital
The Credit Valley Hospital is a modern, dynamic community hospital providing leadership in the delivery of health care services to the people of Mississauga, Ontario and the surrounding region. The hospital stores medical data in a back-end ERP system called MEDITECH, and pushes data to a variety of front-end applications used by medical and support staff.
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The Ottawa Hospital
The paper-based system used by the Ottawa Hospital’s gynecology- oncology team was preventing them from looking at patients from a broad spectrum. With the help of Systemagic, they solved this problem by building a pilot project called the Gynecology-Oncology Services Ovarian Cancer System (GOSOCS) with Microsoft®.NET connection software, Visual Studio®.NET development system and Windows Server™ 2003 operating system. The system assists doctors and researchers working to find a cure and improve treatment for one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in Canadian women.
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Therapy Partners Inc.
Therapy Partners Inc. (TPI) provides more than 38,000 therapy visits each year, delivering a variety of community therapy services from physiotherapy to dietetics to speech-language pathology. Prior to engaging MedShare, client referrals were handled using a paper-based process that was labour intensive and did not provide remote therapists with timely information. Microsoft Certified Partner MedShare, facilitated a discovery process to help TPI executives develop more efficient processes and procedures that can be accessed through a portal, and applied to TPI’s unique business challenges.
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