Infonaut Inc. recognized as ESRI Canada’s New Business Partner of the Year for 2007!

ESRI, developers of the world's leading geographic information system (GIS) technology, will award Infonaut as 2007 Canadian New Business Partner of the Year on March 18th at their Worldwide Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs, California.

This event is dedicated to over 2000 ESRI business partners and the many international distributors and hardware vendors who want to expand their businesses and align their efforts with ESRI programs.

Infonaut is being recognized at this global event for it’s critical role in developing cutting edge web-based GIS solutions for healthcare planning and emergency response, as well as the introduction of new world-class concepts in pandemic disease planning, monitoring and outbreak management.

Since 2003, Toronto-based Infonaut has been helping governments and health-related organizations make sense of previously overwhelming amounts of information – data that is vital to protecting people’s health and saving lives.

Their easy-to-use, map-based software and decision-making support services help ensure sound decisions are made by those trusted with keeping us safe.

Infonaut was recently invited to present at the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO) Public Health Preparedness Summit, in Washington DC.

At the GIS Ideas Exchange, co-sponsored by Infonaut and ESRI, Infonaut CEO Niall Wallace delivered his presentation to a packed house of U.S. public health professionals, including representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), FEMA, and local public health agencies from Alaska, to New York, to Hawaii.

Niall’s presentation on 'Post SARS in Ontario: A Geomatics Perspective' – where he discussed outcomes in Health System Transformation, Monitoring and Response, and Infonaut’s concept of Ubiquitous GIS was well received and furthered Infonaut’s growing network of business contacts and healthcare providers across North America. - [ Learn more ]

Infonaut’s commitment is to provide better access to health data for organizations across Canada and the United States. - [ Learn more ]

Postal Code Data Files – Did you know there are over 850,000 postal codes in Canada? Our lookup file allows you to map individual postal codes to various census areas, municipalities, health administration areas (e.g. LHINs and Public Health Units), and various other geographies. Updates are available on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual basis.

Infonaut Health – In addition to our full implementation for large organizations, we now offer a web based GIS health solution to smaller organizations on a subscription basis. Contact us to receive a guest logon to the health-mapping tool that made Infonaut ESRI Canada’s New Business Partner of the Year.

This month, Geocortex Internet Mapping News features a story on an Infonaut Health solution created for the Ontario Ministry of Health’s Public Health Division. - [ Download the PDF ]

Infonaut responded to the deadly SARS virus in Toronto by developing a web-based GIS tool - with a vision to enable staff to better understand and visualize the geographic factors that influence public health in Ontario.

‘Public Health WebGIS’ was first rolled out to a select group of users in 2004 and is fast becoming an important component of the decision-support strategy. This tool is now used in strategic planning, monitoring, and emergency response within Ontario’s Public Health Division. - [ Learn more ]

Next month, another Infonaut Health solution – the LHIN Health Atlas – will be featured in HealthlyGIS, an international health publication dedicated to mapping technology.