Stopping the Spread of Infectious Diseases with Spatial Syndromic Surveillance
The national funding initiative, GeoConnections, has awarded federal sponsorship to Infonaut and our partners, recognizing our innovative investigative GIS concept, and supporting development of a web-based real-time GIS disease detection and outbreak response application. Working with Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health (KFL&A PH), Queen's University Public Health Informatics (QPHI), the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre (SSMIC) & ESRI Canada, Infonaut is advancing GIS systems towards applied disease surveillance (“syndromic surveillance”) for respiratory and gastrointestinal conditions. Syndromic surveillance targets these conditions because of their rapid transmission rate and high burden on community health services. Supported by data from seven area hospitals, the map-based surveillance and alert system being developed by Infonaut and KFL&A PH will use real-time anonymized respiratory and gastrointestinal patient information to improve response to disease outbreaks.
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Improving Patient Flow in the South East CCAC
The South East Community Care Access Centre (SE CCAC) - responsible for managing access to government-funded home, community services, and long-term care resources - has a systemic problem with patient flow, and recruited Infonaut to help solve it. More than 20% of all acute bed days in the SE CCAC are being used by Alternate Level of Care (ALC) patients. Acute care is one of the most expensive and resource intensive services in the healthcare system. However, an ALC patient doesn't need acute care, but remains in an acute bed because of circumstances preventing proper patient flow to other care sites, including the patient’s home, convalescent care, or long-term care facility. Leading Business Intelligence Suites Harmonized and GIS-Enhanced
Infonaut's dynamic geospatial interface and location-based business intelligence are now more widely available to healthcare performance managers following our integration with ABS System Consultants' leading performance management application Metrics3D. Through the SE CCAC, a strategic collaboration between Infonaut and ABS System Consultants has rapidly advanced both business intelligence tools, opening up Infonaut's GIS technology to ABS' extensive user base, and adding an in-demand GIS interface to ABS's comprehensive all-in-one performance suite. |
CCAC Community Health Atlas
Infonaut is pleased to announce the availability of the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) Health Atlas. A resource first made available to the LHINs in 2005, this location-based business intelligence tool is now available for CCACs, healthcare providers, and community groups. The CCAC Health Atlas brings together information from across the CCACs, LHINs, service providers, Ministry, Stats Can, and the private sector - and features both LHIN, CCAC, and customized performance management indicators and targets.
Deployed with an instant turnkey GIS infrastructure, bundled in a package which includes monthly data updates, the CCAC Health Atlas allows community health providers to leverage the power of GIS in all their performance management activities. For pricing and additional details on the CCAC Health Atlas, including how to obtain a copy for your CCAC, please contact Niall Wallace at nwallace@infonaut.ca. |
Toronto Office Hiring: VP Business Development
Infonaut's Toronto office is expanding, and we are currently seeking a Vice President of Business Development to help us develop and execute on our new business opportunities. The position requires that the candidate play a lead role at Infonaut in the formulation of in-house strategy, policy, and structure as they relate to business development. The successful candidate will also be involved in the planning and management of new Infonaut products. To apply, or for more information on this position, please contact us at careers@infonaut.ca. Infonaut Partners with Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation
A proudly Canadian company, Infonaut is expanding our presence in the capital region starting with membership in the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) - Ottawa's leading member-based economic development corporation. OCRI is focused on assisting local technology companies become competitive on a global scale. Infonaut's expanding Ottawa presence puts us in a position to take advantage of the many new opportunities that come with OCRI's close ties to venture capital funding and expertise in taking advantage of emerging opportunities and markets. OCRI's membership network represents every sector and OCRI drives partnerships that cut across all of their 625 (and growing) base of member companies. Infonaut's affiliation with OCRI and their Ottawa-area development initiatives opens up a wealth of opportunities for Infonaut within the local market, the federal government, grants and awards, and national economic development projects. |
Infonaut’s map-based solutions share critical, health-related information in a way that is easy-to-use, easy-to-implement, and cost-effective. Infonaut brings together the unique capabilities of Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis and presentation with health, census, and your organization's information. Thought leaders, system managers, practitioners, providers, and the public should see integrated healthcare from ‘10,000 feet’. For more information please visit us at www.infonaut.ca or call 416-607-6260. |
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| HIMSS Conference February 24-28, 2008 Orlando, FL From February 24th to 28th, Infonaut will be featured at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Orlando, Florida. As ESRI’s business partner of the year for 2007, Infonaut will be displaying at the ESRI booth, where we are launching the first version of a new hospital application.Healthcare Infrastructure Summit e-Health 2008: Extending the Reach Optimizing Multi-Agency Coordination in Disaster Planning for Hospitals |
| Greater Toronto's Language Quilt
As blogged by Sevaan Franks: I live in Toronto, one of the more multicultural cities in the world, so I found this map from the Toronto Star to be quite interesting. It shows what languages are dominantly spoken in what areas.
English is still, by far, the first language across Greater Toronto. But strip away that blanket of dominance and a colourful patchwork emerges, showing where newcomers from around the world choose to settle. The map shows the most prevalent mother tongue after English in more than 1,000 neighbourhoods across the GTA, as revealed by a Star analysis of 2006 census data. Read this and other stories on the Infonaut Blog. |
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