With Novel H1N1 Influenza A (human swine flu), spreading from country to country, and everyone anxiously seeking information, Infonaut's disease surveillance solutions are quickly gaining the attention of the public and public health professionals. On May 5th, the Globe & Mail's Report on Business featured a profile of Infonaut's business model. Asking how relevant solutions can be brought to market during difficult times. The May issue of "Canada Watch", the New York Consulate General's newsletter, featured a profile of our solutions saying: "In 2009, it's Infonaut's turn". This month also marked CEO Niall Wallace's television debut, when he appeared on Business News Network's SqueezePlay, discussing the lessons learned from SARS and how we're applying them in our solutions.

Interest in our Infonaut Live solutions, and how they enable infectious disease prevention, is growing. Novel H1N1 Influenza A (human swine flu) has fixed our global attention on how prepared we are to deal with disease outbreaks -- seasonal or extraordinary. As global health leaders search for ways to understand the local, national and international spread of disease, Infonaut is here with solutions that scale from infection monitoring and control within a hospital, to city-wide, country-wide and beyond.

In southeastern Ontario, and in collaboration with our partners at Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington Public Health, our Infection Watch Live solution is already keeping the public informed on respiratory and gastrointestinal outbreaks in their community. Empowering people with the knowledge of what's going on now, what's normal, and what's new.

Our made-in-Canada success story is moving ahead, by giving the public the information they want and need to keep themselves safe.

An animated overview of how Infection Watch Live works can now be viewed on our website. Learn more about all our products by visiting our software demo pages here. Be in touch with us by clicking here.

If you missed Niall on BNN, you can still watch the full interview here.To read the Globe & Mail's profile of Infonaut, click here. To read the Canada Watch article, click here.

HIMSS '09 Alongside our longtime partner ESRI, Infonaut attended the 2009 HIMSS conference in Chicago (April 4th-8th). Both CEO Niall Wallace and our new Director of Business Development Sandra Linklater were at HIMSS to launch our Hospital Watch Live application -- discussed in detail in our January newsletter -- to the US hospital IT market. We were excited to have the opportunity to present an application so targeted and timely given the hot button issue of hospital superbugs. People are becoming aware that more lives are lost to hospital acquired infections (HAIs) than car accidents, breast cancer and HIV combined. Over 2 million patients are affected and 100,000 people a year die from HAIs such as MRSA, at a combined medical cost far exceeding $50 billion (CDC.gov).

Hospital Watch Live (HWL) is a globally relevant solution that provides real-time information sharing and outbreak management so crucial in a hospital setting where staff need the most relevant information possible to make important decisions to protect patients and save lives.

An animated overview of how Hospital Watch Live works can now be viewed on our website.

Infonaut is staffed with tech junkies who all love to grab a shiny new piece of internet, so we're available online in many new mediums:

• Check out our new blog "Infonaut's Infection Watch" where we follow the latest news stories in infection control, provide a bit of commentary, and keep you up to speed on our latest products, as well as Niall's on-camera (and possibly off-camera) adventures.
  
• Follow us on Twitter @infonautlive
• Join our LinkedIn Group
• Become a fan of our Facebook page

Sandra comes to us from our partners at the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre (SSMIC) and has been working with Niall Wallace to advance the commercialization of our Infonaut Live suite of solutions. As Infonaut's Director of Business Development, Sandra is responsible for driving our sales and market development initiatives and building successful channel partnerships. She is experienced and accomplished in business development, with a results-driven attitude, and a proven track record in sales strategy and the successful marketing of technical solutions: building strong client relationships and consistently exceeding sales goals.

Sandra has been an integral part of several successful start-up initiatives throughout her career, as well as leading teams at heavy-hitters like Bell Canada. Her strong leadership capabilities spearheaded the sale, development and implementation of many "first-off" large and complex business solutions.

If there's an opportunity for collaboration you'd like to discuss with Infonaut, please contact Sandra directly at 705-987-3816, or by email at slinklater@infonaut.ca.

The latest addition to our development team is Jane Yu. Jane brings over ten years of software development expertise to Infonaut, with a particular specialty in Business Intelligence. Jane's extensive experience includes many years spent in China as a financial software developer at the China Construction Bank -- one of the "big four" banks in China, and by market capitalization, the fourth largest in the world. It's a pleasure to welcome Jane to Infonaut as we continue to expand and refine our software solutions.

Infonaut's map-based business intelligence 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.

The Biotechnology Inititative (TBI) Breakfast
The Digital Hospital, The Digital Patient
May 21, 2009
Toronto, ON - [web]

e-Health Conference 2009
Leadership in Action
May 31 - June 3, 2009
Québec City, ON - [web]

GIAC Leaders Forum
June 16 - 17, 2009
Ottawa, ON - [web]

"In February, scientists at the International Meeting on Emerging Disease and Surveillance in Vienna, Austria, said so much attention had been focused on H5N1 that the medical and scientific community risked missing the start of an outbreak caused by another strain.

Prof Thomas Monath from Harvard University said that another strain could trigger a pandemic and then 'we would be screwed'."

Read this and other stories on the Infection Watch Blog.

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