Infonaut, a Canadian leader in healthcare information services, is pleased to announce that they will be co-presenting with their Ministry of Health partners at the ESRI Regional User Conference in Toronto on Thursday, October 12, 2006

Niall Wallace, Infonaut’s CEO, will be providing a demonstration of the LHIN Health Atlas, a customized version of the Region Watch Live GIS application implemented by Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to provide better, more accessible and intelligible healthcare information to help support the implementation of the 14 new Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs).

More information on ESRI’s Toronto User Conference can be viewed at www.esricanada.com or by contacting Heather Milnes @ ESRI Canada – (416) 386 6492.

Infonaut is pleased to announce our partner, The Health Results Team for Information Management (HRT-IM) within the Ministry of Health, has won a Merit Award at Showcase Ontario 2006 for their Information Management Strategy. They are also eligible for a Diamond award at the presentation ceremony on September 26th.

HRT-IM leveraged leadership within the ministry and across the health system itself by building partnerships internally and externally – through pilot projects encouraging and supporting the implementation of elements of the IM strategy within individual health care organizations.

HRT-IM was recognized for their business-driven efforts and their ability to partner with numerous stakeholders across health to develop an Information Management Strategy. Focus was given to particular end-states/outcomes that mattered to stakeholders in the health system, including: producing better data, measuring performance to support accountability and quality improvement, and supporting evidence-based decisions.

As a HRT-IM partner, Infonaut played a key role in helping deliver on this strategy. Infonaut developed the LHIN Health Atlas, a web-based mapping application that brings a whole new decision-making ability to the coordination of health planning. This is becoming a key tool for the ministry in measuring performance to support accountability and quality improvement, and supporting evidence-based decisions.

For more information, please contact info@infonaut.ca or contact us at 416-602-6260.