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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 .

It’s not only media who are paying attention to Infonaut — IDC, the largest IT market research firm in the world, has just named Infonaut to their list of IDC’s 10 Canadian Healthcare Solutions to Watch .

IDC’s analysts evaluate over a thousand companies, against criteria designed to determine which are the most likely to significantly impact the information communications technology (ICT) market. Companies are rigorously assessed on their strategy, their partners, customers, channels-to-market, the competitive landscape and more.

Infonaut is proud to be selected as one of IDC’s 10-to-Watch. We intend to prove them right.

Infonaut CEO Niall Wallace will be on Business News Network’s SqueezePlay tonight at 5:40pm. Be sure to check him out!

Report on Business features a profile of Infonaut this week, and the relevance of our Infection Watch Live solution to the H1N1 outbreak:

In 1854, Dr. John Snow plotted cholera cases on a map of London, England, to find the source of a serious outbreak that was killing hundreds of people. It became apparent that the biggest clusters of the disease were near a public water pump on Broad Street, and Dr. Snow was able to stop the spread by shutting down that source.

Fast-forward one-and-a-half centuries to Toronto, where a small firm is using 21st-century software to create maps with similar goals — the containment of disease — by showing infection patterns that can be understood at a glance.