HEALTH SOLUTIONS NETWORK
Over forty years, a network of Canadian companies has developed that provide health software products and services across Canada and internationally. Also there are some international commercial companies and open source developers that have a presence in the develping countries. For more information please visit the web sites of each of the following selected companies to learn more about their products and services, and their success in meeting the health challenges in the developing world. As a disclaimer, CHS Canada has no particulair interest in any of these companies, but mentions them here for educational purposes only.
ABELSoft Corporation, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
ABELSoft is a developer of software and associated services to the healthcare profession in the Microsoft environment. For over 30 years, they have provided clinical/practice management systems to a customer base of over 10,000 dentists and physicians in Canada, the USA and the Caribbean.
For more information please visit www.abelsoft.com
ABS System Consultants, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ABS System Consultants provide Metrics3D a business intelligence software solution for health care. It is currently implemented in Trinidad and Tobago.
For more informarion please visit www.Metrics3D.com
ACCESSTEC Incorporated, Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada
Accesstec is the developer and supporter of the Belize Health Information System that started in 1999.
For more information please vist www.accesstec.ca
Care2X
Care2X is an open-source systems that integrates data, functions and workflows in hospitals and general practice. Since 2002, Care2X has been implemented in 20 countries around the world.
Fore more information please visit www.care2x.org
GE Healthcare, USA
General Electric (GE) Healthcare provides Centricity a set of administration, clinical and finanical soultions for health care.
For more information please visit www.gehealthcare.com
Global Health Information Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
GHIS provides project mamagement, consulting and ICT integration services to the developing world resulting in deployment of a holistic, interoperate e-health solutions. Trinidad and Tobago has deplyed their solution to track HIV/AIDs.
For more information please visit www.globalhis.com
HERON Technology Corporation, Markham, Ontario, Canada
Starting in 1985, Heron is a developer of healthcare application software modules that operate primarily in an open systems environment. For the last 10 years, they have installed the Patient Administration System in Jamaica, Montserrat and Dominica.
For more information please visit www.herontech.com
InterSystems, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Since 1978, InterSystems provides software tools to help IT professionals to create, deploy, run, and integrate healthcare applications more rapidly. They have offices in 21 countries around the world.
For more information please visit www.intersystems.com
Jembi Health Systems, South Africa
Jembi is a new not for profit organization focused on the furthering of ICT based healthcare solutions for the developing world. They strive to live up to a social responsibility charter and uplift the lives of those around them with the knowledge and skills they have been given.
For more information please visit www.jembi.org
MED2020 Health Care Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
MED2020 is a developer of health/medical records application software in the Microsoft environment. For the last 20 years, they have installed their WinRecs in nearly half the acute hospitals in Canada and Mexico.
For more information please visit www.med2020.ca
Meditech, Boston, Mass, USA
Meditech is the developer of the complete Hospital Information System and used by a majority of Canadian hospitals. They have been in business 40 years and have installations in Africa and some Spanish speaking countries.
For more information please visit www.meditech.com
OpenMRS, USA
Open Medical Records System (MRS) is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system platform. Since 2004, OpenMRS has been developed and implemented in the developing world where AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are afflicting the lives of millions.
For more information please visit www.openmrs.org
Siemans, Germany
Siemans provides Soarian MedSuite, an integrated health information solution that covers administrative, clinical and financial process from the beginning to the end. Recently 37 hospitals and 300 clinics in South Africa selected Siemans.
For more information please visit www.medical.siemans.com
VISTA, USA
The VISTA system was originally developed in 1982 by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for use in its veterans hospitals, outpatient clinics, and nursing homes. It is one of the first open-source electronic health records systems to be implemented internationally.
For more information please visit www.worldvista.org
VOXIVA, Washington, USA
Voxiva provides a suite of interactive mobile health information services designed to support and engage people in managing their health and living healthier lives. They have offices in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tanzania.
For more information please visit www.voxiva.net