Company

xwaveEMR is one of many solutions and services developed by xwave Healthcare to help connect patients and providers across the continuum of care. One of the largest and longest-serving healthcare-consulting practices in Canada, xwave Healthcare is a leading Canadian health systems integrator and is currently involved in several provincial interoperable electronic health record (iEHR) projects, including the One Patient One Record (OPOR) system in New Brunswick, the Newfoundland and Labrador Prescription Drug Program, the Secure Health Access Record (SHARE) in Nova Scotia, and — Canada’s largest — the Dossier de Santé Électronique du Québec (DSQ).

xwave Healthcare has received a number of industry accolades, including — for 2008 —second place among the Branham Group’s Top 10 Healthcare Solution Companies, and an ITAC Health Project Implementation Team of the Year Award for work on Cancer Care Ontario’s Wait Time Information System (WTIS). In 2009 the company received a Knowledge Industry Recognition and Achievement (KIRA) Award for its Breast Health Tracking System developed for New Brunswick’s Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation.

As a division of Bell Aliant, xwave delivers IT professional services in support of one of North America’s largest regional communications providers, helping Bell Aliant deliver wide-ranging and innovative data, voice and video communications to 5.3 million Canadians in six provinces.

Building on two decades of GE Healthcare research and development, xwave has designed Ontario’s first ASP EMR. Through xwaveEMR, physicians across the province have secure, Internet-based access to award-winning Centricity Practice software, the industry’s best-selling EMR and now used by approximately 30,000 clinicians worldwide.