Atlantic Business Magazine has just announced the best places to work in Atlantic Canada as part of its inaugural awards program, which was established to recognize companies and organizations that are 100% committed to HR excellence—workplaces where going above and beyond is the norm.
VeroSource Solutions Inc. was one of 20 winners selected from nearly 130 nominations. Award winners are those who excelled across all judging categories: corporate culture; work/life balance; diversity, equity and inclusion; benefits/remuneration; incentives/rewards (financial and otherwise); professional development and opportunities for career advancement.
Read more: Atlantic Canada's Best Places to Work 2023, Atlantic Business Magazine
And see a full list of winners: Best Places to Work In Atlantic Canada, TheWave.ca
VeroSource is pleased to be working with Dr. Erik Scheme's research team at the University of New Brunswick to develop technology that can track and analyze changes in a senior's health to reduce chance of hospitalization. Wellness Check, an app developed by VeroSource, is a tool that assists personal support workers while they conduct home check-ups when visiting seniors.
Read the full CBC article here:
VeroSource CEO joined Director of MyHealthNB and Registries, NB Department of Health, to present the history, implementation, and vision for NB’s FHIR Gateway
Fredericton, NB – VeroSource Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce that CEO Mark McAllister presented alongside Iuli Popescu, Director of MyHealthNB and Registries at the New Brunswick Department of Health, at the recent FHIR North Conference. Together on Wednesday, October 26 at 3:30PM EST, the two discussed the Gateway-as-a-Service (GaaS) project, which saw VeroSource's VS Gateway solution implemented in New Brunswick.
VS Gateway unlocks health data sources to delivery platforms for applications and data analysis through modern APIs, including FHIR. It is a cloud solution designed to make connections between new point of service systems and legacy back-end Electronic Health Record (EHR) repositories and registries.
Popescu and McAllister shared the history of how the GaaS project came to be, implementation lessons learned, and the vision for how GaaS will transform the way healthcare is delivered across the province of New Brunswick.
Video of the presentation can be found at this link. The video originally aired in FHIR North 2022.
VeroSource CEO, Mark McAllister, was named one of the Top 50 CEOs in Atlantic Canada during an awards gala last night at the Halifax Convention Centre. The annual awards ceremony hosted by Atlantic Business Magazine recognizes CEOs in the region who have demonstrated excellence and success across categories including corporate governance, organization growth, management, industry leadership, and personal social responsibility.
The Top 50 CEO award acknowledges Mark’s commitment to providing people with digital access to their health records, and particularly the work VeroSource did to provide people in New Brunswick and Manitoba with access to their COVID-19 test results and immunization records. “The pandemic was a catalyst for innovation in healthcare and there’s no going back,” said McAllister.
VeroSource’s Healthy Seniors Pilot Project partner, the University of New Brunswick’s Dr. Erik Scheme, recently gave a presentation about the importance of tools like Wellness Check to proactively assess seniors’ health, make predictive analysis regarding changes needed to their care, and ensure seniors are healthy in their homes.
Hospitalizations and other negative health events are detrimental to seniors’ health and costly to the healthcare system. Proactive health monitoring using tools like Wellness Check may help seniors avoid negative health events and remain safely in their homes for longer. Many seniors do not have the skills, knowledge, or technology to regularly monitor their health at their own at home. Without regular, proactive health monitoring, we cannot identify seniors at risk of negative health outcomes (like hospitalizations) before such events occur. Having trained home support workers (caregivers) use their skills and technology to monitor seniors’ health makes proactive health monitoring more accessible to seniors receiving home care.
In this project, trained caregivers from Kindred Home Care use the Wellness Check application to proactively monitor seniors’ health for risk factors that could predict hospitalizations or other negative health outcomes. Seniors’ complete regular health assessments with their caregivers. Caregivers enter the results into a mobile app for analysis. The assessments involve physical health (like weight and blood pressure) and cognitive/mental health (like word recall and quality of life).
More information about Wellness Check and the Healthy Seniors Pilot Project can be found in the presentation video here.
Fredericton, NB (February 3, 2022) – Digital health software company VeroSource Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce its partnership with the PLATO group of companies, Canada’s only Indigenous-led and staffed software testing organization that provides quality assurance solutions to clients throughout North America. The two companies, both headquartered in Fredericton, NB, are set to collaborate on application development projects in Manitoba initially, with aims to offer development and QA testing services to additional jurisdictions later in 2022.
VeroSource began working in Manitoba at the beginning of the pandemic following the successful launch of the MyHealthNB portal in New Brunswick. Leveraging its cloud-based foundational VSF platform, VeroSource developed a COVID-19 Online Results Display for Shared Health Manitoba (SH-CORD) that provides Manitobans with access to their COVID-19 test results and immunization records.
PLATO had also previously been engaged with the Government of Manitoba providing performance testing services. The VeroSource and PLATO partnership will build on the experience both companies have in the province, enabling new digital health solutions to be launched quickly and securely.
“PLATO has built a strong reputation for software testing and delivery excellence,” said Mark McAllister, CEO of VeroSource. “We are keen to expand our testing capacity with a partner that shares our commitment to excellence as we respond to the demand for digital health solutions across the country.”
“While PLATO has a presence from coast to coast, our roots will always be here in Atlantic Canada, which is why we’re happy to be announcing this partnership with VeroSource, a great company doing important work in the digital health space,” says PLATO CEO and Founder Keith McIntosh. “Together, PLATO and VeroSource will provide customers like the Government of Manitoba and others with quality software that enables better user experiences, enhances decision making, and improves outcomes.”
About VeroSource Solutions
VeroSource Solutions Inc. is a digital health company established in 2014 to empower people and unlock the potential in digital healthcare. Its team of professionals has extensive experience in the full lifecycle of IT solutions and offers healthcare providers the technology and support needed to go digital. VeroSource's cloud-first multi-channel software securely connects people, data and systems to drive digital healthcare transformation. Founded in Fredericton, NB, VeroSource has grown to include team members across Manitoba, Ontario and the Atlantic Canadian provinces.
Media Contact:
Helen Jamer
Director of Marketing
Helen.Jamer@verosource.com
(506) 429.8500
About PLATO Testing
PLATO Testing was founded in 2015 by Keith McIntosh, CEO of testing firm Professional Quality Assurance Ltd. PLATO is building a network of 1000 Indigenous software testers across Canada. PLATO currently employs more than 30 full-time Indigenous software testers, making a positive impact for clients from coast to coast. PLATO Testing has offices on or near Indigenous communities across Canada, in Fredericton, Miramichi, Sault Ste Marie, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver.
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Brit Mockler
Director of Marketing and Communications
Brit.Mockler@platotesting.com
(506) 440.2919
The Government of New Brunswick announced that appointments are now available for children aged five to 11 to receive their first dose of the pediatric Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine.
Parents and guardians, as they have with COVID-19 test results, will be able to securely access their children’s COVID-19 vaccination records in MyHealthNB. This ‘delegated authority’ feature ensures that parents and guardians have digital access to their children’s vaccination records and don’t need to worry about losing the paper record of vaccination.
Read GNB press release about COVID-19 vaccinations for children five to 11 here: https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2021.11.0857.html
Adam Huras, Telegraph Journal - Premier Blaine Higgs mentioned last week that New Brunswick is developing an app to help confirm the vaccination status of New Brunswickers.
"We have an app, it will take us probably four to five, six weeks ... that will look at MyHealth and transfer to an app you can show in your iPhone and basically confirm if you're vaccinated or not," he said.
MyHealthNB is an online platform, developed by Fredericton-based VeroSource Solutions, currently used by Public Health to inform people who were tested for COVID-19 of their results.
It already allows New Brunswickers to view and print their vaccination record through its website.
Read full Telegraph Journal here: https://tj.news/story/101649505
Former Government of New Brunswick CIO to Lead Digital Health Company's Data Science Practice
Fredericton, NB (July 21, 2021) - VeroSource Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce that Gerry Fairweather has joined its Executive as VP of Innovation and Analytics. Effective immediately, Fairweather will lead the digital health company's growing data science practice, building capability and capacity in data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more.
Fairweather brings a wealth of expertise to this role, having served in a number of senior leadership roles in healthcare IT and digital transformation over the past 20 years. Most recently, as CIO for the Province of New Brunswick, he was responsible for the strategic direction of provincial information and communications technology (ICT), digital transformation, cyber security, and privacy and information management across GNB. Prior to this role, Fairweather spent more than 10 years establishing enterprise architecture structure and standards for the New Brunswick Department of Health.
"Over the past decade, I've collaborated with the VeroSource team on a number of digital health and digital transformation-focused government initiatives," said Fairweather. "I now look forward to working more closely together-expanding their health analytics offering and continuing to pursue projects that make a positive impact in communities across New Brunswick and beyond."
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning, applied properly, will allow us to improve the way healthcare is administered by uncovering new efficiencies and by predicting outcomes such as early onset of diseases," said Mark McAllister, VeroSource's CEO. "We are so happy that Gerry is joining us to drive this facet of the business and contribute his vision for the future of health care and innovative expansion of our digital health platform."
In addition to mentoring and building VeroSource's data science team, technology and capabilities, Fairweather will also work with VeroSource's academic and research partners to further develop the company's intellectual property.
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About VeroSource Solutions
VeroSource Solutions Inc. is a digital health company established in 2014 to empower people and unlock the potential in Canadian healthcare. Its team of professionals has extensive experience in the full lifecycle of IT solutions and offers healthcare providers the technology and support needed to go digital. VeroSource's cloud-first multi-channel software securely connects people, data and systems to drive digital healthcare transformation. Founded in Fredericton, NB, VeroSource has grown to include team members across Ontario and the Atlantic Canadian provinces.
Home-based digital health assessments developed in partnership with the University of New Brunswick and Fredericton-based VeroSource Solutions
St. Stephen, NB (July 14, 2021) – Kindred Home Care, New Brunswick’s largest provider of home care services to seniors and individuals with disabilities, is on a mission to harness tech-driven solutions and real-time data to help clients remain safely at home for as long as possible.
Through the introduction of its Wellness Check Initiative (WCI), jointly funded by the Government of New Brunswick and the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Healthy Seniors’ Pilot Project, Kindred is piloting a digital health solution for home-based health care assessments that tracks clients’ cognitive/mental and physical health, including blood pressure and other key indicators. This initiative is a recent example of Kindred’s broader tech-driven approach to home care, to improve the health outcomes of its clients.
Completed by trusted caregivers in the comfort of home, the digital health assessments proactively flag any changes in health before they become larger issues, including falls or unexpected hospitalizations. The WCI is based on the PITCH digital health platform developed by Professor Erik Scheme’s research team at the University of New Brunswick in collaboration with VeroSource Solutions, whose proprietary digital health platform forms the foundation of the solution. As such, the WCI supports a proactive, outcome-based approach to seniors’ health care, providing critical, real-time data to clients, their families and health care providers.
“When you think of home care, you don’t typically associate leading-edge technology,” said Billy English, CEO of Kindred Home Care. “The success of this pilot has proven our caregivers and clients are up to the challenge of innovating, especially when it directly contributes to better health outcomes for the seniors we serve.”
Since the launch of the pilot project in November 2019, more than 185 Kindred caregivers across New Brunswick have been trained to assess and track the health care assessment data through a secure, custom app on their smartphones. As of May 2021, more than 110 clients received assessments within the month. Pilot feedback from caregivers, clients and client families has been overwhelmingly positive as the data gives them better insight into the evolving needs of each client, leading to more informed treatment measures such as medication adjustments or additional physical supports to improve mobility.
“I chose to participate in (WCI) because, if there was something that could improve my clients’ lives, I wanted to be a part of it!” said Lily Fletcher, a Fredericton-based Caregiver and Capacity Support Coordinator, who has participated in the pilot since its launch. “One of the most rewarding aspects was being able to monitor one client’s blood pressure, pulse and weight with pre-existing heart issues…the WCI gave the client peace of mind since they could check their blood pressure more frequently at home. My client was able to successfully lose weight and lower certain heart medications with the help of his health care team. The best feeling was being thanked by his nurses and doctors as they believed WCI was a great motivator in this client’s situation.”
“Collaborations like this initiative with Kindred, UNB and VeroSource demonstrate how impactful technology can be on an individual’s health outcomes,” said Mark McAllister, CEO, VeroSource Solutions. “It’s gratifying for our team to see how day-to-day analytics can make a huge difference in improving one’s health over the long term. We believe this proactive, outcome-based approach is the future of health care.”
“To date, the WCI pilot is reinforcing the critical importance of proactive engagement, continuous monitoring, and prevention,” said Dr. Erik Scheme, Project Lead and Director of the Health Technologies Lab at UNB. “By assessing and tracking even the smallest of changes, individuals and their care teams can make more informed, data-driven decisions, ensuring health issues are managed in an efficient and cost-effective manner. As the study continues, we’re looking forward to seeing the value this adds to regular in-person interactions and to the healthcare system.”
The WCI pilot will continue until fall 2021, when program results will be further compiled and shared by the research team. Building on this project’s progress and key learnings, Kindred is continuing to explore additional proactive, tech-driven solutions to the benefit of clients and their care teams.
About Kindred Home Care
Kindred Home Care is New Brunswick’s largest private provider of home care services, helping seniors and adults with disabilities remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. It provides support to individuals and families in the areas of personal care, activities of daily living and home management. Kindred Home Care is committed to helping its clients remain safely at home through providing technology-driven solutions to outcome-based care. Visit kindredhomecare.com.
About VeroSource Solutions
VeroSource Solutions Inc. is a digital health company established in 2014 to empower people and unlock the potential in Canadian healthcare. Its team of professionals has extensive experience in the full lifecycle of healthcare IT solutions and offers healthcare providers the technology and support needed to go digital. VeroSource’s cloud-first multi-channel software securely connects people, data and systems to drive digital healthcare transformation. Founded in Fredericton, NB, VeroSource has grown to include team members across Ontario and the Atlantic Canadian provinces. Learn more at verosource.com.
About PITCH
The WCI is a pilot deployment of the PITCH digital health platform developed at the University of New Brunswick by a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Erik Scheme. Encompassing research in digital health, healthy aging, data analytics, and cybersecurity, PITCH aims to promote and facilitate value-added client engagement as part of a regular and proactive health monitoring solution. Learn more or get involved at www.ece.unb.ca/escheme.