Ontario CASs testing new IT system.Ontario's Children's Aid Societies will test a new integrated information technology (company) Integrated Information Technology - (IIT) A Santa Clara based company producing a programmable, single chip H.261 and MPEG system. The chip contains a RISC processor, originally based on the MIPS architecture but now called RISCit, and a "Pixel Processor". system early in 2007. Working with the Ontario Association of Children's Aid, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Curam Software are developing a Web-based system to improve efficiency and information sharing See data conferencing. among child welfare agencies child welfare agency Child psychiatry An administrative organization providing protection to children, and supportive services to children and their families in the province. "Currently, case workers must deal with information coming from a variety of sources and systems, much of it on paper," said Jeanette Lewis, Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies. "With the new system, Children's Aid Societies will be able to get information more quickly; and more easily track, report and transfer cases, enhancing their ability to provide better protection for children." The new system alms to provide fully integrated case See I-CASE. management support, enabling case workers to share information and apply common processes such as eligibility screening. The OCAS OCAS abbr. Organization of Central American States OCAS n abbr (= Organization of Central American States) → ODECA f OCAS n abbr (= plans to test the system in three children's aid society agencies with a total of 500 end users. When tests are completed, the case management system will be made available to approximately 4,500 case workers across the province. IBM has identified common practices among member societies and the company IBM will provide project and application management, business transformation, helpdesk and hosting services. Curam Software is a Dublin-based company that specializes in software for health and social welfare programs. gvandermeulen@oacas.org |
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