Tánaiste Announces Multi Million Euro Deal for Irish Software Company Lincor Solutions on Enterprise Ireland Trade Mission to Canada
Lincor’s MEDIVista solution to be installed at 1,000 bed hospital in Ontario
The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan T.D. today (Tuesday 21 October 2009) announced that Irish software company Lincor Solutions Ltd., has won a significant contract to install its innovative MEDIVista solution in the renowned London Health Sciences Center (LHSC), in Ontario Canada. The initial phase of the contract involves installation of 300 beds at the 1,000 bed LHSC campus.
Lincor, an Enterprise Ireland client company specialising in healthcare solutions, secured the contract along with its Canadian technology partner Carillion IT, a subsidiary of Carillion Canada.
The announcement was made during Enterprise Ireland’s trade mission to Canada involving 35 companies from sectors including software, telecoms and financial services aiming to grow their exports and extend their trade links with Canada.
Making the announcement, the Tánaiste said:
“I’d like to congratulate Lincor and their Canadian partner Carillion on securing this prestigious and significant contract. Lincor is an innovative Irish company offering technologically advanced software solutions for the medical sector. The company is a fast growing, international Irish success story with solutions installed at over 14,000 hospital beds in some 60 hospitals worldwide. This new contract is a further step in the company’s impressive export growth that will help them bolster their already successful Irish operation.”
Richard Cooke, Chief Executive of Lincor Solutions added:
“We are delighted to win this contract with our partners Carillion IT for the London Health Sciences Center in Ontario, especially as LHSC is so highly regarded in the Canadian Healthcare Sector. This adds to our growing presence and reputation as the leading Global provider of digital media entertainment and clinical access solutions at the point of care.”
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About Lincor
Lincor Solutions, founded in 2003, developed its patented MEDIVista solution for the provision of patient entertainment services and secure access to clinical applications at the point-of-care in hospitals – the patient bedside.
MEDIVista is a fully digital solution providing a suite of triple-play entertainment services for patients across Internet, TV and Telephone as well as access to clinical applications such as Electronic Patient Records and X-Ray images. Patient well-being is enhanced by having access to entertainment and communication services, while for hospitals, productivity and patient safety is improved by giving medical staff the ability to access clinical applications at the point of care. Lincor operates internationally from Dublin, Cork and Toronto and now has the largest installed base of its type worldwide. MEDIVista is delivered through a network of channel and technology partners in Europe, Middle East, Asia and the Americas.
About Carillion IT
Carillion Canada, based in Toronto, is best known for its success in the field of P3 (Public-Private Partnership) projects – particularly in the healthcare sector, where we are the largest provider of non-clinical hospital services in Canada. Less well-known, perhaps is the scale of Carillion’s roads management activities. In Canada, where winter snow clearing is vital to keeping the economy moving and our roads as safe as possible for drivers, Carillion plays a major role. Through its subsidiary TWD Roads Management, Carillion is the largest provider of roads management services in Ontario and, as Carillion Alberta, the largest roads management contractor in the West. For more information, see http://www.carillion.ca
For further information contact:
Simon Walsh, Lincor Solutions Ltd., Tel: +1 416 637 5072, +1 647 822 2669 (mobile), email: simon.walsh@lincor.com
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