An electronic health record system will improve the safety and accountability of the overall health-care system. It will save time and lives by reducing duplication, improving the management of chronic disease, improving access to care and boosting productivity. This will result in a positive contribution to Canada's economy, including the creation of thousands of sustainable, knowledge-based jobs throughout Canada.

Feb 11, 2009, Leona Aglukkaq
Minister of Health, Government of Canada

Strategic Sectors

EXCITE has had a great deal of success in promoting public and private partnerships in the knowledge sectors of healthcare, life sciences and information technology. The convergence of these sectors engages local business partners with expertise from outside of the community to create economic value. These initiatives have benefited Grand Falls-Windsor by creating new jobs and building regional business partnerships with national and international stakeholders.

e-Healthcare

With the strength of these core knowledge sectors and the understanding that the Canadian e-Health market is currently at about $5 billion per year and growing at a significant rate, EXCITE has developed a cross-sector strategy to combine information technology with the field of healthcare to enable state-of-the-art solutions in the area of e-Health.

EXCITE is developing a comprehensive e-Health strategy based on strong public and private partnerships to generate economic activity in this emerging field.

Current initiatives:
  • The establishment of nationally accredited e-Health Training program at the College of the North Atlantic in Grand Falls-Windsor.
  • An e-Health sector blueprint for the region.

Healthcare

EXCITE facilitates opportunities that focus on leveraging public and private healthcare partnerships to create new economic activities . The focus is advancing community based medicine in Grand Falls-Windsor, healthcare educational programing and creating expertise in clinical research applications.

Life Sciences

EXCITE has identified life sciences as a key growth sector for Grand Falls-Windsor. Through its partnerships with private and public organizations and businesses, EXCITE is creating new economic opportunites and social value. An excellent example of this is our partnership with Memorial University.