AIM designed and implemented an E-Path solution for the automated electronic submission of pathology reports that will securely and efficiently deliver data from lab to cancer registry. This system automates the process of gathering and filtering pathology results that monitor the incidence of cancer in California. The E-Path system converts reports to standardized terminology and encodes medical content. AutoCode and TransMed are the AIM products that work together to provide this E-Path solution.

HealthDesk, AIM's subsidiary, developed an on-line application customized for the collection of inflammatory bowel disease data. This secure web-based system facilitates the collection, cataloguing, storage and distribution of tissue, blood and clinical data from IBD patients.

AIM's ISIS-CSP was implemented in Manitoba, Canada in support of the province's cervical cancer screening program, helping to protect over 500,000 women by screening pap test results and providing follow-up notices to their physicians.

AIM developed the Pathology Information Management System (PIMS), an electronic tumor pathology reporting system to support rapid population-wide surveillance of cancer. The system is being expanded to include pathology data from over 100 Ontario laboratories. The PIMS system improves compliance, timeliness and quality of information submitted to the Ontario Cancer Registry. It reduces the cost of processing reports, and provides efficient access to relevant information by researchers and clinicians.

In 2005, this project won the CIPA Gold Award of Excellence in the category of Organizational Transformation. PIMS uses ISIS components and TransMed

AIM provided IT services including application development in Developer 2000/Oracle Forms and Oracle database management, design and administration. This work upgraded Cardiac Care Network's system to current standards.

ISIS components are being used at City of Hope in Los Angeles to view, edit and annotate reports that are being sent to the Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program. City of Hope is one of several Los Angeles hospitals that is using AIM's E-path system to prepare pathology reports in a way that is acceptable to the cancer registry.

AIM's Merlin Cytology software provides high volume cervical screening with specialized QC/QA protocols in labs in Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, and London. Merlin helps track, manage and control the testing process to ensure that all work is completed accurately and efficiently.

AIM's TransMed software sends cytology lab results to the INSCYTE cervical screening program that helps to protect over 3 million women in Ontario by providing follow-up notices to their physicians.

TissueMetrix is currently being used by Dr. Brenda Banwell, Director of the Paediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Clinic, to manage the data associated with samples taken in a Canada-wide study of children having their first attack of demyelination. Some children completely recover, others have further attacks and are eventually diagnosed with MS. The information being stored will be used to try and determine the clinical and biological predictors of MS.

TissueMetrix is also being used by Dr. David Malkin, Director of the Cancer Genetics Program, to manage the data associated with tissue samples that are collected for research. He and his team are investigating the phenomenon of inherited cancer risk, with the aim to better understand how genes cause cancer, and to develop new treatment techniques.

AIM developed and maintains the Centralized Medical Record for Cervical Cytology (CytoBase) in support of Ontario's cervical screening program using ISIS components and TransMed. This system helps to protect over 3 million women in Ontario by tracking pap smear results and providing information to their physicians.

The lab results stored in the INSCYTE database can be securely accessed in real-time by registered physicians through an internet based interface developed by HealthDesk, AIM's subsidiary, called CytoBase for Clinicians. This provides healthcare providers with current information that promotes the best care for their patients.

AIM designed and implemented an E-Path solution for the automated electronic submission of pathology reports that securely and efficiently delivers data from lab to cancer registry. This system automates the process of gathering and filtering pathology results that monitor the incidence of cancer in Los Angeles County. The E-Path system converts reports to standardized terminology and encodes medical content. AutoCode and TransMed are the AIM products that work together to provide this E-Path solution.

AIM's Merlin Cytology software provides high volume cervical screening with specialized QC/QA protocols in labs in Ontario. Merlin helps track, manage and control the testing process to ensure that all work is completed accurately and efficiently.

AIM's TransMed software sends cytology lab results to the INSCYTE cervical screening program that helps to protect over 3 million women in Ontario by providing follow-up notices to their physicians.

AIM's integration engine, TransMed provides a pre-configured interface for Medworxx' Clinical Utilization Management software (formerly Continuum) in hospitals throughout Canada.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) uses AIM's E-Path solution to collect data in their Nevada and Ohio registries. NPCR is using this data to enable public health professionals to determine the national burden of cancer.

AIM's E-path systems connects the Healthcare Corporation of St. John's to the Newfoundland Cancer Registry. AIM is now integrating pathology data from six laboratories across the province.

The E-path system will improve both data quality and cost efficiency in care reporting and ultimately will result in better patient care.

AIM's TissueMetrix is being used to help manage the Ontario Tumour Bank, a province wide tissue repository. The goal of the Ontario Tumour Bank is to provide a source of high quality material to allow the development of diagnostic tools, drug discovery and research. The samples are collected at locations across Ontario, and the information is anonymized and electronically transmitted to the centralized database. The analyses of these tissues are available through a web-based interface also developed by AIM.

AIM designed, implemented and maintains a Provincial information system for recording patient-identified data on pediatric cancer in Ontario. This system uses ISIS technology to link 5 major tertiary hospitals to the central system in Toronto, where it is used to gather statistics regarding children's cancer control and treatment.

AIM developed Saskatchewan's Screening Program for Breast Cancer. This centralized database and application uses ISIS components. This program is used to protect women, over 50, in Saskatchewan by screening test results and providing follow-up notices to their physicians.

AIM provides St. Joseph's Health Centre with a complete laboratory system, (Merlin) and related IT support services.

AIM's TissueMetrix is being used to help manage and track their human tissue repository.

The National Cancer Insitute (NCI) has entered into a Sole Source contract with AIM, to use AIM's E-Path solution for their Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. E-Path is being provided to all the SEER registries and their major reporting laboratories.

E-Path has currently been implemented in 13 of the registries and 207 reporting hospitals and laboratories in Atlanta, Connecticut, Detroit, Greater California, Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New Mexico, Northern California, Seattle and Utah.

AIM designed and implemented an innovative E-Path solution for the automated electronic submission of pathology reports that securely and efficiently delivers data from lab to cancer registry. This system improves quality of data while automating the process of gathering and filtering pathology results that monitor the incidence of cancer in Utah.

The E-Path system converts reports to standardized terminology and encodes medical content. AutoCode, TransMed and ISIS components are the AIM products that work together to provide this E-Path solution.