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News release
11/17/2005
Ortivus North America Prepares for CPIC Changes
Ortivus North America (NA) has already begun preparations for the upcoming Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) changes, anticipated to begin in approximately one year.
The CPIC was created in 1966 to provide tools to assist the police community in combating crime. It was approved by Treasury Board in 1967 as a computerized information system to provide all Canadian law enforcement agencies with information on crimes and criminals. CPIC is operated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) under the stewardship of National Police Services, on behalf of the Canadian law enforcement community.
At this time, the CPIC is undergoing changes and is currently getting ready for the implementation of the Third Phase of its reengineering plan. Here is a brief description of what Phase Three is and what it will mean in terms of changes:
- Phase Three will change Input (queries) and Output (results from queries) formats of the CPIC system.
- Potentially the Phase Three implementation plan could be modified and split in two stages. The first stage includes changing the Output formats; the second stage includes modifying the Inputs. At this time, both formats are scheduled to change concurrently.
- Once the Inputs and Outputs are changed, the old formats will no longer be supported.
- Outputs are currently scheduled to change at the end of 2006 and new Input sometime in Spring 2007.
- No fallback system will be available; therefore, agencies and vendors need to be prepared.
Ortivus NA is currently working with CPIC to ensure the switch to the new system is seamless and ‘painless’ for our customers.
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About Ortivus:
Ortivus offers integrated software solutions for Emergency Medical Services and Public Safety. The North American Subsidiary develops and markets the following pre-hospital applications: EMS billing, patient care reporting, computer-aided dispatch, automatic vehicle location, mobile data application, and patient vital signs monitoring and data transmission.
The Ortivus vision is to be the customer’s preferred provider of integrated information and decision-making software support systems in the Emergency Medical Service, Public Safety and Healthcare industries.
Ortivus operates out of two North American corporate office locations (Decorah, Iowa, US and Montreal, Quebec, Canada), as well as several international locations (Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain).