Profile

A QUEBEC COMPANY FOUNDED BY A PHARMACIST

Vigilance Santé is a Quebec company that was founded in 1991. Founder and president Raymond Chevalier, himself a pharmacist, started off by developing a tool that would simplify his work in his own pharmacy. Since the work of health care professionals is becoming increasingly demanding and complex, it is important for them to have access to high performance computer-based tools that can be adapted to their individual practices. This was the driving force behind Rx Vigilance, the first of our products to be marketed back in 1992. Since then, we have been developing databases and software that have become powerful computer-based work tools that are quickly becoming indispensable for today's clinician.

A FIELD-BASED TEAM

Despite the thoroughness and attention that goes into developing our tools, they are nonetheless quick and easy to use. Users require minimal training to master the various applications.

In addition to continuously updating its databases, the Vigilance Santé team is constantly developing new tools. By actively staying in touch with community and institutional pharmacy, the five pharmacists employed by Vigilance Santé are able to keep in step with the evolving needs and concerns of health care professionals.

SERIOUS AND DEMANDING CLIENTS

Among its clients, Vigilance Santé is proud to serve:

• More than 800 pharmacies across Quebec, including those that are part of the Groupe Jean Coutu
• 1000 Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacies
• A hundred or so dispensaries for First Nations and Inuit managed by Health Canada
• Several hospitals including the CHUM, CUSM, CHUQ, the Sacré-Cœur, Pierre-Boucher, Rivière-des-Prairies, Charles-Lemoyne and Louis-H.Lafontaine
• Long-term care facilities (CHSLD Meilleur, CHSLD Rivière du Nord, Foyer D’Youville (Montmagny), Centre Drapeau and Deschambault, etc.)
• Medical clinics (UMF de l’Enfant-Jésus (Beauport), Clinique Médicale des Haut-Bois, Clinique Médicale Laval, etc.)
• The McGill University MOXXI project
• The Quebec Order of Pharmacists
• The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montréal
• The Blue Cross/CANAMI Centre and SIGMA Assistel, support centres for international travelers
• The Association of Dental Surgeons of Quebec (ACDQ)
• and more...

Several software development companies have designed interfaces that allow them to integrate and run Rx Vigilance using their software:

• Artefact Informatique (Hospitals)
• Christian Gagnon Services Informatiques – CGSI
• Communiteq (information terminal)
• ePharma (Internet site)
• Kroll Computers Systems Inc. (Pharmacies)
• Logibec (Hospitals)
• Logipharm (Pharmacies)
• Mark Rathwell / EDI-net (Hospitals)
• Médiamed (Hospitals)
• MédiSolution (Hospitals)
• Omnitech Labs (Hospitals)
• Services Informatiques Médica (Pharmacies)
• Stat-Dev (Hospitals)
• Systèmes Informatiques CHCA (Hospitals)
• XD3 Solutions inc. (Pharmacies)