SIMUL8 Corporation took a step towards expanding its position in the Canadian healthcare market today by signing a partnership agreement with Visual8 Corporation to become a distributor of SIMUL8’s Scenario Generator software in Canada.

Scenario Generator is a user-friendly visual simulation software system that enables healthcare, social services and other public sector agencies and private sector organizations to explore real life scenarios in a risk free environment. Using statistically accurate results, users can select options for change based on conclusive evidence of what benefits their organization the most. Scenario Generator software is embedded with up-to-date population and disease prevalence data, enabling users to gain actual insight and appreciation of the risks, impact and benefits of existing and future options for change which support strategic and operational decision-making. Using Scenario Generator enables testing of many different scenarios generating the data necessary to support evidence-based decision making.

From cost savings to improvements in patient care, the software is currently used by health and human service systems worldwide. Visual8 will be the first external distributor of Scenario Generator. Dr Eileen Pepler, a world leading scholar and consultant on health and social service sector reform particularly with respect to patient centered and social service delivery systems, will be working with Visual8, using her experience with Scenario Generator to promote its benefits in the Canadian market. “With over a decade of collaboration between our companies, Visual8 is an obvious choice to provide Scenario Generator training and solutions to Canada, and with Dr. Pepler’s knowledge and expertise, they are offering a powerful solution,” says SIMUL8 Lead for Healthcare, Claire Cordeaux. “The timing couldn’t be better with the release of Scenario Generator 4.0 this month.”

In the new release, Scenario Generator includes for the first time clinical and service pathways, pre-populated with health and social care prevalence data, and health and human services cost data. The new software release includes features to allow for the evaluation, through sophisticated simulation techniques, of the impact of demand on services and resources, and the effect of changes to service configuration. The software is designed to allow services to easily and securely share data across public sector agencies who participate in the delivery of services leading to joined-up data for measuring outcomes.

The Canadian healthcare market is in urgent need of new tools that can help address the complex issues around service delivery and identify improvements on a number of levels—national, provincial and regional. Scenario Generator provides health and social care professionals with a powerful decision-making tool to assess where and how our healthcare dollars can be better spent by aligning resources to meet demand aimed at improving access, reducing waiting times and managing budgetary constraints

- Kieran Concannon, Visual8 CEO