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Pathology Laboratory Information System ( AP-LIS ), due to be fully implemented by the end of the fiscal year . “ A big part of that investment was publicly funded by our provincial government . We also have partnered with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer ( CPAC ) who has provided funding to DSM to make significant investments in AP-LIS that will enable synoptic reporting , along with another federal funding partner , Canada Health Infoway ,” notes Slater .
“ Manitoba has made a major investment in digital imaging contributing to the creation of a province-wide digital imaging system . Most recently , the province of Manitoba made a CA $ 25mn investment in digital mammography that was delivered under the leadership of DSM and funded almost entirely by our provincial government . DSM receives 95- 99 % of our funding through the public sector . As we are a Canadian Corporation this allows us to enter into partnerships with industry , business and funding agencies . It makes us unique in the country , unique in the world , I would think , because we have such a broad mandate .”
Geographic challenges Indeed , DSM ’ s mandate is broad both in the sense of the services that it provides but also geographically . “ We have a land mass that is 1.5 times the size of the state of California and so we ’ re a very large geographic area ,” Kresta advises . The population is also not evenly distributed . The 2016 Census of Canada found that approximately 1.3mn people live in the province and around 778,000 of those live in the metro Winnipeg area , located 68 miles from the US border .
This uneven distribution can be a struggle for DSM at times . “ It ’ s very challenging at some of our sites . If you look at the map , we have pretty remote and isolated sites – sites which you can only fly into ,” Slater observes . “ If you look at our farthest northern site on the map , which is Churchill , it is only accessible by air travel and by ship
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