FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 24, 2016 – Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData has won a competitive multi-year contract with Heath Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) to develop and support their fraud detection and prevention programs. FNIHB administers a $1 Billion CAD health insurance program, the Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) to first nations people in Canada. The program covers pharmacy, dental, vision and medical transportation. They have issued a solicitation for help to support their ongoing efforts to combat fraud, waste and abuse within the NIHB program.
WiseWithData will be supporting not only their needs for fraud detection and prevention, but also to improve their data warehouse and BI reporting capabilities. In addition, they will be developing a web based audit case management system, so that cases of fraud or overpayment can be tracked and reported in a more efficient manner.
Comments:
“I’m so proud of our team in putting together the winning bid. They demonstrated to Health Canada that WiseWithData is the most qualified organization for Fraud analytics, data warehousing and reporting using legacy SAS based technologies. Noteworthy is that we beat out the incumbent vendor, the SAS Institute. We look forward to not only delivering on the requirements set forward by Health Canada, but also demonstrating the power and value Apache Spark can deliver, eliminating costly licence fees and ultimately benefiting the Indigenous peoples of Canada.”
Ian J. Ghent – President – WiseWithData
About WiseWithData
WiseWithData are leading experts in Apache Spark and legacy SAS based analytics. Our mission is to leverage the power of Apache Spark to Ignite Open Analytics for our customers. With deep knowledge of all aspects of business analytics, we are dedicated to helping customers get the most from their data assets. We offer consulting services for data warehousing, reporting and BI, forecasting, predictive modelling, natural language processing and simulation systems. We have deep domain experts in Fraud, Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, and Security Intelligence solutions for the banking, government, healthcare and insurance sectors.
About Heath Canada
Health Canada is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for national health policy. The department itself is also responsible for numerous federal health-related agencies, including the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB), Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), among others. These organizations help to ensure compliance with federal law in a variety of healthcare, agricultural, and pharmaceutical activities. This responsibility also involves extensive collaboration with various other federal- and provincial-level organizations in order to ensure the safety of food, health, and pharmaceutical products—including the regulation of health research and pharmaceutical manufacturing/testing facilities.