Rosie Lombadi

Scheduling physicians into the workflow of multiple health care sites is an administrative nightmare because a large percentage of the institutions use outdated or even paper-based systems.

A home-grown Web-based application called Chyma has been adopted by many Canadian communities to tackle scheduling and communications of doctors. About 5,000 physicians use the system across Canada to connect with major hospitals and related healthcare facilities in places such as Sudbury, North Bay, Brantford and Scarborough.