Robust Software Solutions
Harder Software provides custom software and development services to businesses throughout Canada, specializing in healthcare communications and related claims automation software.

We pride ourselves in our robust and maintainable solutions, extending the life cycle of our products well beyond typical custom applications. We do the hard stuff for our clients, allowing them to concentrate on the things they do best.

Whether you wish to license or customize an existing product, have a new product developed, or simply use our expertise within your own development team, we can provide the tools and resources to suit your needs.
Areas of Expertise
Is our company the right one to get your job done? If you have requirements in any of the following areas, then the answer is YES!

Protocols and Standards
— If it's TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, SOAP, SMTP, XML, HL7, or any other protocol or standard, you can count on us to understand and implement it.

Communications Security
— We can provide you with industry standard security, such as SSL/TLS and X509 certificates to give you the confidence that data transmitted across networks are secure from prying eyes.

Web Development and Hosting
— We use a custom framework to develop unique sites, with data-aware backends. If it's possible to do we can do it for you. We can even host the end result on our secure server.

Portable Application Development
— We can develop desktop or server applications in almost any environment you wish. Because we use standard languages and libraries, we can easily port these to other environments.
Technologies and Standards
We use open source tools whenever we can, as these tend to be most portable across the various development environments. We adhere to application and development standards wherever possibe.

Technologies and standards that we typically employ are:

Operating Systems
— Windows, Linux, SCO Unix, AIX/PACE, and other flavours of *nix.

Languages
— Specializing in C/C++, Delphi, PHP and other scripting languages. There is no language we cannot master.

Databases
— PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle.

Security
— Strong encryption using OpenSSL SSL/TLS, X509 certificates.

Standards
— POSIX, OSI, HL7, XML, CeRX, NeCST, etc.
Health & Tech News
NWT implements interoperable Electronic Health Record

January 22, 2010 (Yellowknife, NWT) — Residents of the Northwest Territories and the health professionals who care for them will soon benefit from electronic access to medical information such as lab results as the territory rolls out the first release of the interoperable Electronic Health Record project, Minister of Health and Social Services Sandy Lee announced today.

Canada Health Infoway and Agfa HealthCare reach preferred solution agreement for diagnostic imaging solutions

December 18, 2009 (Toronto, ON) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging solutions, have reached a Preferred Solution Agreement (PSA) providing preferential conditions and pricing for Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX™ 6 Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Viewer as well as its IMPAX™ Data Center and Diagnostic Imaging Repository (DI-r). This is the second time Infoway and Agfa HealthCare have achieved a Preferred Solution Agreement.

myHEALTHPlan to connect patients, family doctors and care providers

December 9. 2009 (Surrey, BC) — Fraser Health is developing an innovative web-based tool called myHEALTHPlan that will improve communication between people living with multiple chronic conditions and their health care providers, and allow patients to take a greater proactive role in planning and meeting their health care needs.

Endeavour in orbit toward space station
Endeavour carried six astronauts into orbit Monday on what's likely the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program.
Chinese police shut down hacker training site
Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that provided cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.
Facebook threat gets boy banned from internet
A Charlottetown boy was given 18 months probation Monday for making a threat against his school on Facebook, and may not use the internet during that time.
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