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
New project will link medical records to a secure central system that will improve efficiency and quality of health care for residents of nine First Nations

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Canada Health Infoway, Cowichan Tribes of B.C., Health Canada (First Nations and Inuit Health Branch — Manitoba Region), Manitoba e-Health and Saint Elizabeth Health Care collaborate to benefit Manitoba First Nations

January 26, 2012 (Winnipeg, MB) - First Nation patients will benefit from better health and health care through information and communications technologies with the launch of the Mustimuhw cEMR (Community Electronic Medical Record), due to the hard work of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, announced AMC Grand Chief Derek Nepinak.

Canada Health Infoway, Trillium Health Centre and PatientOrderSets.com collaborate to benefit seniors care

New project will improve safety and quality of care for residents of long-term and complex continuing care facilities in Ontario

November 16, 2011 (Mississauga/West Toronto, ON) - Patient care for seniors in long-term or complex continuing care facilities will benefit from a new library of evidence-based information and clinical protocols that will be created as part of a $1 million investment Canada Health Infoway is making with Trillium Health Centre, announced Trillium President and CEO Janet Davidson, O.C.

Province Invests in Electronic Tools to Improve Patient Care: Oswald

November 9, 2011 (Winnipeg, MB) - Manitoba is launching innovative electronic tools that make the health-care system work better for patients and health-care providers, Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced today.

NASA's Kepler mission finds 26 new planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets — nearly doubling the number of verified planets and tripling the number of stars known to have more than one planet that passes in front of it.

Google touts improved images in Earth 6.2

Google has launched Google Earth 6.2, which it says shows a more seamless globe than the previous version and includes a new search interface.

Online economy expected to double by 2016

The size and value of the business conducted online is forecast to almost double by 2016, a report from a major consultancy says.

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