The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has grown dramatically since McMaster accepted her first patient, a three-year old burn victim named Maggie. Today, SickKids is Canada’s largest children’s health institution. The hospital employs more than 5,000 staff, and handles nearly 50,000 emergency room visits and a combined 321,131 ambulatory and inpatient visits each year.

Among the many crucial systems the hospital relies on is one that supports its patient records. With such a large volume of complex patients, hospital staff must have up-to-date patient histories available to them at all times and in any location within the building.