HALIFAX – Bell Aliant has partnered with Microsoft Canada on a program providing bedside access to the Internet and virtual classrooms for hospitalized children at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
The program, called Child Life Interactive Computers for Kids (CLICK), allows the children to access their classrooms virtually in real time via a laptop and a webcam. It also provides wireless connectivity, hardware, software, and Xbox consoles and games.
"Aliant is excited to partner with the IWK and Microsoft to bring the CLICK program to Atlantic Canada. We understand the power of communications and we recognize the role it plays in the healing process. Our support for children’s health, for the IWK and for the CLICK program is built on a desire to use our unique set of skills and the combined commitment of our team of employees to support children and their families," said Ivan Toner, chief information officer at Aliant, in a press release.
The IWK Health Centre is the third Children’s Miracle Network-affiliated hospital to establish a CLICK program in Canada, and the first to offer virtual classrooms. Microsoft Canada and the Children’s Miracle Network launched the CLICK program at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa in May 2005 and at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) in Quebec City in 2007.
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