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CGI CEO Michael Roach.

CGI Group Inc. has won a six-year contract from eHealth Ontario worth $46.2-million for a province-wide Internet site designed to help physicians better manage their patients' diabetes care.

The Montreal-based information technology company will build and maintain a chronic disease management system and portal which will be used initially to better manage diabetes care.

The system is billed as the first of its kind in Canada.

CGI said the site will result in faster diagnoses, more effective treatment and improved management for Ontarians living with the disease.

Greg Reed, CEO of eHealth Ontario, said the secure, shared registry that will be accessible to authorized clinicians, is a key component for Ontario's electronic health records.

"It will save lives, limbs and vision, and it will help make Ontario's health care system more sustainable," he stated.

Doug McCuaig, president of CGI Canada, said the leading provider of eHealth solutions in Canada is focused on working with governments to "harness the power of technology to improve quality of life and support a sustainable health care system."

Founded in 1976, CGI is one of the largest independent information technology and business process service firms in the world. It employs 26,000 people in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.

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