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IMECore against a spreadsheet and an inbox
This is the real competitor. Almost every coordination firm runs on a tracker, a shared drive, and somebody's memory.
The problem
A spreadsheet cannot tell you what it does not know
The tracker holds what someone typed into it. It does not know that the imaging centre never sent the films, that the examiner emailed a question on Friday, or that the report is now four days from a hearing. Every one of those facts lives in a person's head or a mailbox.
- Two people edit the tracker and one version wins silently.
- The status column is right on the day it was typed.
- Nobody can reconstruct which records the examiner received.
- A cell holds a claim number and a diagnosis, in a file on a laptop.
- The person who knows the file goes on leave.
What changes
What IMECore does about it
The case updates itself
Status comes from what happened, not from what someone remembered to type.
Records are attached, not linked
Every page sits on the case with its source and date. No shared drive to search.
An audit trail you did not have to keep
Who did what, and when. Export it when counsel asks.
Access by role, not by trust
The examiner sees the records. The employer sees restrictions. The tracker cannot do that.
Health data out of a laptop
Case data lives in Canada under access control, not in a file called tracker_final_v3.
The knowledge survives the person
A coordinator can hand over a file without a two-hour conversation.
Side by side
IMECore and Spreadsheets and email
Every claim here comes from their own public site, checked on 27 August 2026. Where a row says the answer is not published, we could not find it, which is not the same as it not existing.
| Capability | IMECore | Spreadsheets and email |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to start | Per closed case | Free |
| Bends to any process | Configurable, within a model | Anything you like |
| Status reflects reality | Yes | Only when typed |
| Records attached to the case | Yes | A link, at best |
| Shows missing record sources | Yes | No |
| Audit trail | Automatic and exportable | None |
| Role-based access | Yes | File-level at best |
| Health data residency | Canada | Wherever the file is |
| Survives a departure | Yes | Depends on the person |
What Spreadsheets and email is good at
It is free, everyone already knows it, and it bends to any process you invent on a Tuesday afternoon.
Pick them instead of us if
You run fewer than about ten cases a month, one person owns all of them, and nobody has ever asked you to prove what the examiner saw.
Free tools
Try the calculation first
No account, no upload. These run in your browser.
- Free tool
Records review time estimator
Turn a page count into a review-time range and a cost. Handwriting, duplication, and complexity all change the answer.
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Report turnaround planner
Enter the exam date and the date you need the report. See the slack, the critical path, and the latest workable exam date.
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FAQ
Questions people ask
At what point does a spreadsheet stop working?
Usually at the second coordinator, or the first disclosure request. One person tracking twenty cases can hold it in their head. Two people sharing a file cannot, and neither can answer what the examiner had on a given date.
Can we import our existing tracker?
Yes. Send the sheet and we map the columns onto cases. History comes across as a starting state, not as invented audit entries.
Is a spreadsheet a privacy problem?
It can be. A tracker with claimant names and claim numbers is personal information. Under BC PIPA and PIPEDA you have to know where it is, who opened it, and when it is deleted. A file on a laptop answers none of those.
We already use a shared drive. Is that not the same?
A shared drive stores documents. It does not know which of them the examiner received, which source is still outstanding, or which version of the report was released.
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See it against one of your own files
Bring a case that keeps getting passed around. We will run it through IMECore on the call.