"Health records scandals making all Canadians sick
Posted By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Posted 3 hours ago
Nine years ago, the feds and Canada's 13 provincial and territorial governments announced a $10-billion plan to develop computerized medical records for every Canadian.
Federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser will report next year on the progress of the Electronic Health Records (eHealth) project, based on her audit of federal efforts and similar probes by her counterparts in five provinces. But what we already know suggests billions of taxpayers' dollars may have been wasted.
Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter has just issued a scathing report on his province's EHR efforts, concluding the government lost control of the project, which began in 2002, and has spent $1 billion with little to show for it, leaving its future mired in controversy."
Time to fix it or lose it -Pr
1 comment:
Unfortunately, we are in for the same type of problems here in the US. Things are pretty grim in Congress for healthcare.
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