US President Barack Obama is frustrated with the work of contractors, including Canada’s largest technology company, and the sustained problems with the website at the centre of his hard-fought Affordable …

The decades-long push to bring Canadian health care into the information age focused on building giant data repositories. Patients’ demands for electronic connections to their health care providers are not …

Digital health pioneer Eric Topol charts the impacts of genomics, wireless sensors, mobile devices and other digital heath information technologies.

Mismanagement by government e-health agencies and commercial turf battles are preventing researchers and patients from realizing many of the rewards that the “big data” era could deliver.

After the SARS disaster killed 44 people in Ontario in 2003, the federal government was advised by an expert panel to bolster a “system that will collect, analyze, and disseminate …

Canada’s e-health disconnect doesn’t stem from a lack of effort. Convinced that electronic connections between patients and clinicians will forge better, cheaper health care, the provincial and federal governments have …

Completing a full retreat from an e-health strategy based on centralized national records, the government of the United Kingdom has unveiled a 10-year blueprint that aims to put the “power …

Admit defeat and move on. Canada needs to rethink its ehealth strategy .

Canada Health Infoway must rapidly reboot, and do so in substantial fashion, if it’s to justify public outlays beyond the billions already spent on developing a national electronic health infrastructure, …

A $46-million diabetes registry was to have augured a new era of chronic disease management within Ontario. But critics say the overdue registry has been beset by procurement miscues, and …