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 …

Vastly improved monitoring of addictive painkillers is needed to handle the scourge of inappropriate opioid prescribing, dispensing and use in Canada, experts say. But dithering and empire building by federal …

Critics say One of the architects of Canada’s ehealth strategy says it entirely missed the boat because of an excessive focus on developing massive centralized data systems rather than directly …

The federal government promised to give every Canadian an electronic health record. Eleven years and $2 billion later, we’re still waiting. Lives are hanging in the balance.

Canada should revisit its digital health strategy following recommendations that the UK’s very similar blueprint should be jettisoned as wasteful and flawed, experts say.