Six provincial auditors joined with federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser yesterday to release a report depicting a dismal picture of Canada’s efforts to build a national health “infostructure.” The report, …

In the opinion of Dr. Karim Keshavjee, a Toronto, Ontario, family physician and associate member of the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines affiliated with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada’s …

It is estimated that only 30% of Canadian physicians employ electronic health records (EHRs), as compared with 50% in the United States and more than 90% in Denmark and other …

Two years after Barack Obama’s presidential campaign pledge to vastly increase usage of electronic health records (EHRs), the White House is following through. The Obama administration is implementing aggressive and …

Ontario must move faster with a series of legislative and regulatory measures in order to meet its commitment to create electronic health records for all residents by 2015, a senior …

The federal government’s failure to release $500 million in promised funding has slowed the next phase of the multibillion-dollar national effort to implement electronic health records (EHRs), says Canada Health …

According to an executive with the American health care giant Kaiser Permanente, electronic health records can dramatically improve quality of care and patient outcomes. But the principal investigator of a series …