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.

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Twelve years after Nova Scotia integrated the health care offered in its provincial prisons into its public health system, the province’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Robert Strang, says the …

When Irsan Nasution, a bus driver in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta, fell off a roof and severely injured his back and wrists two years ago, he knew he was …

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 …

50 years after Canada implemented universal access to health care, Canadian politicians say the survival of the country’s network of government-funded health systems is in jeopardy. Spooked by rapidly increasing …

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

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 …

While most of the banking community back in Canada continues to fight over a mature domestic market and obsess over halting progress in the United States, Scotia has been busily …

When Dr. Alfredo Pinzon, an internal medicine specialist, stepped into the emergency ward at Hospital Simón Bolivar Hospital in the Colombian capital of Bogotá to confer with a colleague, he …