No money. No targets. No consensus on controversial issues such as guaranteeing access to affordable drugs, stiffened measures against the tobacco and alcohol industries, and regulations to curb international trade …
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.
While several provinces have built centralized drug information systems that theoretically allow e-prescribing, there are few doctors in Canada who are electronically transmitting prescriptions to pharmacies.
Several developing nations are joining the revolution in electronic health records to improve efficiency in their health systems, but at a fraction of the usual cost.
A recent report on ehealth from the World Health Organization (WHO) that ranks Canada 21st in information technology development, underscores the need for an independent “watchdog”, experts say.
Canada’s health information strategy is overly focused on the development of a national infostructure and underserves the needs of physicians and patients, provincial administrators say following release of a major …
Billions of dollars are being squandered in Canadian purchasing of health software for reasons of industrial policy, which is leading to disastrous technical problems and vast overpayments to technology companies …
Industry forecasts indicate that Canadians will soon face a marketing avalanche to persuade them to purchase personal genetic test kits. But while American officials are moving to regulate do-it-yourself genetic …
Population-level public health data in the province of Ontario should be used as a “lever” to attract international investment in genetics research, a high-powered panel of geneticists urges. But to …