One unheralded aspect of the Fukushima crisis is the fact that some of the fuel burned at the Daiichi reactors is made by U.S. companies. In 2010, Japanese nuclear operators …

In Russia’s remotest corner the descendants of gulag prisoners and guards now work side by side under Canadian bosses.

Canada Health Infoway has at last signalled that it may be slowly tacking towards promoting meaningful use of digital health information by patients and clinicians.

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 Health Infoway’s plans for highly centralized electronic health records (EHR) systems within each province containing patient records that can be shared nationwide may not be feasible, a chorus of …

A global “landscape analysis” of health information systems in developing countries commissioned by the Bill & Linda Gates Foundation in 2010 praised Belize’s achievement as world-leading.

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 …

The contrast is startling. The United States government recently adopted regulations that will compel — and generously pay — American physicians to make “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs). …