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 …