This time we have a Canadian story.There are many reports on this issue:First we have:After $8B spent, e-health records initiative still not completeAuditor General annual report critical of program to switch to electronic health records December 1, 2016 by: Sudbury.com Staff Ontario’s health-care sector spent more than $8 billion between 2002/03 and 2015/16 on various electronic health records projects and related initiatives, but significant components are still not operational, Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk said in her 2016 Annual Report.The government had committed in 2008 to providing an electronic health records for every Ontarian by 2015.“The initiative has certainly advanced since our last audit in 2009,” Lysyk said Wednesday after tabling her report in the Legislature. “However, it is still not possible to say if it is on budget because the government never set an overall budget for it. In effect, we cannot say if $8 billion is a reasonable figure.”Although an overall...
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