“A pan-Canadian electronic health record sounds like a no-brainer. Health is a knowledge- and service-intensive business, so information technology should be able to organize wait lists, streamline services, improve efficiency and reduce medical prescription errors. It could ultimately reduce costs, maybe even as much as $6 billion according to Canada Health Infoway, the federally funded not-for-profit set up in 2000 to dole out cash for health information technology projects across the country. Yet only 23 per cent of Canadian physicians use some kind of electronic health record.”
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Peter Vaughan, TheStar.com, 19 June 2009
