The bill means patients and health-care providers would be able to completely and securely access health information and exchange it with other systems.
The bill would require vendors to ensure that health information tech they license, sell or supply as a service is interoperable.
The bill is designed fill gaps in provinces and territories where similar provisions don’t already exist. In exchange for an estimated $17.3 billion in new health funding from the federal government through the Canada Health Transfer, Trudeau asked provinces to share comparable data and digitize the health information of Canadians so it can be more easily accessed and shared between hospitals, clinics and jurisdictions.emailed to you every Sunday.
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