Canada needs to “get its act together” so researchers can benefit from national investments
in electronic health records, says researcher Dr. Robyn Tamblyn of McGill University in …

The latter reassurance is unconvincing, says Khaled el Eman, Canada research chair in
electronic health information at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine in Ontario. The …

The Canada Health Act states that health care should be portable—but health records are
not. Despite billion-dollar efforts to promote information transfers between jurisdictions, 1 …

In Canada, health information networks are being developed in every province to enhance
patient care and manage an increasingly complex health care system. Researchers and …

The personal health informationof patients in the United States is not safe, and it needs to
be. The vulnerability of health data is clear from the research letter by Liu and colleagues1 in …

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In Australia, there is limited use of primary health care data for research and for data linkage
between health care settings. This puts Australia behind many developed countries. In …

Medicine has a tradition of concern for the individual patient. Law has a tradition of delicately
balancing the goals of society against the needs of the individual. Computer science is still …

240 CMAJ, March 3, 2015, 187 (4) admissions to hospital are not useful for estimating
population prevalence of conditions that are most likely to be treated in the community (eg …

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makers and healthcare providers to be the foundation of Canada's healthcare system. A …