Despite a 2015 deadline for all patients to have an electronic health record, only two-thirds of Ontarians have a digital medical file as the year draws to a close, according to the latest figures from eHealth Ontario.
The agency was created in September 2008 to bring Ontario’s health records into the digital age by this year.
But just a year after that work began, eHealth was engulfed in a spending scandal that the province’s former auditor general said cost taxpayers $1 billion.
The eHealth scandal created a setback in the timeline. But the CEO of OntarioMD, the agency owned by the Ontario Medical Association that’s contracted by the government to get doctors hooked up to the eHealth system, says it has made “great strides” since 2009.
About 80 per cent of family doctors have, or are in the process of moving to, electronic medical files, and records are now routinely transferred electronically from hospitals.
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