Bill C-72

Connected Care For Canadians Act

An Act respecting the interoperability of health information technology and to prohibit data blocking by health information technology vendors

Sponsor

Mark Holland  Liberal

Status

Second reading (House), as of June 6, 2024

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment aims, among other things, to ensure that health information technology that is licensed, sold or supplied as a service by a vendor is interoperable and to prohibit data blocking by the vendor in order to promote a connected, secure and person-centered health system.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-72s:

C-72 (2018) Law Appropriation Act No. 5, 2017-18
C-72 (2015) Law Qausuittuq National Park of Canada Act
C-72 (2005) An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to DNA Identification

HealthOral Questions

December 17th, 2024 / 3:15 p.m.


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Ajax Ontario

Liberal

Mark Holland LiberalMinister of Health

Mr. Speaker, we have signed agreements with every province and every territory. We saw in the CIHI baseline data last year that nearly every jurisdiction in the country saw more doctors and more nurses. It is not enough. Provinces have to do their part and have to be responsible for this health transformation. However, there is something huge this Parliament can do, and that is pass Bill C-72, which is connected care legislation. Just one example is that allowing AI scribes to be used in our system would create the equivalent of 1,000 new doctors in a very short period of time. Connected care can open up new avenues of care, and that is something this Parliament can do.