Canada has focused on first establishing the fundamentals, the foundational and overarching systems for Canadians to have electronic health records available to their health care professionals. The new funding under the economic action plan will stimulate continued implementation of electronic health records across Canada. The funding will also be used to implement electronic medical records in physicians' offices, as requested by the CMA, and in other clinical settings, and to connect points of service such as hospital information systems and patient portals with the electronic health records system. We will continue to implement that.
On March 16th, 2010. See this statement in context.