Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank everyone for the excellent presentations. Many of the witnesses whom we heard via video conference today, and Dr. Geiger from Ottawa, have continued to confirm that e-medicine, telehealth, etc., are excellent ways to provide care, to improve patient outcomes, and to save costs to the system.
I have heard lots of questions about costs to the system. Have you done any evaluation on how this improves patient outcomes?
We heard from other witnesses at the last meeting about the challenges they face. One of them is that not every part of Canada is connected. What do you intend to do about that? How do patients get connected? What about infrastructure for the patient and the community of nurses, nutritionists, and home care to help the patient and bring down hospital admissions?
Finally, there is the issue of privacy. Patients are worried that everybody is going to hack into the system and get all their information. Privacy is a big issue.