Thank you, Dr. Carrie.
You saw from the first presentation from Dr. Rossos that one of the first things Canada Health Infoway created was its architecture and blueprint. Quite frankly, if you don't follow that architecture and blueprint, we don't fund you. You have to follow the standards.
The issue when we got into this business is not to create health records that are specific to just a hospital or just a doctor's office or just a lab; it is about the patients. How do you bring all that information around the patient and have interoperability in those various systems?
Certainly if you follow the architecture and you follow standards, that will start to happen. I must say it's not an easy situation because a lot of the products out there are closed products. We have to incent the venders, and certainly the folks who are bringing on the venders, to make sure they open up the systems, that they can pull data in from the various systems and bring them together.
If you want a living laboratory, go to Alberta. No matter where you are in that province, they can pull up all your medication history, your lab results, your immunization, etc. That is a living example of integration and interoperability working.