Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses. I find the sessions we're having here so exciting because, as you were saying, it seems we're right at the precipice of getting all these things implemented.
We've had witnesses in the past, Dr. Price, from Health Infoway. One of the things they did tell us is that they do have standards and they do have requirements for interoperability between the provinces. I think, though, there are a lot of really good products out there, especially what you're talking about with OSCAR and what you're doing on the ground. It makes common sense that we should be doing that across the entire country.
Some of the frustration we have is that I know the federal government invests in a lot of this. I think you've received money from CIHR and Infoway yourselves in the past, haven't you? Here we have people on the ground such as you and the people you work with, and you're doing really good work, but then suddenly there is an obstacle to getting the technology implemented. As I said, we've had witnesses in the past, and it seems that Ontario and Quebec are having a really hard time getting things implemented, whereas I think in P.E.I. and Alberta they do have some electronic health records implemented already province-wide.
What are the obstacles to getting this technology implemented?
Were you in discussions with the provincial governments when you were gearing up with this technology?