Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
My first question is for Dr. Price.
My colleague Colin Carrie asked a very good question about the standardization of electronic medical records. At first, your answer was not what I expected, but as you answered more questions, you provided more details. You said that you would like to see the federal government do something about how data is entered into that software.
In terms of applications such as OSCAR and MyHealth, which are developed in Canada, I think it is healthy for the companies to compete in the marketplace. All those applications can export data, but the problem is that they are not compatible with each other.
A number of years ago in my riding, when we started to develop electronic records, I was working in a clinic that wanted to implement a system like that. Since buying a program requires private clinics to make a large financial investment, the clinics want value for their money. They want to be able to read their patients' data and that of patients who were referred to them. The problem is that the data are not compatible, although they can be exported.
You mentioned
that the federal government should look at how we enter our data.
Since you know more about electronic records than I do, could you tell me how you think the federal government could contribute to make the data compatible from one software to another?