Public Accounts committee  That's actually the second part of the question I was getting to. A core business of Infoway is standards development around an architecture and a blueprint. It's very simple in our world. If we're going to fund a project, you have to use the standards. If you don't use the stand

Public Accounts committee  I'll answer the second part of the question first. The answer is no, there have been no objections. We've never had any contract disputes. As to the first part of your question, no, we do not have a fairness commissioner for contracts. We do have a board. We have board procedur

Public Accounts committee  To my knowledge, we haven't received any....

Public Accounts committee  I have definite information that when vendors don't win contracts, they're somewhat disappointed.

Public Accounts committee  The answer to both of those questions is no, we didn't receive any contrary or contentious arguments. This was brought to our attention, and we have amended those procedures now to make sure, right up front, we're transparent in saying that these contracts could get renewed.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for that insightful question. When I think about the job at hand, what information technology is going to be doing, it's really going to be transforming the health care system. It's going to be getting clinicians to work in completely different ways. The challenge for

Public Accounts committee  Actually, that's a twofold question. The first answer is that in the new reporting, we are going to be reporting not only aspects of availability, but also aspects of adoption. In the report that's coming out, I don't believe we will be reporting on use, mainly because I'm not co

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Dion. The short answer to that is yes, it was done. The longer answer to that is we had a board-approved policy that basically allowed us to go to market, which we did as an RFP, and basically get bids. What we didn't say in that RFP, which the Auditor General re

Public Accounts committee  Monsieur Dion, when you look at the goal, it's a two-part goal. The first part basically talks about the fact that by 2010, every single jurisdiction in the population they serve will benefit from the investment in one or more of the information systems. I can assure you, sir, th

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we're pretty confident that by 2016 we will have that number.

Public Accounts committee  That number really came out of a couple of studies that were undertaken—one by Booz Allen and the other by McKinsey. The number was premised on the fact that we're talking about the entire scope of the health care system—that is home care, long-term care, all the hospitals, docto

Public Accounts committee  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Chairman, thank you for providing us with this opportunity to speak to the committee today. As you stated earlier, with me is Mike Sheridan, Infoway's chief operating officer. Let me start by thanking the Auditor General of Canada and he

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I was terrified you were going to cut me off after my five minutes, so if you promise not to do that, I'll slow down.

Public Accounts committee  Sure. As a strategic investor, Infoway has developed, in consultation with our jurisdictional partners, the key requirements, the core components, and a blueprint to guide the pan-Canadian developments of EHR. Infoway's strategic plan identifies those priorities, along with mea

Health committee  Panorama is a system that is being built for the country. It's a system where B.C. took the leadership role on behalf of the country. It's the only system I know of where every single public health officer and chief information officer came to the table over several months, proba