Health committee  Part of the notion of innovation and using technology is the spinoffs that benefit not just the patient but the whole economy. We did some work with the Conference Board of Canada based on the last grant we received from the federal government, which was $500 million. When you in

Health committee  The answer is yes, absolutely. We had set targets during the planning process of the program. We set the target at 9,000 clinicians. According to the current data, at the end of this fiscal year ending March 31, we will have 12,000 clinicians registered for our electronic health

Health committee  This was a clinical application within three hospitals in Vancouver.

Health committee  It's early days in this particular piece, but certainly the evaluation of the benefits and the actual implementation, use, etc., haven't been fully completed. We would want to see the results of that analysis. We also have a very similar project that's being put in place in Newf

Health committee  A privacy impact assessment was done prior to the investments by Infoway. The results of that didn't indicate anything particularly negative or problematic with respect to privacy.

Health committee  I'm not sure I'm intimately involved with the project, but certainly it is a pilot project. It was intended to show some innovation and adoption techniques. The innovation was to change the way reporting was being done, in this case in a neonatal unit, with the assumption that o

Health committee  As Mr. Alvarez said, EHR systems have not been implemented everywhere in Canada. Nevertheless, to give you some idea of the benefits to be had, I would just mention diagnostic imaging. According to the follow-up studies that have been, the productivity of radiologists has increas

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  In the case of the Canada Health Infoway, I think we need to understand that Infoway does not hold the data or hold the electronic health records or the information associated with it. That's a jurisdictional data and information holding.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  At Canada Health Infoway, the board is basically appointed by the members. The feds have two appointment positions on the board, one is a member, while the federal Deputy Minister of Health appoints the chair of the board. There are five members appointed from each of the five re

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The Auditor General made mention of no problem with regard to the Canada Health Infoway. Half of our work relates to pursuing the investment program process. Bill C-2 will not have much of an impact on our daily activities relating to reporting and investment programs.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  In terms of privacy, we have a privacy policy that we've instituted within the corporation itself. When we're dealing with privacy with respect to health records, it is the 14 different pieces of privacy legislation within the jurisdictions and the federal government that constit

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, I am pleased to be here this evening. The Canada Health Infoway is unique. Its aim, through its mandate and its structure, is to promote the development of electronic health records in a pan-Canadian context, so as to improve the quality, a