Digital health tools must remain a core part of Canada’s post-pandemic health care delivery system

Two key deficits in our health-care system became evident when social distancing necessitated virtual care nearly overnight for the sake of infection control: information system availability and the robustness of our backup remote systems.

This broken system must end now, writes Will Falk. A recent report for Health Canada calls for regulatory changes that would force several key systems to be available digitally by April 1, 2023. We can start with three: labs, drugs, and patient record summaries. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY WILL FALK

January 6, 2022

Paper health care records have been a danger to both patients and providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been able to get my 85-year old mother’s banking and bills online to keep things up to date. I could even do her taxes and basic government functions onli...

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