Ontario falls short of goal to digitize all health records by end of 2015
Despite a 2015 deadline for all patients to have an electronic health record, only two-thirds of Ontarians have a digital medical file as the year draws to a close, according to the latest figures from eHealth Ontario. The agency was created in September 2008 to bring Ontario's health records into the digital age by this year. But just a year after that work began, eHealth was engulfed in a spending scandal that the province's former auditor general said cost taxpayers $1 bil