{"id":208551,"date":"2026-05-04T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/canadas-fragmented-electronic-health-records-harm-patients-and-cost-taxpayers-billions-new-research\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:50:16","slug":"canadas-fragmented-electronic-health-records-harm-patients-and-cost-taxpayers-billions-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/canadas-fragmented-electronic-health-records-harm-patients-and-cost-taxpayers-billions-new-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s fragmented electronic health records harm patients and cost taxpayers billions: New research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-fragmented-electronic-health-records-harm-patients-and-cost-taxpayers-billions-new-research-280798\">Canada\u2019s fragmented electronic health records harm patients and cost taxpayers billions: New research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-fragmented-electronic-health-records-harm-patients-and-cost-taxpayers-billions-new-research-280798\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-fragmented-electronic-health-records-harm-patients-and-cost-taxpayers-billions-new-research-280798<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 12:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decades ago, Canada&#8217;s health systems transitioned from paper charts to electronic health records (EHRs), but the implementation has been fragmented and disjointed across different provinces and territories.<\/li>\n<li>Current EHR systems are siloed, operating in isolated software programs that prevent the seamless flow of patient information from place to place and from provider to provider, hindering safe and effective care.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of standardization, as vendors competed for market share without regard for interoperability, is costing taxpayers an estimated $9.4 billion annually and hindering health-system improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Ideally, patient information should be standardized and follow the patient across different locations and services to provide coordinated care. Yet, Canada&#8217;s implementation has missed the mark, leading to a situation where clinicians struggle to access necessary patient information through outdated methods such as faxing and mailing.<\/li>\n<li>The Connected Care Scorecard developed as part of this research highlights stark differences in interoperability among provinces and territories, with British Columbia struggling due to numerous incompatible systems and Prince Edward Island performing well with a unified platform.<\/li>\n<li>Ineffective EHR integration not only wastes resources but also prevents health systems from leveraging AI technologies for improved diagnostics and care planning due to gaps in comprehensive and accurate patient data.<\/li>\n<li>The federal government&#8217;s Connected Care for Canadians Act is a positive step towards requiring common data exchange standards, but it calls for more substantial action at all levels of government to integrate fragmented EHRs and establish clear accountability for oversight.<\/li>\n<li>The main challenge now is connecting existing EHR systems rather than adopting them, in order to maximize the benefits and avoid further health-care inefficiencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s fragmented electronic health records harm patients and cost taxpayers billions: New research https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-fragmented-electronic-health-records-harm-patients-and-cost-taxpayers-billions-new-research-280798 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/733121\/original\/file-20260429-57-aq9jny.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C83%2C1920%2C960&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208553,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208551\/revisions\/208553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}