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Connected Care for Canadians Act

Bill S-5, Connected Care for Canadians Act · Second reading · now at second reading in the House Where it stands

What Bill S-5 would do

The bill would require health information technology licensed, sold, or provided as a service by vendors to be interoperable. It would also prohibit these vendors from blocking data. The published material gives no further detail.

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Helena Konanz

Conservative
“Canadians have lost trust in government health programs after the government wasted $300 million on a digital prescription program. We must rebuild that trust before we start new health programs like this one.”
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Mr. Speaker, I think there are a lot of things that Canadians are looking for in their health care system, but what they are really looking for is trust. They want to be able to trust everyone in the House. They want to be able to trust the system. If they cannot depend on a program, for example, PrescribeIT, which wasted $300 million, run by Infoway, how can they trust any new program that comes forward from the Liberals? We need to, as a House, rebuild the trust of the entire Canadian people and put in new programs like those described in Bill S-5. We need to first rebuild the trust that has been lost by the public, which has read and learned about what has happened with the scandal of PrescribeIT and Infoway.

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