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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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Jenny Kwan

NDP
“This bill lets the government fine health tech companies that break the rules. I want to know how we will make sure those fines are big enough to actually stop them from blocking health data, instead of companies just treating the fines as a normal cost of business.”
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Mr. Speaker, the bill would give the government the power to establish administrative monetary penalties for health IT vendors that do not comply. I wonder what would stop these penalties from simply being another cost of doing business. How can we ensure that the penalties are strong enough to actually deter data blocking?

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Jenny Kwan

NDP
“I want to know how we will protect people's privacy while sharing health data. The government must promise to include the Privacy Commissioner when writing the rules and security standards for this bill.”
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member could comment on how we can ensure that interoperability will not come at the expense of privacy and that the government commits to involving the Privacy Commissioner in developing the regulations and security standards under this legislation.

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