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Digital health technology, such as electronic health records, is believed to enhance patient-centred care, improve integrated care and ensure financially sustainable health care. (Shutterstock)

Ontario’s digital health program has a data quality problem, despite billions in spending

Digital health can improve care, but in Ontario, health data are still fragmented, despite billions of dollars spent over the last two decades to enable fast and secure exchange of health information.
Making links is one thing, broken trust another. Indy Slug

Lack of trust, not privacy, underpins fears about care.data

Jonathan Freedland is right to argue the value of linking health datasets for information and research purposes, as the NHS’s care.data scheme plans to do with information for people living in England…

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