A study done for Canada Health Infoway, the federally funded organization set up to monitor and improve the use of information technology across Canada's health care system, has found that increased use of electronic medical health records has saved $1.3 billion over the last six years.
Read more: CA: E-health records saved medical system $1.3B in 6 years
SSC – the newly formed federal agency tasked with consolidating the government’s IT portfolio – now has the authority to procure hardware and software to 106 federal departments and agencies.
“(This initiative) is part of the government’s overall strategy to achieve better value for money with respect to IT and builds on SSC’s mandate to modernize and transform the government’s email systems, data centres and networks,” SSC executives stated in a release issued April 9.
Read more: CA: Shared Services’ mandate expanded to include hardware
Government documents posted online Wednesday show that the Conservatives have given Shared Services Canada the mandate to buy end-user hardware and software for workers in the 43 federal agencies it serves, along with a handful of parliamentary watchdogs and other federal agencies. In all, Shared Services Canada will be in charge of buying end-user devices such as laptops and mobile devices, and software, including security software, for 106 federal organizations.
Read more: CA: Federal IT agency tasked with hardware procurement duties
The federal government won't be creating a new agency to buy electronic hardware for federal workers, electing instead to give the job to the IT super-agency it officially created last year.
Government documents posted online Wednesday show that the Conservatives have given Shared Services Canada the mandate to buy end-user hardware and software for workers in the 43 federal agencies it serves, along with a handful of parliamentary watchdogs and other federal agencies. In all, Shared Services Canada will be in charge of buying end-user devices such as laptops and mobile devices, and software, including security software, for 106 federal organizations.
An increasing number of physicians, nurse practitioners and a host of other health-care providers have adopted electronic medical record systems in recent years, but there are significant growing pains using the programs – a phenomenon that stretches across North America.
Read more: CA: Switch to e-records causing pain for Ontario doctors