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Opinion: Health data needs to be connected and governments made accountable

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Summary
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75% Informative

Michael Wolfson : Connected Care for Canadians Act ( Bill C-72 ) is a critical step toward improving health of Canadians .

Wolfson says private sector vendors want to lock in hospitals or doctors’ offices to their own software.

Vested interests have so far successfully blocked significant progress to improve Canada ’s health data, he says.

He suggests three indicators are essential to measure success on health data interoperability.

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86

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90

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52

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

66

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medium-lived

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