Why did the Liberals seal a $300M failure for 30 years?
A $300M federal e-prescription program has been shut down and buried in secrecy for decades.
A parliamentary investigation into a failed $300-million federal e-prescription project has effectively vanished behind closed doors, with key committee discussions now sealed from the public until 2056.
PrescribeIT, an e-prescription service run by federally funded Canada Health Infoway, was cancelled earlier this year after handling less than 5 per cent of prescriptions, with fax and paper still dominating.
“The organization tasked with advancing digital health in Canada, the so-called experts in managing health information electronically, could not produce documents when parliament ordered them,” Conservative health critic Dan Mazier told reporters Jun. 18.
“If Infoway cannot handle a basic document request, Canadians are right to ask how it can be trusted with sensitive digital health data and the infrastructure of our country?”
