I have written numerous stories about the "eHealth" scandal. This sad story just keeps getting worse as more details are made public.
An important update from the Toronto Star.
EHealth operation bled $1B
Auditor's report slams
Ontario's bungled push
for e-records and cash
it threw at the problem
Sep 30, 2009
Tanya Talaga
Rob Ferguson
Robert Benzie
Queen's Park Bureau
The cost of Ontario's bungled push toward electronic health records for every patient ballooned to more than $1 billion as successive Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments scrambled to bring the system online, says a critical new auditor general's report into the eHealth Ontario spending scandal.
The Star has learned Auditor General Jim McCarter's probe, slated for release next week, blasts Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government for exacerbating problems that began under the previous Conservative administration and continuing a legacy of failure to modernize health records.
"It ain't pretty. This is not a happy tale," a senior official said Tuesday.
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