Economic Efficiency of an Open-Source National Medical Lab Software in Canada.
Although the Canada federal government has invested over $3.1 billion developing health information technology (HIT), all 10 provinces still have their own separate HIT systems, which are non-interoperable, expensive, and inconsistent. After first reviewing how these systems operate, this paper anal...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 1 - 9 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2023
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