🇨🇦 Canada · 2009 · 💻 Tech & systems
A plan to put every patient’s records online. Ten years in, how much had gone in?
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
C$1 billion spent over about a decade
A billion dollars and the fax machine still won.
What actually happened
Ontario’s auditor general reported in 2009 that about $1 billion had been spent on electronic health records over roughly a decade, with too little to show for it and heavy use of consultants.
Source: Office of the Auditor General of Ontario ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.