The province still has one of the lowest rates of doctors using electronic record and the system is still not fully integrated with the electronic record system used by hospitals and other health-care settings. The main goal of the system was to share patient information from doctors' offices with the province's larger digital health record system. The province contracted the delivery of the medical record program to the medical society in 2012. After the province ended Velante's exclusivity in 2019, it agreed to give the medical society $3 million to help doctors adopt other electronic medical record systems. Among provinces that have adopted electronic medical records, only Newfoundland and Labrador had a lower rate of doctors using them as of 2017.

Source: CBC News February 23, 2021 14:14 UTC