EHealth Ontario

For the superseding agency, see Ontario Health (agency).


eHealth Ontario was the agency tasked with facilitating the development of Ontario's proposed public Electronic Health Record system. Health Informatics in Canada is run provincially, with different provinces creating different systems, albeit sometimes under voluntary Pan-Canadian guidelines published by the federal body Canada Health Infoway. eHealth Ontario was created in September 2008 out of a merger between the Ontario Ministry of Health's electronic health program and the Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), with a mandate to create electronic health records for all patients in the province by 2015. It was plagued by delays and its CEO was fired over a multimillion-dollar contracts scandal in 2009.[1] eHealth Ontario was consolidated into Ontario Health in 2019.[2]

  1. ^ "Head of eHealth Ontario is fired amid contracts scandal, gets big package". CBC News. 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  2. ^ "Ford government creating Ontario Health super-agency". CBC News. Retrieved 8 September 2021.