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CPhA launches program to connect CPS info with tech tools pharmacists use every day
The program is planned to accommodate both new initiatives like AI-driven healthcare tools that are still being developed, and established platforms with an already significant user-base.
B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology
Ty Sperle is the first person known to have received and be cured by a treatment known as ‘prime editing,’ in a breakthrough by U.S.-based Prime Medicine reported in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine last December.

Why PrescribeIT failed: All the cost, none of the benefit for clinicians

Dr. Karim Keshavjee tells FHLIP conference that a lack of provider incentives—not technical flaws—killed Canada’s national e-prescribing system.
New federal data interoperability legislation good start but more needed

Canada’s leading health organizations warn that mandating data standards won't fix a fragmented system without dedicated funding, clinician support, and national compliance targets.
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Canadian doctors flock to OpenEvidence

Competition heats up as OpenAI, Anthropic launch competing products.
First HALO-enabled apps will revolutionize EMR functionality

Doctors will be able to download HALO-enabled healthcare apps to their EMRs from app stores managed by provincial health authorities.
PrescribeIT being shut down due to low adoption rates as Infoway looks to promote open e-prescribing standard

Canada Health Infoway says PrescribeIT ‘has not reached the scale required to support long-term sustainability,’ and will shut down the service on May 29, 2026.
PrescribeIT set to shut down in mid-2026, Globe and Mail reports

PrescribeIT, the federal e-prescribing tool designed to replace fax machines, is set to shut later this year, more than a year after the introduction of a controversial transaction fee.
Artificial intelligence is naturally stupid

Along with the many benefits of AI software, there is, of course, potential for harm.

CPhA launches program to connect CPS info with tech tools pharmacists use every day

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology

Why PrescribeIT failed: All the cost, none of the benefit for clinicians

New federal data interoperability legislation good start but more needed

Solve my problem: How do I make my EMR work for me instead of slowing me down?

Canadian doctors flock to OpenEvidence

First HALO-enabled apps will revolutionize EMR functionality

PrescribeIT being shut down due to low adoption rates as Infoway looks to promote open e-prescribing standard

PrescribeIT set to shut down in mid-2026, Globe and Mail reports

Artificial intelligence is naturally stupid