The Conservative Party is seeking a committee investigation into government contracts related to a soon-to-be-cancelled IT program for doctors, which reportedly cost $250 million to develop and operate.
The program, PrescribeIT, was meant to make it easier for doctors to renew prescriptions by instantly sending drug prescriptions to pharmacies, but the program is set to be shut down at the end of May 2026 due to low adoption rates.
According to Canada Health Infoway, a federally funded not-for-profit that operates PrescribeIT, the program will be replaced with a “national e-prescribing standard” that it hopes other health technology companies will adopt.
The Liberal government has said that not enough doctors and patients used the program to make it viable….