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Canada’s archaic health records system bad for your health: report

Public Policy Forum says all records should be paperless, digitally accessible to patients by 2028

When 30-year-old Greg Price had testicular cancer in 2011, his journey through the health-care system was plagued by a lack of communication between primary care doctors and specialists, leading to delays in diagnosis and treatment.

Previously healthy and athletic, Price died at age 31 — just over a year after a routine physical to renew his pilot’s licence found that a tube in his testicles known as the epididymis had thickened, which can be a symptom of testicular cancer.

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